Damage Modelling

Yea, I also like to have more information about damage...at least after the race. It happened to me that I spun and touched the wall with "light damage" on the rear. My tyres were hot ofc so I thought this is why I can't control the car as well anymore. I cooled the tyres but that didn't help, so I drove to the pits to change tyres since there could be flatspots that affected the balance somehow (?). Didn't help either. So in the end, I had to repair. I wondered how "light" damage could affect the balance of the car that much but then again I think it depends WHERE on the rear that light damage is. Like..is the aero affected or suspension etc..? But you will never find out as of right now, which I like to see changed.

 

I'm not sure how much real time telemetry the drivers get IRL, this is a cost saving series so there won't be F1 levels of feedback while on track from engineers. It would be cool to see the damage after the race, however it probably creates unnecessary work for the devs. Apart from being cool it doesn't serve a lot of purpose, you're not exactly going to tweak your setup based on car damage (unlike checking tyre condition after a run which is useful). Got to remember they're simulating the real series, it isn't a add every feature possible scenario like AC1.

 

I've been watching a lot of the old races lately and it seems a relatively common thing for the engine to overheat after an excursion in the gravel pits. Sometimes the drivers come in to get the air vents cleaned and sometimes they don't and the engine just overheats. Maybe that's something possible further down the line.

 

Last night @ Zolder, I heavy bumped the car in front of me. From that point on, my car was 2 second/ lap slower and left corners were trickier to manage.

 

I'd like to see secondary effects of buckling the rear end like IRL when the fender rubs the tyre and cuts it up while producing a lot of smoke. Pitstop asap to fix the wheel and fender and go!
Banging up hard could make a wheel fly off too, making you drive a three wheeler back to pits. Those types of damages wouldn't affect any licences since they wouldn't affect body shape visually.

 

Not much relevant to the discussion, but similar, I urge the developers to talk about bumps.

I believe that from the point of view of rational mechanics, on AC and ACC they behave as simple elastic collisions, in the true term of definition precisely, where the total kinetic momentum and energy are preserved almost intact after the impact. This determines that unreal behavior for a car, the type of marbles on a billiard table.

However, by inserting a very simple mathematical attenuation function, or at least a suitable coefficient, to dissipate a large part of the energies of the cars involved, which naturally the deformation on each of them would determine in reality, I am sure that the current behavior of the clashes would become much more simulative.

A function of this type, properly implemented, would be very efficient at the level of CPU time.

 

The Damage Model reminds me of The Crew 2's damage drive 400kms into wall car still mint

 

Sei que não deve ser uma tarefa fácil, mas qualquer Sim que tentar ir mais longe nesse aspecto terá sucesso, porque além da parte estética, modo de colisão realista, detritos de colisão que afetam outros carros, com possíveis danos mecânicos, trariam uma nova imersão no jogo, tenho certeza de que traria uma nova legião de jogadores ao ACC. Veja a pesquisa feita no Racedepartament e veja o que o público dos Sims pensa sobre isso.

https://www.racedepartment.com/thre...damage-in-sim-racing-more-less-enough.186260/