Australian Motorsport Simulation Modding Association - AMSMA

05/05/2023

Hey everyone,
It's been a little bit since I've said anything about the mod. but I think its time I say something regarding progress.

Don't worry, I'm not cancelling the mod.

Though what I am doing for now is dropping support for rFactor. With the amount of work that is in converting between rFactor 1 and Automobilista 1 and making sure that everything that works in rFactor works in Automobilista 1 and vice versa, I believe that it is a good idea to drop support for now and focus on one game, then at the end I can backport and focus on one game at a time.

Truth is though is that the rFactor platform is limited in its capability. Automobilista 1 is better handling, performing and looking than its predecessor, and for now Automobilista 1 is the main game that I work with. Working on both at the same time is quite taxing for what I'm doing, especially now that I have a lot going on in life with the purchase of a new house and all

Realistically, I'd rather work on it for one game and do it right than work on it for two games at the same time and do it rushed.

I Hope you all understand

So for now, I'm going to have a crack at working on this again.
-Higgo.

13/02/2023

Hey AMSMA fans, we need a help for a logo.
What is the green logo on the back bumper?
This car is the #76 2002 Holden VX Commodore, driven at Queensland 500 by Andrew Miedecke and Tony Quinn.

25/12/2022

Hey all. Apologies for this but the template for the AU Falcons may be wrong. I'll upload the correct ones tomorrow 🙂

24/12/2022

Hey All
First off I want to preface this by saying merry Christmas and I hope you all get the good presents under the tree this year (hopefully this being one of them).

Now, to business.

I want to thank everyone for the spurring on you've all been giving me to get up off my ass and get something out.
I can now proudly say I have something good enough to release.
If I could go back and tell my past self something, I would tell him "don't bite off more than you can chew". either way, I'm proud of where I have gotten this to so far.

It's quite scuffed, there's a lot to make right in updates, the sounds are not where I want them to be, the in car camera is the only one that works, but its something to show for the 3 and a bit years of work not only I but the rest of the AMSMA team have put into this. it currently only features Mark Larkham's 1999 AU, the 99 HRT car and the 2002 Green Eyed Monster, but as time goes on and more updates come, that will change. templates are included however.

I won't lie, dead tired, 4 AM brain Higgo shed a tear writing this up, purely because of the amount of work that has gone into this so far, and the fact that I have devoted the better part of the last 3 and a bit years of my life to this project.

Again, I want to thank you all for being patient for as long as you have. I also want to thank the team that has stood behind me for as long as they have.

I present to you all,
AMSMA's 5 Litre Tourer Mod
Links:
rFactor: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d6v6DyiWh8v9lq3bu8ou4zi5CcUqkJ9j/view?usp=share_link
Automobilista: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dU1Ld3mjRQbMpj0jZTi49Z8k1y5FN1Ih/view?usp=share_link

18/09/2022

So... It's been a minute since the last proper update, and since then the gameplan has changed slightly. From now on, the AU, VT and VX Will be released as a precursor to everything else. These cars are the most complete. the Physics behind these machines will be ORSM physics with a tweak in engine data, gearbox data, weight, inertia etc. to values that are more in line with the series regulations, as ive gained access to CAMS Manuals and V8 Supercars Operation Manuals.

What about the other cars you may ask?

Well that's why the decision has been made to backflip and release the later cars first.
When the project started, I didn't really have a road plan as to what I really wanted to achieve, it was more just slap it together and see what happens, but now that I know I can do so much better with the experience I've gained over the 3 or so years I have been doing modding, I know I have the skillset to make the earlier cars (everything AU and VT Down) much much much better than they currently are, which is why the executive decision has been made to redo the models for the vehicles that pre-date the AU and VT.

Thankyou for being as patient as you all have been with me and the rest of the team, the lack of a download link to show for all the effort that's been put in is wholly on me and no one else. Everyone else has pulled their weight and thrown in tons of effort, but I have been the main reason its taken as long as it has to get to this point.

