PHYSICS Tyres! oh... it's raining...

Thanks again, I'm personally fine with that. I think this will be the main point some people will cry about, my crystal ball predicts videos with people parking the car on the line and shouting "simcade"

 

Maybe isn't the correct thread to asking it, but will the AI suffer all these dynamic conditions?
If not, won't the offline races be more difficult regardless of AI level?

 

IIRC the AI has the same physics, I can't see how they could not suffer from the same conditions.

 

Could you elaborate a bit on this? Is it like in AC where the grip is the same on every part of the track? Or is there a racing line, just not "dynamically generated" but "scripted", while still having different amount of grip *on* and *outside* the line as you drive along?

 

I think it's pretty clear that different parts of the track will have different grip.

 

Hi Aristotelis, a couple of questions if I may?

Does the AI use the same real time tyre model as the player, the same physics solver, damper model etc. or are some parts, understandably, simplified?
With the track model/grip/wetness being somewhat scripted has this made it easier to keep track conditions synced across all players when in multiplayer? This is an area in which some other titles have struggled in my opinion.

Keep up the good work, thanks for the insightful posts, I look forward to checking everything out for myself come release.

 

I have a question regarding the pressures. Why do teams run a little bit lower than optimum? Is there any reason you can share or is it secret? Is it maybe because over the optimum point the fall off is bigger than below and the risk going over it is high?

 

Not the best decision IMO. Main point of all theese apps was to simplify user's work for creating and monitoring decent setup (since most of us don't have an engineer team and all weekend to make setup for single race).
Now we will just have to spend even more time on that instead of actually racing (of course if someone want to in the last places he can skip this part), that's sort of depressing.

 

^^^ I think most people would be best placed extracting the most out of the track, optimising their race line, working on their consistency then trying to get the last tenth or two out of the cars setup.

 

Hi Aris.
Any possibility to have a little video of tarmac going dry to wet?
Or a timelapse showing clear sky to rainy clouds?

ciao

 

I'm referring to the different timing in reactions between humans and AI, not to a "no-physics" for AI.
Maybe I wrote it in a bad english. My fault.

A human that enconunter a puddle have to "read" that event and react with a "human speed".
But AI?

It's not a problem of AAC. I've been asking me for a long time: as the level of reality in a simulation increase, will the humans suffer the new interactions with the ambient (sun in the eyes, fog, less visibility) compared to the "speed" of an AI?

 

03:42 <--- click on me!

Thank you for another informative read. I'm sure you will receive a lot of positive feedback in regards to your physics, rain tires, surfaces and aquaplaning in the next few weeks.

However I most recently watched a video made by your team (video and timestamp linked above) where the car drives over several puddles, while making a strange (at least unfamiliar to me) engine stuttering sound.

Now I've never driven a GT car and would like to know whether that's what it does in real life (when speeding over a shallow/mid-sized puddle) or if it was an early development test video just showing what you had accomplished by late June?

 

Wow, fantastic reading. Thanks @Aristotelis .

We know you are busy and have a lot of info on your mind. Really appreciate the time you took to put it down in words. I think this should be part of a document/manual that needs to be placed somewhere (knowledge-base)

Cannot wait for more of this, particularly the aero stuff.

 

I didn't know it was running on slicks and you won't get an argument from me. Thanks for clearing that up!