along the lines of 'we tried to put the real numbers in, but the cars were
impossible to drive' regarding f1 2002.
any know what im on about?
pez
any know what im on about?
pez
MadDAWG
James Hawkins the producer of the F1 titles said it during a fairly
recent interview. I don't know if he was referring to the PC or Console
title. But that is not to be unexpected. You base your physics on a
limited number of calculations. Since you can't include all the zillions
of parameters that effect a car's movement, you have to fudge certain
things. I'd be willing to bet that a good deal of programming a sim is
spent just throwing in almost random numbers to try acheive a time or an
effect that replicates what takes place in that paticular sim. We all know
asphalt doesn't have the same level of grip at every track in the world, so
items like that have to be adjusted sometimes to make up for other
calculations that, if left alone, would produce non-beleivable lap times.
Perhaps one of the 3 or 4 Fizzics guys would like to comment on this.
dave henrie
Don't think it was ISI... there was a post about a guy from EA Sports (one
of the people behind NFS: Hot Pursuit) saying something to that effect a
good while back IIRC.
Jan.
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http://makeashorterlink.com/?K26041461
I think this is the thread you are looling for. It's from May 2002. I
found it by searching Google Groups (groups.google.com). It was a long
link, so I made it shorter.
pez
> > im looking for something i saw quoted here a while back saying something
> > along the lines of 'we tried to put the real numbers in, but the cars
were
> > impossible to drive' regarding f1 2002.
> > any know what im on about?
> http://makeashorterlink.com/?K26041461
> I think this is the thread you are looling for. It's from May 2002. I
> found it by searching Google Groups (groups.google.com). It was a long
> link, so I made it shorter.
Again, notice the person giving the comment is neither related to ISI nor
involved with F1 2002, or any sim for that matter.
Jan.
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:)
dont worry, i love f1 2002, just wish my controller would be a little kinder
to me with it.
btw, im Welsh, i love f1, i cant watch nascar on tv, looks too slow.
pez
I don't see what being an online admin would have to do with it, but anyway.
You started this thread with the assumption the comment was made by someone
involved with ISI, in the context of F1 2002. I then contradict this by
stating it was someone from EA Sports NFS Hot Pursuit team, to which you
don't react. Another poster directs you to the intended message, where the
origin of the quote is referred to correctly. To which you reply "yup,
that's the one" without further comment. That is lifting it out of context
as you're relying on the reader to follow a link from an earlier post and
understanding it contradicts your premise. I therefore felt it necessary to
add the qualifier.
I have a hard time believing that. I find it pretty callous you shouldn't
take more care false information doesn't get circulated after your personal
curiosity is satisfied. Gives the impression you just use RAS as your
walking encyclopedia and do your "real" posting somewhere else.
I will be installing an giving F1 2k2 a workout when I'm on holiday next
week. I'll be happy to try and assist in solving your controller troubles
then.
Irrelevant, but I agree the camera angles do make Nascar races look
pedestrian at times. Nothing is further from the truth, obviously, but it
does give that impression. I'll take the 45min recaps on Eurosport over most
F1 races any day, though.
Jan.
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This was an EA Canada guy who may have made a comment at a college about not
using real world numbers. Now it's a post by ISI on physics. Some day it
will be a class action suit against ISI after they admitted there is no
physics model and they never had an F1 license. ;0)
--
Joe Marques
>This was an EA Canada guy who may have made a comment at a college about not
>using real world numbers. Now it's a post by ISI on physics. Some day it
>will be a class action suit against ISI after they admitted there is no
>physics model and they never had an F1 license. ;0)
Ruud van Gaal
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pez
Take that comment and shove it, friend.
Jan.
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pez