23/06/2022

Hey all. I feel I should make a post addressing the quiet that's been emanating from the page for quite some time now.

To be completely truthful the start of this year has been that busy that I slowly started to lose the motivation to work on the mod, as I have been snowed under with work from a new opportunity.

To clarify. This mod isn't dead. Every now and then there will be slow patches where things will crawl to a halt because I'm not able to work something out, or I am progressing on something that is more urgent, as I have been splitting time between this and other ventures behind scenes.

The main issue I'm having at this point is gathering data for physics. The physics I thought would have been the final physics were fundamentally broken, and it was going to be quite a task to fix them without real life data. As well as this, I am still to learn about what 90 percent of the values do in an rfactor physic file. We have engine data for later vehicles, but not much aero data, which is where we are lacking.

I do however want to thank the team of skinners and people who have been handing out tidbits of information to try to help progress, you all know who you are, and it does not go unappreciated.

This mod isn't dead, we're just taking the time to get it right

Regards,
Higgo

22/04/2022

2000 #57 - Chris Butler/Miles Andrew Pope
STATUS: LOOK FOR BETTER PICS.
When doing the 2000 year series, V8Skinner as usual started from the backmarkers first.
Trevor Crittenden Motorsport's entry for Bathurst 2000 is one of the cases where the team and the car seems disappeared from memory.
Type the team, and you find some writings, but no photos. Not even from the official FB page, no drivers, no nothing.
All we could find by pure accident was this 185x113 pixels thumbnail picture, that is from another round and with another number ( #127, not #57). If that's not enough, the Konica Series (as super2 was called back in the day) actually had a #57 Holden run by the Trevor Crittenden's team, but the drivers were none of the ones that raced at Bathurst, yet the windscreen strip still says "Butler", and while there was a #127 car raced by Butler, it belonged to a different team, so this picture can't be used to identify the #57 Bathurst entry.
While trying to figure out all this chaos, we noticed that the #57 Bathurst entry only did Practice 1, and no laptime was recorded, possibly crashing or breaking down.
V8Skinner's personal rule is that a car that didn't make it to the race CAN be painted, but it's not mandatory, since photos could be impossible to find (actually sometimes you can find pictures, but this is not the case).
Because of this, the only possible conclusion is to ignore this car, thus dodging a major headache.

20/02/2022

Good news all! A new and improved revised AU Falcon is nearing completion!

19/02/2022

Good News Everyone! im back and swinging, i have upgraded most of the cars to the format that allows the cars to load, and all i have to do now is trim up the EB, EF, EL, VP, VR and VS, and 1993-1997 will pretty much be done model wise.

17/11/2021

Hey all! i know its been quiet recently with not much activity, and i apologise for that. real life got in the way a lot with the work myself and my team are trying to do. fear not though, as the project is very much still alive. the VL has just been put in game today, and i am working on getting skins and upgrades done properly and ready. our very talented painters have painted so far over 650 skins and windows for the mod, and we still havent even covered 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002!

to cut to the chase though, 1993 is almost complete in the 5 litre department, with 2 liter cars to come at a later date as an addon pack, as things are still being smoothed out there.

but 1993 is pretty much done model wise, its now just a task of getting things ready with upgrades, physics, veh files and skins/windows.

Stay tuned, as a 2 and a half year long vision will soon become a released reality

24/10/2021

Hey all!!
YES!
We're still Alive!
I have decided to start working on the VN From Scratch!
1993 and 1994 is on its way!!

01/09/2021

1996 #10 Ford Falcon EF, driven by Mark Larkham for Larkham Motor Sport Archives

19/08/2021

1995 Ford Falcon EF, driven by Tony Longhurst for Tony Longhurst Castrol Racing

01/07/2021

#98 Gary Baxter - 1999 Phillip Island
STATUS: BETTER PHOTOS NEEDED
This driver only raced at Phillip Island 99, and was one of the many drivers that steered this Holden VS during the year.
No photos exist online and of the few times that this car is seen during the race, this is the best shot, which is just ok, but we would like to know with no doubt what exactly is on the sides of the car.
If you can, please help us.

