Alpine Meadows

• 3 Miles of 2-Way Mountain Road
• Turnaround areas at the top and bottom
• Fast sections with off-camber turns that make cornering a real challenge!
• 3D Trees
• Highly detailed normal map for the road & surroundings
• Right-hand AI Traffic
• Left-hand AI Traffic
• Uphill & Downhill Layouts

• Our next major version of Alpine Meadows will be a complete rebuild, going back to the photogrammetry stage and processing things a bit differently.
• Redoing the road from the beginning allows us to take a different approach in our process, which should help improve the performance of AI traffic, among other things.
• We will add more photos to eliminate some alignment issues that are present in the initial version.
• We are also adding more photos of the top and bottom parking lots in order to make them more smooth and detailed.
• In addition, we plan to combine the road mesh with the background mesh and texture the resulting mesh from all source photos.
• Once the major improvements are done, we will experiment with photogrammetry AO maps as well as VAO bakery for Assetto Corsa.
• Additional enhancements include more roadside objects (street lights, traffic cones, etc.), retopologizing and repairing some elements by hand (such as the guardrails over the bridge), and more varied plants.
• We will add track cameras once the new version is working in AC.

• Some trees are floating in the air, and others are placed incorrectly. This does not affect performance but may be noticeable while driving or in screen captures.
• AI Traffic sometimes crashes the game when using fast cars. Use slower cars designed for traffic AI in Assetto Corsa.
• The parking lot at the top is uneven in some areas.

Alpine Meadows is our first release and we am very excited to bring this beautiful and challenging road to sim racing enthusiasts everywhere.

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‍Alpine Meadows Rd. in Alpine Meadows, CA is a road that winds up a mountain and is full of fast sections, off-camber turns, and switchbacks. This makes it a challenging road to race on, even for experienced drivers!

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AI Traffic

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A note about AI Traffic: We have created working but slightly buggy AI traffic for all layouts, with both right-hand and left-hand traffic. Sometimes it will run for a while with AI cars, other times Assetto Corsa crashes quickly after starting a race. We are working on a solution and it will be included in a future update on Patron.

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These are the best settings we have found for AI Traffic on Alpine Meadows.

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In addition, CSP 1.79 is much better than 1.80 in terms of how the AI drives. If you are on 1.80, some of the AI cars may drive slowly or stop and other cars get backed up behind the slow/stopped cars. If this happens, switch to 1.79 and the cars should all drive normally.

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We would love to hear your feedback on Discord! Enjoy Alpine Meadows and happy sim racing!