I guess that just points out the difference in modding communities, then? I try not to worry much about it either, but with AC being more or less the only sim in town unless you count the dwindling GTR2/GT Legends scene that gave us the originals of these mods in the first place, seeing such a reduced interest in classic sports and race cars of the '60s-'90s does feel hard for me to just get over. It's not that I don't like the modern stuff -- far from it; I can hotlap all day every day in the latest GT4s -- it's that the modern stuff is readily available in pretty much every sim there is, while we'd be lucky to get 25% of the cars featured in the Brickyard Legends Mod Group 5 Era project or Virtua_LM's Group C collection. (And when we do get those cars, most of the time it's just superficially-improved versions of the old ones.) I don't think you're wrong at all in observing that people will mod what they like (or what they can get reliable crowdfunding money for), I guess I was just spoiled by the potential I saw with those older titles when I first started really exploring PC sim racing in the mid-2010s.
i think the real problem is that "we" that use AC as an Actual Sim are becoming a rarety.
I take the more optimistic approach,
I'd suspect demographics play a part as well. Those of us who can remember watching 917's blasting down a non-chicaned Mulsanne are really going to get our mojo flowing when we get to do that in the sim. Likewise any year you'd care to mention... Of course there's going to be exceptions to that - with all ages appreciating great cars, but it's also only natural that younger users are going to be attracted to the latest, and greatest. I know I was when those 917's were rolled out...
Fair point, it sounds like I'm younger than you but I bet I'm still older than at least half the AC userbase. (For context, the first racing game I really remember as a kid was the original arcade Pole Position, and my late teens/early twenties were all about the Sega sit-down cabinets and the first Gran Turismo.) But I also have a real fascination with the stuff from before I was born, too, including the original heyday of the 917s, the GT40/Ferrari wars, the Cobra vs. Stingray rivalries, way back to the Le Mans battles of the '50s. I guess there's a certain level of geekery involved here, and considering how much deeper a lot of other gamer/modder communities go, I do hold out hope that AC (like Paintbox posted) is going to be able to cultivate that kind of dedication. Especially if the sequel is able to build off what's already been made so far.I'd suspect demographics play a part as well. Those of us who can remember watching 917's blasting down a non-chicaned Mulsanne are really going to get our mojo flowing when we get to do that in the sim. Likewise any year you'd care to mention... Of course there's going to be exceptions to that - with all ages appreciating great cars, but it's also only natural that younger users are going to be attracted to the latest, and greatest. I know I was when those 917's were rolled out...
I just yesterday purchased about 8 mods from 1st studio racing, they had some ace Brazilian VW's and i got them all plus some other stuff, all like £2.50 or £1.80, and it was really refreshing to do it that way, none of this patroen stuff, just clear simple, this is what you get.
i'm the same: my first type of racing games even being 22 years old. I was for PS2 and PS1s: BTCC 1997, F1 1995, Toca Race Driver 1 (BTCC DTM and V8SC 2001 on PS2 but DTM and V8SC 2002 for PC). then got to AC and realised how much the modding scene has grown from games like Rfactor, Sportscar GT. I was also one for the cabinet/arcade racers. I was always key to have fun and do these type of races again to relive some memories and do races that I never got to see but got to see in game like F1 1995, Le mans 2000 etc. Hell even as older as my own parents for crying out loud it just shows that with the right dedication some things you never got to see can come true. Like how I've been working on some le mans 2000 cars for AC.
It depends by the content provided by the Patreons. Modding is a time consuming things to do (most of the time in spare time).
Some guy was working on new models for some early 90s GrC cars - like the XJR-14, TS010, etc.
It's all about fascination and passion towards the era here... I have a lot of love towards it.
You just made my day! I can finally have everything well ordered by brands and also by categoriesReally nice idea and awesome icons. Could I use them in my mod: https://www.racedepartment.com/down...tegories-and-flags-for-content-manager.28714/ with crediting you, of course?
I have improved it a little. This way, it is not absolutely necessary to tag the cars.
Also, I put this decade stuff into an extra file. I will share this if you give me the rights to do so.
My categories currently look like this, without the cars tagged with decades. It just took the years of the cars. Some decades are missing because I seem to be missing some cars from that era.
I reinstalled my AC on a small SSD a while ago, and then I'm more of a track guy.
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As promised, the link is updated with a new version that has a properly done and better looking digital leaderboard. If you didn't have a problem with the look of the leaderboard in the old version, no need to update. Nothing else really changed. Shouldn't need to do another update until I make some significant changes and that won't be for awhile.
I cannot thank you enough for your effort.
I've put the CM exe there now as well, but before I ran it from somewhere else (D:\CM\ folder ) , and that seemed to work fine too...
New car, track categories and flags for Content Manager v0.5
As promised, I have combined @Paintbox's idea of the category list separated into decades, with my old mod that I posted on RD.
So, credits for the decades stuff goes totally to @Paintbox. Thanks, for the permission to use in my mod.
The decades can be used with the tagging of the cars, as @Paintbox did, or simply the year of the cars is used.
This way it is more convenient for all of you. 😁
Location to extract is here:
c:\Users\yourname\AppData\Local\AcTools Content Manager\
(Windows 10: press "Start" and enter %LocalAppData%)
Please backup your old folder (c:\Users\yourname\AppData\Local\AcTools Content Manager\) first, if you want to revert it back later to the original status.
For whatever reason...🤪
Great works! Many Thanks!New car, track categories and flags for Content Manager v0.5
As promised, I have combined @Paintbox's idea of the category list separated into decades, with my old mod that I posted on RD.
So, credits for the decades stuff goes totally to @Paintbox. Thanks, for the permission to use in my mod.
The decades can be used with the tagging of the cars, as @Paintbox did, or simply the year of the cars is used.
This way it is more convenient for all of you. 😁
Location to extract is here:
c:\Users\yourname\AppData\Local\AcTools Content Manager\
(Windows 10: press "Start" and enter %LocalAppData%)
Please backup your old folder (c:\Users\yourname\AppData\Local\AcTools Content Manager\) first, if you want to revert it back later to the original status.
For whatever reason...🤪
This is mainly what you should get after installing this baby. I hope you enjoy it:
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EDIT: Lol, right after posting this update and watching the screenshots, I realized, I could have use this decades stuff for tracks too. I´m such an idiot (sometimes)... 🤪
To get the decades in tracks too, drop the file inside "more by decades for tracks.zip" into the track's folder, or just redownload "Data (User)_v0.51.zip".
Thanks. I've been trying a few combinations and got some real nice skins.
