engine-crane

A tool to put engines created in Automation into Assetto Corsa.

Code quality

Initially created to learn the Rust Programming language; I wouldn't recommend trying to learn from this code. The current working practice can be best be summarised as "please just work". This will be improved over time

How to use

A guide on how to install and use it can be found on YouTube here

Summary

It is a stand-alone program that takes data from a combination of:

• a BeamNG mod exported from Automation (the car is irrelevant - just the engine data is used at the moment)
• the simulated engine data that is generated by Automation and shown to you when you're in the engine designer

It generates the following data:

• an N/A wheel torque-curve in the power.lut based on some assumed drivetrain losses; currently it bases the mechanical efficiency on the drive-type of the AC though in future I plan to make it configurable.
• If a turbo is used for the engine then it will generate a turbo section and accompanying turbo controller file to match the boost@RPM values from Automation as closely as it can
• A coast torque value based on the friction values of the engine in the BeamNG mod
• The inertia of the engine; again taken from the BeamNG mod
• fuel consumption based off the efficiency data of the engine. You can either specify an AC vanilla physics fuel consumption calculation (which is not very accurate) or it can generate a lut for the more accurate CSP extended physics fuel calculations (details here)
• If the existing cars engine weight is known then it will update the car weight based on the difference between the old and new engine weights
• It updates the auto-shifter based on the RPM of the new engine and if it can find shift leds in the target AC car it will update those to the new engine RPM
• It generates a new set of UI data for the car based of the new engine

Limitations

• It currently doesn't use the engine sounds created in Automation; this is a work-in-progress
• It cannot swap engines into Assetto Corsa cars that have an encrypted data.acd file e.g. ier_p13c