Stefano Casillo moves on to new adventures from Kunos Simulazioni

maybe we'll try next month. I found that streams do slow me down quite a bit because working and talking is pretty tiring... I ended up napping all day after a morning stream

These weeks we're really trying to push and concentrate hard to see how much difference there is with the development rhythm doing streams. Really want to get this game done before next summer comes.

 

Thanks.
Only a little "scoop"
Your engine or Unigine or still wait and see?

 

I am going to finish the game with my own engine in Rust, so Unigine is out.

 

Wow, so you did it!
Congrats.

 

Stefano it's months since last stream.
Is there something new to show? I mean, just a picture

 

Those capsizes look cool but how do you not spill your beer when that happens? Some special balancing App ?

 

It’s bloody awesome.

 

now imagine a motion rig while capsizing....

 

only need a bucket with water placed over the players head, and a cord attached to that motion rig!

 

I didn't know about Twitter.
Thanks Mino

 

Hydrofoil Generation on Steam, planned release date: Q2 2022.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1448820/Hydrofoil_Generation/

 

Stefano talent is unbelievable. My jaw dropped at those screenshots.

Probably one of the top simulation devs in the world.

Crazy how impressive is that he wrote game from ground up in what 2 years?

This might be bigger leap than netkar or ac.

How many other sailing simulations are there to learn from.

 

Lord, if you will need a beta tester for low/old pc specs...

 

He did all that by himself.

 

I think the 3D models are his wife's (not that it subtracts from the general feeling of awe, though. Now that I think of it, maybe it adds to it).

 

Stefano ma le imbarcazioni dell'AC 2000-2007 non ci sono più?

 

@stefanoCasillo I was curious about how the physics of sailing compares to the physics of motorsport - is it simpler or more complex? In which is the physics better understood?

 

I'd say boats are easily at least 1 order of magnitude less complex to simulate than cars.

A boat is essentially a single rigid body with a movable ballast (the crew).. a car is a multibody with at least 5 bodies (1 chassis + 4 wheels) connected in a very complex way through the suspension... it also has a kind of movable ballast in the form of fuel tank and more bodies if you start to add things like chassis flex.

On the top of that a car has engines, drivetrain with difficult to model stuff such as differentials and clutches and, obviously tyres... plus wings with ground effect and all sorts of crazy flow interactions... electronic controls such as active differentials, active wings.. it's bananas with turtles all they way to the bottom .

A boat has 2 main components, the displacement component (the hull in the water) and sails/foils .. that are, essentialy wings.
The displacement component can get really complex because of the interaction with the water below.. but once the boat is foiling the simulation is basically like a flight simulator with wings operating in fluids with 2 very different densities (air and water)... so basically 1 set of simple equations for everything.

The number of parameters to "nail" is also not a contest at all.. approaching thousand maybe for a car in a software like AC to maybe a couple of dozens in my current sailing game.

Obviously there are some tricky things.. the process of "ventilation" is a fascinating one to model, where air get sucked down into the foil and creates a bubble that kills the lift on that foil and the foil attached.. this has a very profund effect on how the game plays, so getting it right is almost as important as nailing tyre behavior in a car sim as it defines the behavior "at the limit".

 

So you're saying you made a boat simulation because cars are too complex for you?

Jokes aside, I've had moments where I disagreed with your decisions, but AC was my first and pretty much only sim until the release of ACC, and the two of them are now my main sims by far, and even if that wasn't the case, there's no denying the quality of your work for driving simulators and the fact that you've left your mark on the sim racing genre.
I wish you're as successful on your current endeavour as you were on your previous ones, Stefano.