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Thing that looks odd about the dry line to me is that it's very consistent. You'd expect it to be much less distinct along a straight because cars don't tend to drive along the same line.

Having said that it could have been generated by letting the AI drive around for a few laps, which might explain the consistency.


I'm happy it appears they've got the Sun rising and setting in the correct position this time. Would've been incredibly disappointing if they f#%cked that up again.

 

Agree...one of the first things i tested in PC2 demo parked a car on race line and had AI go around me...and dry racing line created where cars went...so i liked that..but it is must have


I wish soon they started showcasing some tech videos How it is made so they show us some timelapse etc.

 

Did they mess the sun position up in AC? It must be one of the most basic things to get right when recreating a circuit.
And about the consistency of the line, it depends. If you switched to dry tyres you wouldn't want to drive anywhere off the dry line, but you're probably right about it just being a line set by AI (if it is actually dynamic).

I didn't even know PCars had that, but if they have it then it's even bigger of a must for AC.

 

Exactly

 

Love the dry asphalt trajectory on the last shot, looks amazing

 

I dissaprove the severe lack of chromatic abbaration. #sad #notmygame

 

To everyone (including myself) with really high hopes on this game:

 

I swear so many UE4 games slap that effect on when posting first screenshots. I almost puke.

Glad ACC has a bit more class.

 

Ever since the thread (you?) posted about this a long long time ago, I've looked at the sun position in screenshots for anything 'sim' with a little suspicion. I don't know if there was ever a reason given for the weird sun in AC but I think I assumed it was down to some peculiarity of the single light source - so I'm going to groundlessly speculate that the new graphics engine means there will be no more sun silliness. You heard it here first!

 

There's no reason why single light source rendering should make the Sun position wrong. I'm assuming it was done with a bit of maths, and someone just screwed it up. For anyone curious, the thread is here. Reading it back makes me feel quite aggrieved that it was pointed out during early access and completely ignored.

As for ACC, I'm assuming UE4 has a built-in physical sun model. That should make it possible to vary time *and* date with correct lighting. Given that it's supposed to be faithfully replicating the Blancpain calendar, and races take place during dusk and throughout the night, I reckon this is fairly critical.

 

Regarding the recent screenshots...






That's midsummer at Brands Hatch, which looks spot-on. Doesn't confirm the date can be changed, but I guess we'll find out in due course.

 

I know that for some people this may be a dealbreaker, and I'm not by any means saying that their wishes don't matter, but I don't think I'd care too much about the sun position changing according to the season.

 

I'm not sure it's a 'dealbreaker' for anyone but it's not a difficult thing to get right, which is why it's quite annoying when it's done wrong.

The Spa 24hr is at the end of July, which means the sun should set at 20:30 and rise at 05:00. If KS were to set some arbitrary date (i.e a solstice, which is sort of what they did with AC) we'd get sunset at 19:00 and sunrise at 06:25. That's a significant difference in a 'simulation', the night being three hours longer. The Paul Ricard race is run through sunset and dusk, but it's six weeks before Spa and much further south, so the sun model needs to accommodate that.

 

IMO if they get it in the same place it is when the race happens it's already fine, having the possibility to choose a season in game and the sun adjusting accordingly would be a bit unnecessary, I think.

 

How often are you going to run a full 24hr race in real time ?
That 3hr difference won't make a bit of difference when scaled 24hrs into 1hr .
Move on people and get a grip !
This stupid argument sounds like the oldies here in Queensland scared their curtains will fade if we get daylight savings ,lol

 

I still think it would be cool that you could choose a month and day (excluding winter months, when tracks aren't used for GT3) for a Custom Event, and that would give correct sun trajectory and amount of daylight hours, and other weather probabilities like air temps, wind and rain, typical for that geographical location and that month. When AC will finally have a weather system, why not do it to perfection and put other sims to shame. Doesn't sound like the hardest detail to get right, compared to dynamic track and wet surface physics stuff etc..

pCars 2 has the "Random weather" option but it's very stupid, because it doesn't see difference with Barcelona or Silverstone weather. There is equal chance for snowing for example, even when race is in Summer. Rain is too common etc. and again same rain probability for any country. And other options in pCars 2 are sub-optimal too, you either select 4 weather slots (no element of surprise) or use real weather on location (which is nice, but in winter months doesn't make any sense)

 

The detail is fantastic. Looking forward.
Imagine driving a country or coste road with your favorite road car with graphics like that.

 

Going to have to keep imagining it for a while me thinks, but all in good time

 

More probably is that it will have a options to read the actual conditions, from a weather broadcast site. Something that CM already do within AC limitations. Also it can be seen at Flight Simulations vanila or weather dedicate plugin.