Updated: 30th April, 2020

Sidekick is an add-on app for Assetto Corsa that provides an on-screen HUD showing information about your car, laptimes, and track conditions.

Originally developed by Topuz and released on Race Department, he has kindly given permission for me to release some additional enhancements to the wider Assetto Corsa community.

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How to get a new hat

Sometimes the default driver model for some cars in Assetto Corsa can look a bit out of place, particularly with road or old race cars. Custom Shaders Patch gives us a means to replace the default driver with something more appropriate, either a different Kunos driver (with 60s, 70s or 80s style helmets), or a mod model, such as driver with with no helmet. All this can be done without having to edit the car itself, and can even be done for only a specific skin.

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How to Clean Your Windscreen

There are three options to tweak the dirt to your liking, depending on what you want to achieve:

  • To just get rid of the dirt completely, use CSP’s WindscreenFX feature
  • If you just want reduce the amount of glare created by the dirt you can use a CSP car config file to tweak the shader properities
  • If the dirt texture is too low-res, or has a dashboard reflection that looks bad in VR, you can replace it using a CSP car config file

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