rec.autos.simulators

by **Daniel Desland** » Thu, 20 Feb 1997 04:00:00

>Is there suffient knowledge of gp2 as a program to allow a group of
>programmers to patch the game with a wet weather option.

>I believe that the reason that wet weather was left out of gp2 is that
>it would have sent proc occupancy rocketing when following other cars,
>this could have been worked around by:

>1) turning spray off
>2) having different levels of colours for clouds, track and verges to
>represent light and heavy rain.
>3) Also the addition of rain tyres

>what i am proposing in the first instance is a debate on whether rain
>can be added by freeware using the smoke option turned on all the time
>to represent spray

Smoke all the time!!??!? Only a second of that smoke on my screen and
my cpu 'smokes' :) now that would be horrible...I'm sure they left it
because they knew no one could run it with decent frame rate... If
only they would update it to use 3d cards that would permit having
rain but for now...the sky is blue and i'm heading for the finish line
:))

see you

by **Stanley Cha** » Sun, 23 Feb 1997 04:00:00

Isn't there a way to implement haze a la the flight simulators? Games
like Flight Unlimited, F22 etc. reduce the visible distance to improve
frame rate rather dramatically. Anything further out is rendered in
beautiful (?) haze. Since in rain, this distance would be very, very
short, a frame rate improvment would be possible, but then of course
you'd be looking at rewriting the game, wouldn't you?

Stanley Chan

> >Is there suffient knowledge of gp2 as a program to allow a group of
> >programmers to patch the game with a wet weather option.

> >I believe that the reason that wet weather was left out of gp2 is that
> >it would have sent proc occupancy rocketing when following other cars,
> >this could have been worked around by:

> >1) turning spray off
> >2) having different levels of colours for clouds, track and verges to
> >represent light and heavy rain.
> >3) Also the addition of rain tyres

> >what i am proposing in the first instance is a debate on whether rain
> >can be added by freeware using the smoke option turned on all the time
> >to represent spray

> Smoke all the time!!??!? Only a second of that smoke on my screen and
> my cpu 'smokes' :) now that would be horrible...I'm sure they left it
> because they knew no one could run it with decent frame rate... If
> only they would update it to use 3d cards that would permit having
> rain but for now...the sky is blue and i'm heading for the finish line
> :))

> see you

by **David McK** » Sun, 23 Feb 1997 04:00:00

: Isn't there a way to implement haze a la the flight simulators? Games
: like Flight Unlimited, F22 etc. reduce the visible distance to improve
: frame rate rather dramatically. Anything further out is rendered in
: beautiful (?) haze. Since in rain, this distance would be very, very
: short, a frame rate improvment would be possible, but then of course
: you'd be looking at rewriting the game, wouldn't you?

I thought the approximation of spray and haze WAS pretty well
done in GP1 myself... Or were the MPS programmers so hell-bent on using
the extremely slow transparent bitmaps?

Martin
Nigel Mansell RIP!

rec.autos.simulators

wet weather 3rd party add on for gp2

wet weather 3rd party add on for gp2

wet weather 3rd party add on for gp2

wet weather 3rd party add on for gp2