rec.autos.simulators

Thanks,
Robert S?derberg

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I use this method in a pre-metric car I drive....I've marked the tacho at
points corresponding to 60, 80, 100 and 110 kph in top gear.  With the tacho
checked for accuracy this is an extremely effective method of not being
picked up by the laser speed camera.

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There is no speedometer, because it is not needed.  In a racing car it
is laptime that is important, not vehicle speed at any particular
point on the track.  Just about all racing cars have a revcounter and
not a speedometer.

Plus you can always tell if your going faster/slower by looking at
what revs you're pulling in a particular gear at a particular point on
a circuit.

Andy
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Andy Cunningham
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: Plus you can always tell if your going faster/slower by looking at
: what revs you're pulling in a particular gear at a particular point on
: a circuit.

Which works really well with the original GPL gauges.  "Lessee, I'm taking
Masta at about 3 blobby, blurry whatsits below vertical...".  I find I
treat the rev counter as just another warning gauge.  It gives me shift
points, and nothing else.  For cornering speed, I rely on other sensory
inputs, such as engine note and the peripheral vision of scenery flying
past.  I'm too busy concentrating on the driving on corner entry to
actually study the crappy little rev counter, and fine my ears can pick up
fairly subtle differences in revs strictly from the sound frequency.

As for examining replays from the chase view to see exactly what revs I'm
pulling, well... that would be like cheating!  No telemetry in the good
ol' days.  For me it's strictly seat of the pants together with overall
laptimes.

Stephen

http://www.racesimcentral.net/

DK

speedracer

The problem is that, like you said, they are too blurry toread, they do tell
you stuff, but they are too blurry to know what they actally read!!??!

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Ok, well this is where I gotta ***in, another fault I find in GPL (I seem
to be the only one finding them for some reason) is that you simply cannot
tell your speed, the feel of speed is dreadful, you can only tell at high
speeds and thats because your car goes mad, not becasue of what you can see
on screen.

From low to mid speed and revs you can see or feel no difference because of
the totally ***sounds and no clue from the surroundings as they moev in a
similar fasion at any lowish to high speed.

Still, I would love an option to GPL letting you adjust the field of
view. Since all drawn objects are 3D, it should be quite easy to add,
and with a graphics card allowing a really high resolution, the loss
of detail is no big problem.

Think about GPL in 1900x1400 pixels on a 24" monitor with the field
of view set to something close to 180 degrees and your nose not to
far away... That would give enough of speed perception making a seat
belt mandatory :-)

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Mats Lofkvist

As shania put it, "If you wanna win it, there is no speed limit. You just go faster faster, rev it
up till the god darn engine goes...."

I too would like a field-of-view button, but only to narrow it to a
natural perspective.

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Bye,
Leo

Racing cars don't have speedos, full stop.  How fast are you going?
7500 rpm in third is all you need to know...

The big one in the middle should *always* be the rev counter.

Jonny