Oh thanks so much! I really appreciate that feedback! It does take some effort for sure. A lot of trial and error.😅 Hope to get back at it again soon. I just have been enjoying the summer a lot. Thanks again, really made my day. 🍻

Thanks! Not sure what number plates you are referring to? The numbers on the doors or on the hood of the car would all be customizable in your design. Sometimes there are window names/numbers depending on the template/car model. This is a bit more complex as you need to export the proper dds file to be used for “WINDOWS” and update the xml to add in the line that loads windows or windscreen dds overrides. Glad I helped you with the video :).

Any luck yet? Make sure to restart rf2 for any new content to get loaded. Great guy Paul has a vid here that might help. Skip to 2.30 section where he shows selecting series/cars. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m5d4e6eftK-8YI0.htmlsi=hKfmtn1B4pMWj6Ah Hope that helps. Keep me posted. :)

Thanks for the comment! Hoping Reiza still has improvements coming for us.

Crew Chief app has a spotter and crew chief. I don’t use the ams2 in game spotter. Just Crew Chief. Hope that helps :)

Only certain cars have different color rims available. I’m not sure of them all but the BMW M1 has multiple wheel colors you can apply. The default xml file for the cars will have instructions in them to apply different rims.

Thanks Kevin! I’m interested to see how they drive once the next update comes from Reiza!

Sometime I need to add the 'outtakes' to the ends of the videos lol! You will hear a much less composed commentary! Thanks for firing in the first comment Matt, appreciate all you regulars around here :)

That is such a tough combo. It's nice seeing all the camera views your trail braking is so smooth. Great job Kevin 👍

@@SSRacer_UK thanks man! I have been really enjoying walls lately it seems. Long Beach, Monaco and Montreal are all tough!

Thanks appreciate it! For the replays I make sure they are saved post race, then I just usually use the trackside footage and record the playback with OBS. Then I time it using the starting grid lights to match it up in Adobe Premiere. I don’t get too many glitches luckily. The trackside cameras sometimes are not great though for some tracks.

@@kevin_m Yeah... I have been having trouble with Suzuka and a few others... I started a championship to upload and when I went to record the footage, the timings and track-side cameras were broken :( Also the pit crews many times are standing on the main straight... After so many "fixes and updates" I feel kind of disappointed at the devs because I really like this game and the bugs I mentioned and a few others ruin the whole experience for me. Thanks for the answer and good luck with your channel!

@@subjektivegaming omg ya pit crew standing right in the road! That needs to be fixed! I hope Reiza is bothered by these bugs as much as we are.

Appreciate that feedback Matt! Jealous you’re able to just drive to go see these races! I’d love to attend Oulton or Brands sometime.😀

Oh hey!!! So glad you saw the vid! BTCC is my favourite racing series and I tune in for every qualifying session and all 3 races each round. Being in Canada I have to wake up early on race days but it’s worth it! Fantastic work on the mod! 👍

@jimmycoupe8021 Bobby Thompson is back! Another BMW livery to put together for you I think eh!?😃 btcc.net/bobbys-back-thompson-joins-zeus-cloud-racing-with-wsr/

@@kevin_m Yes fantastic news for BTCC, expect him to appear in the pack as soon as I can see his livery. In the mean time enjoy the post brands update released this evening. Its a pretty big sponsor and quality update, many of the fixes and corrections were only possible with Scott Sumpton's help 🙂

@@jimmycoupe8021 oh amazing ok I have some time tomorrow to try it out! If I do a race video I should go with Sumpton’s Leon!

Hey Jay, ya great work by the creators and free too! Always a bonus. Hope all is well.🍻

​@@kevin_m can't go wrong with free 😅 I'm good man thanks, really can't wait for all the cars in AMS2 to be updated, hopefully you're good on your side of the world

Spring has sprung and it’s starting to warm up! 1.6 is going to be a nice little upgrade to ams2 I think!

I really appreciate that! I’m glad at least you found the video and enjoyed it! 😄 Thanks for stopping by!

Thanks Carlos! I had a few understeer moments where I went wide on corner exit but I was really pushing and on the standard setup. Maybe some tuning would help with that.

