An idea about weather system

Hello,

first of all I like AC a lot and it pulled me right into simracing.
I know that the game is still in beta and many many more content and features will be added. But I wanted to tell a bit about an idea for a possible weather system.

Currently it is very handy that you can adjust the temperature and time of day so you can set it to the ideal conditions to do hotlaps.
But for the races it would be nice if we could have some more options. And this can come in different kinds of setting possibilities. For example some dropdown boxes to set the type of weather that you like for the race.

But why not take this a step further with a dynamic weather system. I know this isn't easy to build, but it is just an idea/suggestion. Having a dynamic system could simulate real world weather, and what we see in real life races is that one part of the track is getting wet while an other part of it isn't yet due to the wind speed pushing the clouds over the track. This would make races more interesting and pushes the skills of the drivers. Not only trying to keep the car on track and being fast but also making the decision when to go into the pits for intermediate or wet tires.

And maybe we can even take yet another step further down this road. What if it was possible to link with weather stations that are close to the real tracks to give realtime weather information so the sim matches as close as possible the real life weather. Or maybe record weather data from real races and use these ingame.

I know this all sounds very ambitious, but it's just an idea and who knows it could be possible at a certain stage in the development (past 1.0). This could make the whole weather system a bit more interesting than just an all dry or all wet race.

Let me know what you guys think about this. And as I said before: this is just an idea, I know this is not easy to build and it could maybe be a feature that we only will see in a few years with even better hardware to run all these types of simulation. So please don't shoot me ;-)

 

This is a great idea, these options would make the simulator much more real, especially in endurance races.

 

Codemaster F1 series has this feature ...

 

I didn't know that. But as it already exists in other games then maybe one day in AC?

 

Needed but a bit lower level! It couldn`t be that difficult. With Race07 it`s possible to set individual weather like a charm (Autosim Weather Generator) and this is really a very old game. With all this higly capable dev`s at KUNOS, should be makeable. Real weather with connection to weather services...i don`t know, if this is realley needed. For me, as an simracing server admin, it`s highly more important, to set some individual weather, depending on the drivers requests.

 

Of course many didnt know that since Codemaster F1 series are some lousy simcade to many players here

 

where is l update 0.6??????????

 

I guess" easiest" implementation of all is to set clear, semi, bad weather with good grip, less good, slippery (need tyres for this also). When thats in place maybe dynamic weather isnt so hard to code in. Random chance of the 3 different stages to happen during races where the different surface grip follows.

@tututoto074 Usually comes during the day. Its too early yet. And this tread is about weather. Not patches.

 

This feature has been begged for countless times. From what I remember we may get it but in the distant future. I remember reading about the sun being able to track its position in the real world in the game in real-time.

 

hello ok tanks for reponse.

 

I'm still very new to sim racing, and trying out different games. I will give the F1 series a try to see how it feels. But I'm more into GT cars then in single seaters.

Tracking the sun would be nice in endurance races.

 

Of course Kunos can do that but i believe there are still alot more "pressing issues" (according to many hardcore simmer) that need to be done before they consider to implement this feature.

 

Yeah Codemaster F1 series has some very useful & great feature, try it out if you have time.

 

Of course, as I stated in my first post this could be a feature beyond 1.0.

 

@alex72 Yeah, that seems like it would be the easiest way to go about it. Sort of a 'notch' for different weather conditions. And tires to go along with it obviously, like the various stages we have now along with semi-wets, and full-wets would be spectacular for GT racing!

@Leemstradamus Yes, the Sun does follow the real-life positioning if I remember correctly. Being that they can do that, I wonder if they were to do weather conditions, if they could do live weather tracking? I don't know if you're familiar with Microsoft flight simulator, but it gets live updates for weather every few minutes. That would truly be something else!

 

Take it easy, i just making fun joking about some of those selfish hardcore simmer. Thats mean i myself dont even mind if Kunos implement this right now before the enhanced AI & MP.

 

No hard feelings :-D. It just hard to use the right intonation in writing :-D

 

Lol he didnt attack you. Lost in translation i think.

He just said "yes i agree".

EDIT: lol

 

Peace

@alex72 Yes i know that. I never feel like he is attack me. I say take it easy because i dont want him thinking that i actually make fun or attack him by my previous message. My english is also lousy and use lot of google translate myself

 

Oh ok, sorry my friend. We misunderstand eachother lol. No problems.