Driving guide

Hi all!

Assetto Corsa is aiming broad audience as a simulator.There is a lot of newcomers who just want something more from CG driving than Gran Turismo. Even if AC is quite friendly for them, everyone has to learn how to drive.

There are many things to do: fast starting from the grid, threshold braking, cornering techniques, manual gearbox, drifting, heel-and-toe etc. You can learn of course all of this by experimenting on the track, but there is a big chance that you will end up with bad habits.

I thought it might be a good idea to add a proper driving guide or encyclopedia into AC. Each topic described by a short video presenting the technique and a short exercise on the track with i.e. traffic cones. I would love to see something similar to factory driving missions from old NFS Porsche 2000:



Assetto Corsa already have HTML based interface, so adding new content like videos, explanations etc. should be quite easy. The more consuming would be creation of that content. Maybe some of pro-drivers from this forum would like to create a series of lessons and make an appearance in AC?

I don't know however the flexibility of the game engine to configure the environment for exercises, i.e. is it possible to set different start and finish lines, add "checkpoints" to small, restricted area(like in slalom) or evaluate the data from telemetry.

What do you think, do you like it?

 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAywC4hctMbmu_9J6vSewjmIoaLtj-Bry
Empty Box' Sim Racing 101... explains a lot

 

Sounds like a great idea! If adding cones as "checkpoints" works, then we might even see some proper autocross tracks - but oh well, I'm derailing this thread already. So BTT, then. I want to throw in two (IMHO) important points:

• While something like "learning how to use the heel-toe technique" is quite neat, it's restricted to the few people who have the hardware to do it, therefore it's hard to teach it through the game. Something like drifting should be doable, though.
• One should learn from these, let's call them "tests" - I still remember the accelerating and braking licence tests on GT: You didn't learn anything as coming to a standstill isn't necessarily something that will be of use while racing - especially not, when you try to slide in order to improve your best time. What, e.g., might be very useful is learning difficult sections of certain tracks.

 

Its allways good to have things that makes a player a better simdriver. Its all about organisation.
The advantage to have such things directly inside AC would be to access the broad audience, because I doubt that all AC useres are following the forums.

On the other hand it could be to resource consuming for kunos to make such thing by them selfs. sooo...

Setting and saving custom start and endpoints in training sessions for a track would be a great helper for all, for beginners and pros to train specific sections. This could be the a very good inprovement.

 

Or, check Google. Read, watch, learn, hotlap, practice practice practice RACE!
https://www.google.ca/webhp?sourcei...v=2&ie=UTF-8#q=performance+driving+techniques
http://www.turnfast.com/technical