I've always wondered: if you adjust your seat in GTR, does it change
the center of gravity of the car / driver combination?
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I think the cg is defined in their hidden .hdv files. The point of view
is merely a convieance for a driver's paticular taste. When I drive coupes
like those in GTR, I tend to raise the viewpoint up so I can see the top
edges of the fenders, and thus the apex of a corner. I usually move it
back some too, as I prefer to see all of the mirrors. In an open LeMans
prototype, I generally stick to the default setting, being 'canyoned' down
low between the front tires, gives me great immersion.
dave henrie
Visual affect only would be my guess.
>> Lots of good new ideas posted by others. Stuff that still bears to be
> improved (especially since some of it has taken steps backwards).
> Better/more accurate track modeling, better online collision/detection
> code, better damage models, better physics, especially drafting.
> Of these four, the latter three have decreased in quality over the
years,
> in terms of Nascar sims.
Another thing I just discovered is how the airflow vibration is reduced when
drafting and seems to increase above normal when I pulled out to pass the
draftee - really great effect."
Not a big deal I guess, but it's something I've never seen before.
David G Fisher
Cheers!
Remco
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> I think rFactor will improve a lot on those four.
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> >> Lots of good new ideas posted by others. Stuff that still bears to
be
> > improved (especially since some of it has taken steps backwards).
> > Better/more accurate track modeling, better online collision/detection
> > code, better damage models, better physics, especially drafting.
> > Of these four, the latter three have decreased in quality over the
> years,
> > in terms of Nascar sims.
> I think rFactor will improve a lot on those four. Here's a quote from
today
> from a from a post at RSC that I thought sounded kind of interesting
> regarding aero modeling.
> Another thing I just discovered is how the airflow vibration is reduced
when
> drafting and seems to increase above normal when I pulled out to pass the
> draftee - really great effect."
> Not a big deal I guess, but it's something I've never seen before.
> David G Fisher
Probably when we all going to be able to buy a home PC not running copper
cpu.
EL
> The whole simracing world is slowly closing the gap between their physics
> and graphical engine. The transition is long, and it'll take a while.
> Around 10 years (makes sense). Someday everything on screen, will be a
real
> entity and not be a bunch of polygons together, with a hidden set of
> parameters for the physics engine to take in consideration.
> The oil a car will let on the track, will run down it if it's banked. A
> fence will be a fence, not just a transparent polygon with a texture on
it.
> It'll be deformable. Same goes for any part of a car. They will become
> more and more complex.
> The only thing I hate of the whole thing, is the lack of cooperation, or
> open-standardness between companies. Heck, FIVE years ago a company like
> Motorsims created the most incredible tracks I've ever seen. Not even
today
> companies have devoted that much attention to them. All that work is
> wasted. Developpers spend TONS of money recreated existing tracks. How
> many ***ing version of Laguna exist? Now if Laguna Seca would create
their
> own perfect model and sell it to companies, it would always be perfect.
Or
> perhaps a company that would sell track information to other developpers.
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-Greg
> Not that it's to do with the guts of sims themselves, but the next big
> step for me will be when you have a headset like the Track-IR but the
> headset will have 3D sound in the ears and a pair of small monitors over
> each eye - now that will be total immersion for all computer games! :) The
> peripheral vision problem will be a thing of the past!
Charlie
> Hmmm, tracks can't be "improved" over REAL sims when they are fantasy
> tracks. They can't even match up to Motorsims' tracks back 5 years ago or
> what Papy does in terms of polygonal smoothness anyway. And considering
> it's semi-serious nature (similar to LFS), the physics are bound to be
> degraded.
I would also ask where you get the idea that this is "semi-serious"?
Papy had a fantastic run of form and were for their day unbeatable.
Nothing felt as convincing to drive for me. Until now.
RBR and rFactor give me the sort of grin I haven't experienced since
GPL first came out all those years ago...
The king is dead, etc.
Too easy - just a random answer generator! :)
> > When I watch a NASCAR telecast I get the impression
> > that a lot more is going on than there is in either of our
> > NASCAR titles, as teams feverishly try to tweak the car
> > back to optimum during a race. [Not that you'll get a
> > lot of this technical info from the announcers, just a
> > bunch of stuff like "Gordon is tight in the middle of the
> > turn, loose on exit"...].
> > John DiFool
> > Not that it's to do with the guts of sims themselves, but the next
big
> > step for me will be when you have a headset like the Track-IR but the
> > headset will have 3D sound in the ears and a pair of small monitors over
> > each eye - now that will be total immersion for all computer games! :)
The
> > peripheral vision problem will be a thing of the past!
> I'd love to see it, but I wonder if anyone's dealt with the depth of
> field (visual focus) issues yet, or if they can be dealt with...
> Charlie
> High frequency bumps? BTW, the fps don't matter when you're talking
> physics...
> Cheers!
> Remco