14/06/2021

#34 Bruce Stewart/Darren Stewart 1993.
STATUS: COMPLETED.
We all know the #33 Pro-Duct VP Commodore, but who knows that at Bathurst 1993 Pro-Duct showed up with two cars? We didn't.
This car should have raced at Bathurst, but didn't. Get ready, this is tricky.
Usually with non starting car you have issues, but sometimes you can find good pictures anyway, like with #43 Leeson's 1993 Bathurst, whose pictures are not hard to find despite the car didn't race. Yet, it was unclear what happened with this team. According to wikipedia, #33 was raced by Pearson, Bruce Stewart and Phil Ward, this one in italics, but #34 was raced by Bruce Stewart (yes, same guy) and Darren Stewart.
We thought that probably Ward withdrew from the race and that Bruce Stewart filled the vacant spot on #33.
Yet, since we found some incorrections with the ATCC 1993 wiki page, we wanted to know if this car really ever existed, because no pictures are available, and we found strange that while the #33 is famous, nobody knows the #34 or even mentioned it.
Thanks to V8 Sleuth's page https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/pro-duct-vn-commodore-on-track/
we discovered that Pro-Duct effectively had two cars in 1993.
But where did it race in 1993 except Bathurst? We checked for the 1993 AMSCAR Series and incredibly in the first minute it was shown. It's exactly the same of the #33 car. That grainy out of res screenshot proves it. And since vynil wrap was rare or still not used for the whole cars in 1993, we think those two cars used exactly the same livery.
We have debunked some unfindable liveries, but this is the first time that we ended up questioning if the car really existed, but we've discovered that AMSCAR Series in this case was the solution, and from now on we'll check there too if any new unfindables are shown.

11/06/2021

We are rectifying some issues in the VP Commodores (Check out the front bumper), but it's not that hard.
In this picture, #20 Ian Palmer's 1994 VP Commodore - Lakeside livery.

25/05/2021

#31 - James Philip 1994
STATUS: COMPLETED.
This driver only raced at Sandown (regular round, not the 500 enduro), and never again.
Here the problem is that you can sort of see the livery in race, but the resolution is really bad, and while we are able to see the writing on the front bumper and the "Burnett's" logo on the bonnet using a bit of logic, everything on the sides is simply unreadable.

24/05/2021

#48 - Twigden 1993
STATUS: COMPLETED.
This driver raced only at Lakeside 93 and never again. It was a livery that gave us a real hard time finding it, because the driver is not on FB, no pictures exist anywhere, he didn't have a team, and like Grant Johnson, his name is only on the entry list of this round and nowhere else.
Fortunately when we watched the Lakeside 93 race, they showed shortly this car when it was lapped. Usually you don't get good pictures of it, but incredibly we found good ones. From this we learned a lesson: with these backmarkers you have a much better chance of finding their cars when they are being lapped during the race, than looking for pictures on internet.
The funny thing is that the speakers' said something like "This one is... er... uhm... (short silence)... TWIGDEN!". We chuckled when we heard that. It's like nobody ever knew that Mike Twigden was racing in that round!

23/05/2021

Hey all! good news!
the VP's Shaders are nigh on complete, and im about to finalise the physics, upgrades and the like for the 1993 and 1994 seasons. i apologise for the wait, as most of time ive been working on this has been mainly taken up by rectifying mistakes that i made as a novice modder, and making changes to overall improve the mod.

