a wide screen view. With wide screen HDTV's coming down in price, many of us
will have one in the next year or two.
I could swear I saw a pic from E3 which showed GP3 on a wide screen TV or
monitor. Anyone know for sure?
David G Fisher
I could swear I saw a pic from E3 which showed GP3 on a wide screen TV or
monitor. Anyone know for sure?
David G Fisher
I haven't had the fortune of playing GPL (yet!), but this scenario is quite
possible. I don't know the specifics of the GPL cars, but if the center of
gravity is pretty far in the back and you've got tires that are nearly as
grippy up front, the rears can keep getting bigger and bigger slip angles until
WHOOOP!!!! Round ya go! Forward weight transfer, or lack of rear weight
transfer can do this (not in all cars and setups of course, but quite possible
in a "well" setup car).
:-)
Todd Wasson
BTW. Where can I get GPL online?
Someone took pics like that. I had the impression that it was shown on one of
those new plasma-screens. Big but also a rather poor resolution and sharpness.
Images seemed stretched out because obviously GP3 is not meant for 16/9 aspect
ratio.
JoH
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David G Fisher
> >I think the (by far) best thing to improve sims in the near future would
be
> >a wide screen view. With wide screen HDTV's coming down in price, many of
us
> >will have one in the next year or two.
> >I could swear I saw a pic from E3 which showed GP3 on a wide screen TV or
> >monitor. Anyone know for sure?
> >David G Fisher
> Someone took pics like that. I had the impression that it was shown on one
of
> those new plasma-screens. Big but also a rather poor resolution and
sharpness.
> Images seemed stretched out because obviously GP3 is not meant for 16/9
aspect
> ratio.
> JoH
> ------- The best way to accelerate a Mac is 9.81 m/s2 --------
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>> Does anyone have suggestions for improving the feel of future
>> sims??I figure with all the racing sim fans that come here that this
>> could be a great place for ideas.
>Actually, I've been toying with this idea for quite some time, and I
>think I've found a rather good solution.
>I don't think any additional sensors are needed. The problem with GPL
>and all other racing sims is that the viewing direction is always fixed
>along a specific axis with respect to the car.
>What would make it much easier to have a good grasp on the slip angle
>(the over-understeer) is if the view was pointed in the direction of the
>velocity vector instead, at least for higher velocities. That way when
>the car acquires a slip angle in a, say, right hand turn, the view
>remains looking into the direction where the car is going, but the whole
>cockpit rotates slightly towards the right due to the chassis slip
>angle. If an oversteer condition occurs, the chassis would start
>rotating even further to the right due to the increasing slip angle
>making it very easy for the driver to notice it.
--
PD
> How about a G-meter?
In F12K, go to the
\F1 2000\Season00\Tracks\<track>\<track>.scn
file, and open it with a text editor.
Near the top of the file, under the
"View=mainview" section, look for the line:
ViewFOV=(77.75, 62.50)
The first number controls the view angle
in the***pit view. You can adjust it
to whatever you want. I like it at about
90 degrees. You really get a better feel
for where you are in the corners, and
for where the other cars are at.
--
PD
> That's why a wide field of view as in GPL is needed. Apex needs not be
> in the center of the screen, it only needs to be somewhere on it.
One other thing that i've seen mentioned here, about gpl's lack
of sales.. I can't imagine that anyone at papy really expected a
game based on a year of racing before the majority of
computer "gamers" was born, would really do well at the Comp
Usa's and EB's of the world.. My feeling has always kinda been
that Kaemmer and crew were allowed to make gpl as a sort
of "payback" for the high volume nascar sims, while using the
new physics engine as bait.. It really seems like a labor of
love, and almost deliberately uninviting to the average gamer.
Not something you'd expect from a commercially directed sim..
with sierra's lack of marketing really backing up my argument IMO
Hmm. Ok, offa the soapbox!
Big thank you to papy for making GPL...
ddunk
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Michael.
It's already been done ... by the king of sims: GPL! :)))
Hena
I think more could be done with sound. If there were many more
variations of the skid sound, say 10 .wav files instead of one, it
could provide valuable additional feedback.
Many other good ideas in this thread as well.
Heaven forbid we should think that simulating the driving experience
will never be done better than GPL, as great as it is.
Cheers, wtonsmann
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> I totally feel that this would give sooo much more feel to GPL
> and future sims but once again Randy Cassidy had posted a reply that
> took away my confidence in this theory.He stated that they tried it in
> GPL but it made the car feel like it was wallowing about.I hope he and
> Papy are wrong but there most likely right:((((
It might look that way in GPL, but with more modern racing series the
idea might just be worth trying out again as the slip angles are much
smaller there.
-Gregor
> I think more could be done with sound. If there were many more
> variations of the skid sound, say 10 .wav files instead of one, it
> could provide valuable additional feedback.
-Gregor
>> Well your understeer/oversteer idea is really good but you can always
>argue
>> that it doesn't exist in real cars, although it is possible with a good
>> telemtry system such as the one from PI research.
>> On the other hand if you take into account that '67 drivers had to had
>their
>> telemetry "in the ass" because their ass was the sensor for inline G,
>> lateral G, understeer and oversteer it is clear that they have an
>advantage
>> over us because my seatis not moving when i play GPL (although) it has
>> wheels so it could move...)
>> Discussion opened.
>I didn't know they had such high-tech asses in '67.
lateral G, Inline G is not so high tech, here's the way to recognize them.
1)Have your girlfriend kick you in the ass next time you play GPL for
hours, that's INLINE G
2)Being angry after step 1 go into your real car, and in the middle of the
first roundabout you pass strongly pull the handbrake, at first you will
feel POSITIVE LATERAL G, when you hit the curb af the side of the road you
will fell a very short but strong NEGATIVE LATERAL G.
There you go with a unexpensive high tech G sensor....