At my school (IUPUI) they have a huge driving/racing sim facilitiy. Of course the media arts guys help them out with basic design (I've embarked on a few projects they've requested for) but those things generally look bad. I'm talking about worse than PS2 graphics. It's hilarious.
"We need you to design a car for us" "Sure ok" *takes requirements for the design* "the car only has one color sir." "We don't want anything fancy to bog down the systems" "Umm.. ok"
Most of these teams use rfactor pro with a custom physics engine, they test is more for the car and not the tracks so most of them just use the basic isi versions of nurburgring and canada or such with custom physics set ups for the tracks.
I bet you that this simulator doesn't feature damage (at least in the form of spectacular crashes). In fact the visuals in general will be pretty basic I'd wager.
I'd be surprised if they expend much effort modeling damage as there is little value for them in doing so.
Instead I expect this to have near perfect modeling of the car, including aerodynamics, power and all other mechanical components. They need this simulator to supplement on track testing due to FIA testing limitations. I expect this isn't just for the drivers but also for the engineers to try out different settings and "virtual parts" before hitting the track. Visuals are probably near the bottom of the priority list in terms of perfecting the simulation, it's far more important for the car to behave and react as the real car would with different settings, parts etc. on different tracks. That has a far greater impact on the driver being able to learn the feel of the car than awesome graphics. Still I'm sure it's doesn't look like crap either.
Yeah I agree, I didn't expect the damage, I was just quoting what thor said. But I mean 60GB and 10 computers! I realize that a lot of that is for huge mathematical equations that affect physics and so on. But yeah I highly doubt the graphics would be really basic. I mean the cleaner they are the easier it is for the driver to see the track, am I right?
It really is as if the car enthusiasm world doesn't even know theres a true definitive one of a kind racing game out there... whats its name again...?
And this is coming to a gaming device near me, when?
Because GT5 will definitely "turn" heads this time around.
**No pun intended**... no really.
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I bet you that this simulator doesn't feature damage (at least in the form of spectacular crashes). In fact the visuals in general will be pretty basic I'd wager.
That's a lot of horsepower for a videogame! 60Gb ram and 10 computers? lol that's crazy, I wanna see that bad boy in action!