Tire smoke

Currently, tire smoke is generated based on the slip angle / amount of the tires, which makes drifting look weird as the tires doesn't produce smoke all the time. At the start of every race, many cars make an exaggerated amount of smoke.

Tire smoke should build up based on tire temps and so on.
One game that has got tire smoke done well is Grand Theft Auto 4.
The smoke it produces is quite believable and in some ways more realistic than many other games.



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Exactly, i've said that some time before in this forum, nobody seems to bother, in fact GTA IV has the most realistic smoke i've ever seen...

 

It would be nice with updated smoke to more realistic behaviour indeed. However AC is still wip and things that doesnt really mess with the gameplay might be changed later on. All we can do is suggest and hope the lords hear us.

 

The Youtuber BroBurger has already a tire somke mod.

 

To me tire smoke atm is one of the weak parts of AC as it has a huge impact on performance but still doesnt even look good.
I also prefer the way smoke is generated in GTA4 and I would also prefer if it would stay for longer, much like in RRRE. It gives a nice feeling if you lost sight of the car in front of you but realize that its close as you drive through the tire smoke thats still floating above the track.
Another nice thing about smoke in RRRE is that it reacts to shadows which looks fantastic without any big performance hit.
It would be great if smoke would be improved at some point, given that drifting is so much fun in this game!

 

I set smoke to low and I don't like drifting. So smoke doesn't bother me at all.
When you smoke - you are going slower. Both ways.

 

Smoke is not necessary only for drifting, it adds immersion to the game, in real racing there is smoke, when a car spins out of track, lock brakes for too long, etçª

 

And I'm leaving this message here for the devs

If you look closely enough, the smoke in GTA 4 (a 7 year old game!) is NOT particle rendering! It is just a really smart way of cheating that I still can't tell exactly how they did it. Hope Kunos can be more clever about the way they render stuffs (still can't have more than one light source -.-|||)

BTW for people saying that its not important, check out "Assetto Corsa Drift Community" on Facebook. There's currently 772 members there

 

I don't know about you, but any car lit in AC lags the **** out of me, even when it doesn't make much smoke...Mostly in starts...The Way GTA4 and GT5 has done is very easy fast sprites and just little more clever then that...

 

Any thoughts about adding TireTemperature under Triggers in tire smoke file ?

 

I like Assetto Corsa.
I'm a bit at a loss as to why the tire smoke has not yet been addressed.
It's not just the animation....it's the sheer volume.
It's just way too much at race launch... in all categories.
Guys....can you fix that please?