rec.autos.simulators

GPL is by far the best auto racing game, 'till GP3 comes along,
naturaly, and...hooops, what's that? F1 2000? I couln't believe the
screenshots and specs -that they released today- of the upcoming
Electronic Arts F1 game, to be released on march the 15th!!!

Take a look at www.simracingnews.com where there is a link to the
screenshots and specs site. Best and most realistic af what I saw to
date! They say there is a new "6D physics" engine that allows realistic
skids, sand and wind effects (!!), tire smoking and traces (!!!). But
really, the car details are astounding!!!

PS No, I don't work for Electronic Arts. I just wanted to pass on the
information.

Pierre Racine, Canada

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With EA's reputation, we'll have to wait and see.

Marc.

Spirit of Speed comes to mind........

There are a few***pit shots showing a "look left, look right feature".

6 DOF physics - hmm... spin, slide, wiggle, bounce, shine and doppler?

Stephen

p.s. then again, NFS Motor City also boasts of a revamped physics engine
using rigid bodies instead of lookup tables.  Maybe EA has seen the light.

Thanks for the clarification.

Just so no one thinks I am a dolt, I was joking.  I model this stuff on a
daily basis for my PhD.  I was merely proposing that EA might have
different priorities for the DOFs that they model.  For example, if one
looks to their Nascar games, one sees that "bouncing up and down on the
suspension in time to the music" is a very important part of their
model.  No doubt there is a real time FFT and PSD running in the
background to figure out the *** frequency of the techno track, and
this is then implemented in the "bounce" subroutine by dumping fuel and
re-valving the shocks until the natural frequency of the suspension
matches the music :)

Stephen

:> 6 DOF physics - hmm... spin, slide, wiggle, bounce, shine and doppler?
:>
:> Stephen
:>
:> p.s. then again, NFS Motor City also boasts of a revamped physics engine
:> using rigid bodies instead of lookup tables.  Maybe EA has seen the light.

        I'd buy the game if it had a turbo button, a Michael Jordan
one-on-one race, commentary by Julie Foudy (but only in the States;
those unlucky Euros get Murray Walker), and a feature that would let
me digitally import my face onto every member of my pit crew.  

Martin
Long Live Nigel Mansell!

I'm not getting my hopes up, but it has potential.

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I cannot find any mention about AI in any degree.

 And its cars are all looked like just stick on the ground exactly parallel,
no suspension works at all in every screen shots, like Ubi F1. Looks
unnatural.

 Hey, where is 6-D physics? =)