Dynamic Weather Discussion

Yeah, I was referring exactly to the slope of those curves. What I was asking was whether the slope was fixed and slow (i.e. that the conditions deteriorated with a slow progression between dry and storm), or whether it was possible to have a drastic change in weather(according to the cloudiness of the sky), even from dry to heavy rain in 1-2 minutes, as it happens in reality when the rain suddenly surprises you without warning you with a light drop of rain. From your answer it would seem possible, thank you.

 

Exactly. That's what I wanted to know. Thanks for amazing job!

 

What does Precipitation do and why is not enabled in custom configuration mode?

 

Just a quick one - Is there any chance we can see weather forecast while driving, not only in pits. Also ambient temperature seems to be missing ? How do we know if its 10 or 40C outside? Driver would certainly feel those things even without a thermometer on track... Seems a bit odd that we can't see that.

 

Oh okay, so forecast only appears if there's change coming. Good to know. As to temperature a basic track/ambient temp would suffice me thinks. I mean it's not exactly rocket science and pretty sure all GT teams have at least one thermometer in handy or they can google their location and it will give them the temperature

 

It's ok Precipitation is enabled once cloud cover => 60%

 

Why not having all weekend random, starting from 1st session?
I don't really get why setting 1st session's weather.

And btw, I tried with some variaty but most of the time it was just raining (less or more), but when lots of standing water on track (and off it) there was really not much rain falling, steange view, almost no rain from the sky, but lots if puddles.

One more thing, for me, best weather forcast and its implementation was in pra-old GP4 from Crammond. Take a look, maybe you guys get some ideas. Not saying do the same, but just to see how the forcast was made and how weather then evolved actually. Great stuff, specially for the time being, in late 90s.

 

100% agree just been playing and the fact that you have to pre determine the start of a race (if you only do a race) feels a bit unauthentic.

Definitely needs a random weather at start, then you can choose the variation. Hopefully be added for full release.

p.s never got my random temp etc added for AC

 

I don't quite understand this, can someone explain me this? So the weather will get to rain and back to dry faster, but the track will be "lagging behind" the changes? If i understand it correctly, that's a big no-no for me

 

It's not going to lag, just make the weather change very quick compared to what you'd get in real life. That doesn't mean anything will lag...

 

You totally missed the point. I want an information, and that's it. I'm not criticiseing the devs or whatever went by in your mind. I'm not a native english speaker

Then explain me what this "It will give you a faster weather progression, while the corresponding track conditions will still be updated in realtime" means, if i'm wrong?

 

Instead of using high variability when setting up the weather, an accelerated time can be used for the same purpose. That way actual time will progress faster rather than having in game time tick as slow as real life but have very high weather variability which will lead abrupt weather changes (think of the extremes like 1 min of thunderstorm followed by 3 minutes of sunshine followed by another 2 mins of rain etc)

 

Don't quite understand where is the problem. You rather have dry track after just one lap when weather changes quickly? Or normal speed? Only weather transition affected and surface condition being normal speed seems good to me.

 

A'right, this explains everything, thank you.

 

@Aristotelis @pankykapus @Minolin
I've some question about the whole system, maybe it's already explained but i don't find this king of info anywhere...

The weather is related to time multiplier, ok, but is the same for the track conditions?
I mean:

1- Track going from green to optimal. I just don't care weather, let's make an example where is always sunny, is this possible only by track usage, right? so time multiplier don't change anything in this situation, right? But, into a running session, let's say a 24h race, can the optimal status and so ideal line go back a little bit if only few cars remaining on the track?

2- Track status going from dry to wet. Is it related to weather (and so, related to time multiplier) or the changing phases dry->wet / wet->dry are always simulated by the real time (time multiplier x1)?

3- Track going from wet to dry. Is possible to see the track slowly dries by itself without any car on track? If yes, is this phase always fixed, or is it related to weather (sunny / some clouds / heavy overcast, obviously no rain...) and air temps?

I know could be boring answer to this, but know how the system work is important for us when build up a server or some organized race...
Thanks.

 

Pretty much real life apart from this variability term that has to be there to please sim racers these pests