is there any Australian content coming ?

is there any Australian content coming ?
Phillip island is in a paddock and has a basic layout so cant be that hard to do for a pro track builder .
Bathurst Mount panorama has a GT3 12hr race and we have FIA recognised series.

 

Why do you think lack of an aussie track is due the difficulty of the work involved?

 

I would enjoy their V8 series.

But laser scanning there would be an obvious problem

 

Yes its an obvious problem as nobody can get to Australia. The scanner also doesnt work when upside down.

 

Not fussed about V8 taxicars as they are dead and have been for a few years.
phillip island has a smooth surface , there is barely a bump . It has 1 pit lane building and a few sheds. get the data from google earth . Its also one of the oldest tracks on the planet still being used today .
iracing has done mount panorama and it's most likely the hardest track to do in Australia ? so its not impossible .
not every track in AC is laser scanned there are fantasy made tracks also so laser scanning doesn't really matter.
its like we have race track ebola or something . Kunos put an SUV in the game and no one will even poke it with a stick .

 

Hey look everybody,... we have a volunteer to laser scan Phillip island,... lets us know when you send the data to AC.

 

Gladly, if Kunos funds me to get a supercar, chuck a scanner on the roof and run laps at all the aussie tracks I will gladly do this. Does the data get thrown out at speed and while going sideways, if so I may need looooooots of laps to make some half useable data. .

Iracing has Bathurst, Philip Island and Oran park scanned and in game. RF modders back in the day managed to scan Oran Park (likely the same data Iracing used ) as it is now a housing estate and was before it was made for IR. They also scanned Eastern creek for the mod which has never been released in a commercial release but the track had some changes to it since this was scanned.



I don't know where your from but there are these things called airplanes, people get in one and at most sit 24 hours or so in a can full of farts before they get to here and repeat the process to get home so its fairly possible. A few hundred years ago all it took was for a British person to steal a loaf of bread and get sent here as punishment by boat. I think those that were really punished are the ones that didn't steal anything and had to stay in the UK. We also have this bright glow in the sky called a sun, I think a few of those early convicts got the story out and now others are all trying their hardest to get here to take a look at this big light in the sky they've only seen in movies and read about in what they thought were fairy tales.

 

Australia surely has some nice tracks. I like Oran Park and Philip Island. Funny thing is, i wasn't aware of either of those before i drove them in iRacing, and didn't really expect much, but, was positively surprised. I didn't really like Bathurst though, except for the last few corners, that is one track i don't know why it is hyped that much (sorry). If you'd ask me what should come to AC, or the potential successor, i'd say Philip Island. Very fun track. And, i don't see the issues with the laser scanning either. If Kunos can do US courses, then they also can do Australian courses.

On a unrelated note: I love the Aussie national anthem. Always makes me wonder why our German national anthem has to be so depressing, compared to that vehemency of other countries national anthems. Guess we really hate ourselves.

 

Bathurst is more of a challenge then many people seem to really want, the top of the mountain is mostly one lane street style and the bottom is just fast with a chicane and a couple 90 degree corners but overall I still think its the best track in Australia by a fair margin for pure driving even if Philip Island is the best one for racing IMHO. The worst one we have I think is the Albert park f1 layout, its I think the worst layout on the calendar and I live in Melbourne. Adelaide was a much better street circuit and if we could ever get a proper street circuit scanned this would be a big wish for me even the modern V8 layout is better then the Albert park f1 track.

In AC we have some well made aussie mod layouts already with Barbagallo and Baskerville being scratch made for AC, there is a questionable rip of Bathurst based off the Pcars layout which is good enough for now as we don't have a proper version and such an iconic track is really needed for any aussie in a sim. There is also a conversion of eastern creek which I am sure was originally based off the scanned RF layout but was heavily reworked with the track layout changes being added to it so maybe they just used the original RF layout for reference.

There are a few other Aussie mods floating around but some are pretty poor including some old rips dating back from old codies games, I know that's where they are from as I was one of the guys that ripped some of these way back then into rfactor and some have made it to AC with barely any work done to them beyond what we did 10+ years ago.

 

Totally forgot about Albert Park to be honest. I think i like that one as well, but, i haven't really done many virtual laps on it. I even think since F1 1999-2002 i didn't drive that one.

 

I imagine it's more about budget for such an undertaking than getting to Australia at all...

 

Bathurst and Phillip Island are my favourites and I'd be stoked to have them included. I don't see why, if PCars and GT can include it, it mustn't be an exclusive licence.

Been scanned apparently by Polyphony, so it's possible to get clear time to scan it with several events being held there each year. The 12hr is the ultimate, only thing better would be a 24h. Moving Roo chicanes.