You’ll have to plan another championship Timo!

Thx Matt! You might surprise yourself w this combo. I really like the other early nineties layouts Reiza has added too. The bat file is great, better than opening the xml and editing it manually!

Oh Owen who gives a hoot! Free world mate I’ll be checking your vid out later if work ever f’s off. 😅

The time trial record is really quick! 117.500 or something if I remember! Saw your vid too Mike, quite a race!

Absolutely SS! I’m really enjoying learning about f1 history using the mods and making the videos!

Kev ha ya I had 2x tire wear on, plus I probably had tc too low as in the vid you can see the rears lighting up out of the corners!!!😅

Ya once you find the spots around a lap where ai is weak you can really exploit them. Ai has come a long way, hopefully Reiza keeps at it.

Oh thanks for that info! There are a lot of values in that file you could tweak and probably mess up if you go the wrong direction with any of them.

Right, the model has to have the material in it and ability to specify a dds file/texture to it. Not all cars have things like banners, windows, window numbers, different color wheel rims etc. Best trick is to find a really well done skin pack of the model you want to use and open the xml file and check the dds files that come with it. You’ll see the files and paths needed.

@@kevin_m I have been working on the BMW M6 GT3 and an auto banner shows up from inside. It even had the banner info in the _dist.xml file. But you can't adjust it and see if form inside the car. Lots of the people I do liveries for are KZfaqrs and want their name/channel visible on the banner while driving. It's too bad, so easy to do yet they leave it out of lots of cars.

@@BOTRacing yes I think I had the same problem with the Porsche GTE. No way to override the inner window.

Thanks man!

By “changing to dds” I’m not sure what you mean. I googled and see that you should be able to “export as dds” from gimp itself. Dxt1 for body and Dxt5 for spec (supports alpha). A white car or red car often means there is a path problem in the xml file. Make sure you don’t have any remaining “commenting” brackets in your new xml and that ams2 can follow the paths in the xml to see your dds files for the livery ID you are trying to override. Keep me posted. If need be I can send you a discord invite and I could take a look at your files. 🙂

Thx for the reply. I opened up Gimp and exported the file saving it to a .dds. And making it a BC1 compression (or whatever...I forgot). Now the car is black. I noticed my livery file....now in the "Timo Race Team Folder.... Looks black as well, with none of my design elements showing. I am a Creative Director by trade, and being from Indianapolis, I have done many liveries over the years.....all on Macs. This Window stuff is new to me. Thank you for your patience 😅. I am open to a discord chat. Open most evenings and all day Weds and Fridays thru Sunday

@@TimCrist busy tonight but free later this week. Ping when/if you get into discord here: discord.gg/GCWA8Rd

Success!!!!! Thanks for helping us all with the vid. I'll send a pic when I tweek it a bit. Thx!

@@TimCrist oh great news! Ok keep me posted have fun with it!

Really appreciate the comment! Yes ams2 has improved a lot. Very cool about your races, did you do the full distance or a percentage? I have decided a 45 to 50 min replica race works out for a video like this. It’s a lot to edit but I’ll try to make more as they are fun to do!

@@kevin_m I did 40/50 minutes for endurance races and 20/25 for sprint races. I tend to do shorter lately, as you said it's a lot to edit.

@@Racer63. oh cool subscribed. I’ll check out your races!

Try Feb 10 for the date which would be summertime in Ecuador. The environment will be different during the seasons. Some tracks you’ll see trackside frost in the winter even! Let me know if that works for you.

Yes I believe it’s the boost function you map to whatever button you prefer to use. Try it out and let me know though! I’ll double check later myself too. Thanks for stopping by!

@kevin_m I will try it out tomorrow and report back to you, thank you so much 🫡😉

Yeap, it's the boost button that does the p2p

@@zebraafs nice thanks for confirming!

Oh good news Owen glad you’re really feeling an improvement with the update! I didn’t notice a huge difference myself but it’s been a while since I’ve been in any of the stock cars. I was able to compete at high difficulty side by side w ai so I must have been getting the info I needed at the wheel! 👊

@@kevin_m I think your wheel setup and custom ffb files don't see as much of an improvement (there alrady v good) than you see on the lesser wheels, The extra grip and nore distinct edge of grip shines through for me.

