[size=20]Custom Shaders Patch[/size]

First of all, of course, we’d first like to thank the Kunos developers for all of the effort they put into making AC such a great simulator and giving us an excellent basis for our work.

[b]Made by:[/b]
- Dmitrii A., henter, Jackson Papageorge (mclarenf1papa/JPG_18) of IER Simulations, Neoned, Stereo, Tsuka1427, x4fab.

[b]With help from:[/b]
- Alessandro Micali: nicely done grass tyre texture;
- Blamer: great app for setting up track lights and more;
- Bombadil: new chaser camera script;
- ChatGPT: help with searches and some specific tips;
- Chr0m3 (Chr0m3 Motorsport): tyre wear triggering tyres blowing, a way to fix misconfigured car soundbanks;
- leBluem: improvements for python apps, documentation;
- Levels: new chaser camera script;
- Nikita Kulikovskiy: presets for VR;
- Peter Boese: incredible Weather FX implementation, Sol;
- Scott Shaw: amazing tyre damages textures;
- Silent: per-set textures for Tyres FX;
- Tsuka1427: invaluable help with core functionality of Custom Shaders Patch;
- Yokai: fix for the default chaser camera script.

[b]Thanks for a lot of testing to:[/b]
- AlleyViper, atrip3, Cheesy, cjk28, clutch, compu, DasCiba, __EASY__, Johnr777, leBluem, Ligneel, Rusty, Schmawlik, Tuttertep.

[b]Using:[/b]
- Lens flare based on [example](https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4sX3Rs) by mu6k;
- Single pass DOF based on [this article](https://blog.voxagon.se/2018/05/04/bokeh-depth-of-field-in-single-pass.html) by Dennis Gustafsson;
- Clouds noise texture based on [demo](https://www.shadertoy.com/view/3dVXDc) by piyushslayer;
- GPU-accelerated particles based on [this article](https://wickedengine.net/2017/11/07/gpu-based-particle-simulation/) by turanszkij;
- Grass idea [from GRID](http://blog.codemasters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Rendering-Fields-of-Grass-using-DirectX11-in-GRID-Autosport.pdf) by Richard Kettlewell (Codemasters);
- Lighting algorithm based on [a great idea](https://worldoffries.wordpress.com/2015/02/19/simple-alternative-to-clustered-shading-for-thousands-of-lights/) by Luke Mamacos;
- Minimal AgX implementation from [this helpful post](https://iolite-engine.com/blog_posts/minimal_agx_implementation) by Benjamin Wrensch;
- Old sky shader forked from [this shader](https://www.shadertoy.com/view/Ml2cWG) made by robobo1221;
- VRWorks by NVIDIA;
- 8K star map from NASA.

[b]Separate thanks to people preparing configs:[/b]
- atrip3, Benner900, Black Velvet Tzenamo, Blamer, demonized, fanapryde, Fat-Alfie, Fuzo, Gunnar333, Inori, Kavoriken, Kavoriken, leBluem, Ly993, Marocco2, NoThrottleControl aka nptc364, Paul12451, Peter Boese, Ruske06, Rusty#9643, Tovey LD2F, WilliamRiker, RealAKP.

[b]And the ones who shared backgrounds:[/b]
- ACZeldaFan17, AssettoDrive.net, Gunnar333, ItsDraik, JavireTwo, MadMat, T-Top, demonized, exydeus, hamzah, kelnor34, maymate, nptc.

[b]Special effects used:[/b]
- ASSAO and CMAA2 by Intel;
- FidelityFX and FSR by AMD;
- FXAA and HBAO+ by NVIDIA;
- SMAA.

[b]Plus, other open-source software:[/b]
- [AnimatedGIF](https://github.com/bitbank2/AnimatedGIF);
- [BakingLab](https://github.com/TheRealMJP/BakingLab);
- [bc7enc](https://github.com/richgel999/bc7enc_rdo);
- [Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) form by OBS](https://github.com/obsproject/cef);
- [cpp-lru-cache](https://github.com/lamerman/cpp-lru-cache);
- [Crypto++](https://www.cryptopp.com/);
- [CTTI](https://github.com/Manu343726/ctti);
- [Dear ImGui](https://github.com/ocornut/imgui);
- [Delegate](https://github.com/bdiamand/Delegate);
- [DualSense-Windows](https://github.com/Ohjurot/DualSense-Windows);
- [Embree](https://github.com/embree/embree);
- [fmtlib/fmt](https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt);
- [gta5_fsr](https://github.com/NarutoUA/gta5_fsr);
- [HIDAPI](https://github.com/libusb/hidapi);
- [JoyShockLibrary](https://github.com/JibbSmart/JoyShockLibrary);
- [json.lua](https://github.com/rxi/json.lua);
- [libdeflate](https://github.com/ebiggers/libdeflate);
- [libwebp](https://chromium.googlesource.com/webm/libwebp);
- [Lua OpenSSL](https://github.com/wahern/luaossl);
- [LuaSocket](https://lunarmodules.github.io/luasocket/index.html);
- [kd-tree](https://github.com/gishi523/kd-tree);
- [MaskedOcclusionCulling](https://github.com/GameTechDev/MaskedOcclusionCulling);
- [meshoptimizer](https://github.com/zeux/meshoptimizer);
- [minhook fork from ReShade](https://github.com/crosire/reshade);
- [miniball](https://github.com/hbf/miniball);
- [miniz](https://github.com/richgel999/miniz);
- [moodycamel::ConcurrentQueue](https://github.com/cameron314/concurrentqueue);
- [moodycamel::ReaderWriterQueue](https://github.com/cameron314/readerwriterqueue);
- [NanoRT](https://github.com/lighttransport/nanort);
- [obfy](https://github.com/fritzone/obfy);
- [ODE physics engine](http://ode.org/);
- [OpenResty’s fork of LuaJIT](https://github.com/openresty/luajit2);
- [OpenSSL](https://github.com/openssl/openssl);
- [poly2tri](https://github.com/jhasse/poly2tri);
- [RandomLib](http://randomlib.sourceforge.net/);
- [robin_hood unordered map & set](https://github.com/martinus/robin-hood-hashing);
- [SQLite](https://www.sqlite.org/);
- [tinyexpr](https://github.com/codeplea/tinyexpr);
- [utf-cpp](https://github.com/ww898/utf-cpp);
- [ValveFileVDF](https://github.com/TinyTinni/ValveFileVDF);
- [X1nput](https://github.com/araghon007/X1nput);
- [xatlas](https://github.com/jpcy/xatlas);
- [xxHash](https://github.com/Cyan4973/xxHash).

[b]And resources:[/b]
- Emoji made by [Twitter](https://github.com/twitter/twemoji);
- Icons made by [Freepik](https://www.flaticon.com/authors/freepik) from [www.flaticon.com](https://www.flaticon.com/);
- Icons made by [fjstudio](https://www.flaticon.com/authors/fjstudio) from [www.flaticon.com](https://www.flaticon.com/);
- Icons made by [Those Icons](https://www.flaticon.com/authors/those-icons) from [www.flaticon.com](https://www.flaticon.com/);
- Icons made by [Pixel perfect](https://www.flaticon.com/authors/pixel-perfect) from [www.flaticon.com](https://www.flaticon.com/).
