Vehicle Parts in Mirror

I would really like if we could see our own car on the mirror like in the images below.
I think that since AC is growing each day and becoming a game that is so focused on details, we should have this as well.

Of course, being optional would be a must for people who dislike this.



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Cheers!

EDIT: I just used the images as example, don't want sound like "other games have so I demand AC have too!". Maybe I should use real images instead.

 

This is a must in my book, just doesn't make sense when you realise you can't see your own car.

 

The same goes for using the look back in cockpit view.
R3E then shows the back of the car, spoiler (and its position).

 

I never noticed this till now,damn.ahaha

 

From one of Stefanos streams I think the answer was "not gonna happen" - it's possible, but too much of a performance hit IIRC.

Someone modders apparently have it on their cars.... not seen any personally though.

Edit: Thinking again, that might have been the response to fully 3D positional mirrors.

 

In reality you would see much less than in those pictures.

Since most people aren't enough aware of the cars around them already, no thanks.
At least not in MP (virtual mirror and heliocorsa should be a requirement …).

 

Yes I remember that question, to be honest I'm don't even know exactly what they were talking about but I almost sure that wasn't about this.

The Camaro GT3 "has" it. But it's fake, if you see a replay from another angle for example the part does not move on the mirror.

 

That was about cars being reflected on the reflections as a whole I think. Like if you look at the hood of your car you don't see a car in front of you reflected.

Multiple mirrors, and adding visible objects to the mirrors, would definitely affect performance though. You sorta have to do both because from the current single mirror's perspective you'd see the rear window from every mirror.

 

I use the virtual mirror as well in MP, but would be nice if the real one showed the correct parts, specially for replays and to check other player during qualify. I'm a sucker for replays in AC.

 

If you want more realism in OW, lower the position of your seat until you can barely see out of the thing.
I'm doing it semi-realistically with a position in between and find it very annoying that approx. 70% of the time I can't see a thing (e.g. the opponents, the apex etc.) because that f**king steering wheel is in my way.

 

That would definitely be an immersion boost, which is a weak part of AC IMO. As stated, should not appear in the virtual mirror cause, well, its virtual after all. But for other mirrors, that would be amazing.

 

People need to realize that the mirrors are picture in picture - that means basically another scene fully rendered within the current scene. Adding more visible stuff there will have a significant frame-rate impact. Take DCS Worlds for example - mirrors can still murder FPS even on beast machines.

 

I'm sure that you would have the option to turn if off if this option ever shows up some day.

I play DCS World, you are right, on that game the mirror are framerate eaters. Although It's not the cockpit itseld that is so impacting in this case, it's the mirror distance and the huge map that would not be rendered if you were looking just straight ahead. Although, I would say it's worth using now. It got much better in the last versions.

I'm not comparing games but on other platforms, this features has no significant impact loss and I don't believe it would have on AC as well since it can do wonders already and have relatively smooth FPS for what it can show.

That's what I think anyway, only Kunos could say if it would be framerate caos like you say.
I think it's more like "How much users would like this x Time to develop."

 

Include it as an option, like the frame eating reflection settings...

Other games/sims have had this for years.