22/05/2021

#22 John English - 1993.
STATUS: COMPLETED.
Raced in 1993 at Eastern Creek and Oran Park. 2 rounds, 4 races, but he could only race in 2 of them (quote: racing-reference.info), missing the other two.
On internet you only find pictures of his 93 Bathurst car. That's fine, but there are no pictures of his car during regular rounds, and the liveries are not necessarily the same.
So let's watch some races, but there are only the highlights available, and back in those days, cameras were all about front runners only.
Then at the only race in Oran Park, somebody oversteers and hits the wall, the camera luckily doesn't move on, and another car (the one in the picture) oversteers.
Stop the video, it's the #22. That's John English's car! It's just the rear and part of the sides, but at least it's something we can work with, confronting it with the pictures of his car at Bathurst.
This was lucky.

19/05/2021

The VP Commodore has had a facelift! spent today correcting the Front end, and giving it a performance boost in the process! the polys on this bar compared to old are 13,000 on the old Front bar, and the new bar is only 1600-1700 polys

19/05/2021

Hey All, I Apologise for the Radio Silence recently, been busy with real life things. im Starting to slowly get back to work on the modding. no new previews for now, but ill keep hacking away at it!

19/03/2021

Hey all! got a little thing going on tonight, its round one of Australasian Sim Racing's Supercars Championship, including my new creation, the Ford Mustang, now modeled better than ever!

If youre not watching the footy tonight, watch this because you wont be disappointed!

Every Season Starts Here, its round one at adelaide, lights go out on qualifying in an hour, be there or be square

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDFdkKh-xKE&ab_channel=OutworldBroadcasting

It's a new year, a new season, and a number of new drivers injecting themselves into the Supercars field. The calendar is the shortest it has ever been, but ...

18/03/2021

Hey All! Sorry for the Radio Silence! Life got in the way and i now have a causal Job, also i have finished the collaboration between my personal Work Space, (Higginson Media Engineering) and the Team At Australasian Sim Racing on their Updated Mustang for the 2021 ASR Supercars Season, so now that has been able to be placed in the back seat as it is now working, i will be able to start working on the Late 90's Touring Cars Once More!!!

Stay Tuned!!

16/02/2021

The EB is Complete for rFactor!
After 1 and a half years worth of work the EB is finally complete. The VP will be worked on and will be released soon, once I have it complete for AMS too!

11/02/2021

6 Spoke TechnoMagnesio Rims, which were used on multiple EF Falcons (Notably the Larkham Motosport MTEK-01), as well as VS Commodores, have been modeled!

This mod is going to be as historically accurate as possible, i will endeavour to model as much as possible to reflect real life!

31/01/2021

Hey All!! Long time no see!
We Now have a discord!!
Join here to get all the updates:
https://discord.gg/vCPhSt8kMR

Hope you all had a wonderful new year! and hope youre all keen to see another year of development. I apologise for radio silence over the end of the year of 2020 and into 2021, I had to take some time off to get real life in order and start looking for a job. Believe me if i could do this for a job in real life i would!

The Physics for this mod are well on their way to being ready with each years physics being worked through slowly.
I also have been adding more upgradeable options to each car to really capture what went on back then with the amount of different looks!

an example of this is on the VP commodore, with the Perkins, and Lansvale rims (Pictured below).
all cars will now also be getting updated rims and tires that more reflect the look of the rims of the era, as the previous ones did not capture it the way I was hoping, and having one set of rims working across 10 years worth of racing just did not work. as much as this is a racing sim mod, it is also a work of art to me, and it is one I want to make certain that is as close as possible!

I hope that youre all keen to follow me in seeing where this all goes for 2021, and I hope everyone has had a wonderful christmas and new years!

Kindest regards,
Higgo

05/12/2020

Sierra cosworth WIP for the 1994 Steven Ellery RS!

04/12/2020

We Now Have a discord! if you are keen to take a look Click here
https://discord.gg/hNB4GVAF8x

We are also looking for more Skin Painters, so please if you are keen, Message Us

Check out the AMSMA Central community on Discord - hang out with 3 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

25/10/2020

1998 Shell Australian Touring Car Championship: #95 Ford EL Falcon, run by Dick Johnson Racing, driven by Steven Johnson.