@@hereward1971 ah ya. Great news then for lower powered bases if there is more detail coming through. I have my old g27 kicking around that I bet would still get the job done!

Agree you can have a lot of fun making your own skins for these! I hope the mixed weather racing improves a bit in the future, I struggle with it myself in certain situations. Thx for the comment!

Thx Dan! Ya and this car can all the sudden bite back too if you start to oversteer. Once it starts going around it’s really hard to stop it from rotating!

Ya I got some good door to door action on lap 3!

Lolol! That math checks out I think? 😅

Let me know if you think they are less slidey for you Kev, I didn’t find they drive a whole lot differently than the previous model.

Thx! I watched the full 88 race yesterday. Boy the commentators had it wrong at the start when they guessed the new regulations would heavily hinder the turbo cars vs the NA. Senna Prost - “hold my beer”.

Thanks Mike! Ok I’ll get back to editing then! 🫡😄

Thanks for the comment. I mix up the difficulty level for sure to try and make for a good race while also doing the voiceover. In the latest vid I used 120% difficulty. I didn’t pass very many drivers in that one! 😅

Subscribed!

@@GoSolarPlz awesome!

Ya same! New stock car will be cool. Want to see how that handles!

Failure filled lol! You’re right! Thanks Ralonso! 😄

This is all pretty new to me making videos, so it wasn’t me! Cool about the vids you saw though, let me know if that channel is still around and I’ll go check it out! Thanks a lot for the comment and good to know you like the format. I’m working on 50% length type races as well but longer videos may not be for everyone. I’ll make them anyway! To heck with the algorithm. 😂

Ah my bad! Channel is called Return to Life and it’s a 1988 season they did 🙂 I’m up for longer videos! When they’re as well produced and immersive as yours they fly by. Reminds me of my sim racing days before parenthood took away my time and money 😅

@@Kiroquai ok great! Real life for me gets busy too with full time job etc. Stay tuned for round one, I’m trying to wrap it up this weekend.🍻

Morning Roddy hope all is well out west! Keep at it and let me know when you take over top spot! 😁🏁

This is something I have only had very little experience with but I can suggest the TAMS2SP discord channel (discord.gg/unEUv37KxQ) for access to a great community who might be able to help out.🙂

@@kevin_m thank you, I’m trying to edit the 2022 F1 car at the moment lol 🙌

@@kevin_m when trying to edit the f1 car the car just become plain white… no idea why

@@CreedM8 a car turning solid red, or white in the showroom, is 99% a problem in the xml file and the paths used to the dds files. Double check your xml and remember to restart ams2 to reload the new xml.

@@kevin_myea I’ve double checked and followed you exactly, still just entirely white. I’ll keep troubleshooting 😂

Agree regarding the constant force on understeer. It’s the one thing that is still present for me even when increasing the static force reduction in true drive. Thanks for your feedback and experience with custom ffb!

@@kevin_m That's a real shame, would be perfect if only you could feel the grip loss from the fronts . Oh well, will keep looking.

@@andyw0340 it might be worth me asking if there is anything Daniel suggests aside from increasing static force reduction to help bring back front end grip loss. File is really good otherwise!

@@kevin_m Yes I have on previous versions but it's the way he likes it so fair enough.

I’ve followed the game since the start, it’s really improved over time, and Reiza seems dedicated to further improvements. The Karts are not fun for me either. Thanks for the comment!

Thanks! It’s a good challenge keeping it on track here!

Jay I’ve had some fun w RR as well! Ai is pretty decent in that. For my 1988 champ I’m considering vids for it but not sure. It would be a lot of work to edit and space hog for the hard drives! 😅 Maybe I’ll find a way to do it though. Like recap/highlights? Hmm.

What I like with the peripheral view of triples is that you have a really good sense of when you can cut back in front and return to the racing line. Have a great week Dan!

@@kevin_m yeah I miss mines. I may set it up again : )