S1e05 - changelog and more

No Fmod update?

 

Its relatively save to say: Nope!

 

From what I remember the sparks were being caused by ALL collisions, which is why it was causing a problem, so every car touching another car was showering sparks.

This for me, shouldn't be how its implemented. Frankly ive rarely seen sparks being caused by cars touching each other, or even hitting a barrier.

Why not just remove them from car to car collisions and just have them for when the car bottoms out, which is I think what everyone actually wants?

 

Good question! but, next question. (jokin)

Dunno, but I would guess because of the same technical and logical reasons as stated above.

Who knows, but I believe if it were super easy todo they would have done it. Maybe the implementation was too much integrated in the code that it was easier to deactivate it completely then customizing it to work for surface only sparks, its all speculative and not that interesting really. Only the cat can say.

Is it important to know the exactly reason? We know it already: Performance gain vs visual goodie = Performance wins.

 

TBH the main reason is they look like **** at the moment. I remember they looked cool 3 years ago when I first coded the thing.. but, again, with pcars raising the bar on the graphics side, I just can't afford to release something that looks that primitive.

So there you go.. because of pcars you can't have sparks.. go beat up some investor now.

 

Dynamic sparks or GTFO

 

See @Ben Lee sometime wishes come true lol.
Theres your answer. And maybe if we're all brave for the next time we will get it back and even better.

PS: I know where Ianas car is parking

 

now.. let's see some realistic sparks

 

Thougt it would be a good object for researching

okok enough bashing. lol

 

sparks for the time of new year... so we can celebrate properly...

 

Stefano is it possible to not hide connection info when session banner is on ( F9 ) ?

 

I always miss this live-events.
I have a question, that perhaps someone else already asked, or if some one will ask it for me ?
Backfires - is there any plans of upgrading them ? The look a bit... meh, with just one frame.
Perhaps possible to make a animated .GIF instead of .PNG ?

 

Yeah someone has asked this or similar I think in the live chat in 04 or 05. and stefano picked this up, but I cant remember the answer. I fear you have to watch it to find out. Which is not bad because its worth watching.

 

I am pretty sure that he basically said that it is one of the thousands of things that could be better but just isn't any kind of a priority; that is the gist of what I recall his response being.

 

Ya, we have to watch out not to spread false information or expectations, true, true.

 

Better real 'fire effect"!!!! No gift no png. It's old tecnology! Would be good to have a tool where to create a proper animated backfire and then save it for each cars. I mean it's perfect for modder. You imagine to increase size or color and animation in different way... COOOL HAA

 

Stefano,
First at all you are a genius and AC is fantastic.
Can i ask you if possible to have "heat shimmer" effect active not only when the car is stopped.
I try to explane better. At the grid start this effect is good but when car start to increase speed the effect disapper.
Would be nice to have it linked with gas pedal, so more gas more heat shimmer. Modder can make cool thing with this effect.
Grazie mille.

 

pyromaniacs

What you mean would be something like the pyroengine in Unity or similar?
I dont think that AC has something comparable to that.

Would be a bit of an overshoot to implement a full sized pyroengine just because of bit smoke and backfire generation... :=

on the other hand it could open new possibilies to other effects... environment, weather... ah no better not open a pandoras box. shhht

 

Haha smth like this. )
I work in CG but i'm not a dev so i can't say how to do but i give some suggest to make AC better.
To my opinion AC need more immersion in things that who likes races want to see in cars that dreams to drive.
I mean now in some situation there is fronzen feeling. Smth like vibrations, better backfire, better heat shimmer,sparks some improvments in sounds would make AC a virtual dream test drive. A lot of us I think take time in watching replays, because we loves cars and we need this passion comes out from all this small stuff.

 

Its your dream and thats very nice and healty and would be great looking but I fear its not the dream of many many (maybe thousends) of others.