I actually had the same question in my head, but never asked it here before. Dont know why. Im a big offroad race fan infact and full dirt track would be best of the best. But meh, for some reason this looks like "not gonna happen", since lots of other stuff are in development already.
Joke aside, your idea - I agree. More gravvel - more fun.
I am a huge fan of rallycross, and it's a shame there are not more tracks. The Fern Bay and Blackwood are good ones, but they are outdated and need an replacement.
Definetly YES! Last few year's arround three rallyx track's (plus reversed versions) is getting a little boring, espesially when allmost all online races are just blackwood rallyX with demo car's
So more rallycross track's and atleast one more powerful 4wd (like DIV 1) rallycross car
This would be kinda interesting for me as well, Subaru Impreza on a rally course with LFS physics... Sounds fun My only question is how long of a track can LFS handle before it crashes due to length?
I don't think so.. Most games use a "Skybox" Technique to render the world in, That's basically so you are not racing in a black box, I know they do a nice job in making it BARE (Meaning, You see it looks greatly detailed, Just go into the SHIFT + U mode and look top down, You'll understand.) But i do agree a skybox has a limit somewhere, I don't think you could accurately model some 500+ mile track with limitations, You'd have to introduce a LOD feature (Most-likely LFS has it) That makes the graphics on the other end of the track not rendered until within 100+ miles, And then it doesn't have to rush, But we're talking about low end friendly tracks, And i think i know why they aren't building us them 500+ mile tracks because the game engine can't handle it or low end users wouldn't be able to play it
Well, when we get the Tyre Physics update, we will have less grip. Having that plus a Full Dirt Rally track would make racing fun, because it would be all about skill, trying to get as much grip as possible to win.
This is a big +1 from me, even though I don't race much
the problem with the tire physics, is the inside tire doesnt get enough grip. nobody but scawen knows how this will affect the actual overall grip level
and i read alot of times that lfs only renders what is visible, thats why if you go out of bounds, but before you get specc'd alot is not rendered, because lfs doesntthink it needs to render oob.
First.. Whats "oob" And next, Spectating is mainly just for they don't want glitchers driving under the map causing all kinds of chaos, And secondly, Just because it doesn't need to be rendered, Doesn't mean it's not there, That "Skybox" if LFS uses one is very limited, I doubt you can even get 500+ miles just going straight, I don't even think "Crysis" Skyboxes allow that, However, The frame rate does drop if objects are rendered are not, For instance, I could paint a car invisible, But have it set to some 500000 poly count, You're still going to encounter the drop because even though it is invisible (To your eyes) The alpha channel is the only thing making it invisible, It's still affected by physics, Time, Etc, the affect is lessened off screen, But not completely "Not rendered" It has to be, Otherwise you would never see another car behind you. =P ( Could be wrong here :schwitz
Do believe we are off-topic though, So, Still +1ing this idea.
but oob means out of bounds...like look up a video of some off roading until you find ont where the guy is almost out of bounds but not quite..alot of stuff isnt rendered
Are you talking about how if you flip out of the track all you see is gray? If so, That isn't "Not rendered" It's just not made all together, That gray matter is the Skybox The map just isn't detailed, It's not ment to be seen over or behind that, Nothing is ment to really, Which was why i said, Look from a top down view in shift+u The default camera modes, You can't see out of the map, If there was heavily detailed mountains behind the tracks.. It'd reduce frame rate ALOT
Finding it hard to understand your text buddy, Inside the track (From your cockpit) Everything looks beautiful, When you look from a certain view, The game looks bad, This isn't a landscaping competition, The LFS tracks from what you see look great.
I would prefer we stop dragging this off topic and take it to some PMs, I'm sure some moderators would seriously come down on us for this (Not assuming, I just don't know the moderators around here, They all sound nice and friendly, But i don't want to get them upset) As i could troubleshoot your problem maybe with pictures, Etc.
My only question is how long of a track can LFS handle before it crashes due to length?
