I never liked the look of rFactor, but that is stunning! What track is that btw?

Goldenport. Awesome little track!

Thanks for the surprisingly kind words! Its a hostile sim afterall..

recording the TFT screen with my camera makes it look 'more realistic' and more alive. Most rFactor graphics still look too saturated..

Anyway, this old Escort is one of those cars where you would imagine you just want to floor it and make it scream! When you decide to do so, its quite an experience

This is just one of 14 cars I'm doing, which in turn are just 14 out of ... 40ish cars in the Historic mod, taking most GTL cars and giving them physics as good as they can get with the ISI engine, which is certainly 10x better than GTL made us believe. (in our humble.. well.. not so humble.. opinion )

I hope that my 14 cars really make a difference; I spent LOTS of hours making a tool in Excel that simply creates the physics files for me. I won't be tweaking individual cars apart from their car setup values. All the 'rules' for tyres, suspensions, aero etc are in excel. I simply tell it what type of car it is and it spits out the files. The result of it all, sofar, is very promising. It also relies on real, or at least more real than before data regarding a few key parts (tyres, engines, suspensions .. aero..).. The GTC 76 class has a 700kg Porsche 906 and also 1400kg Corvettes.. and tyres between 215 and 355mm wide. Sofar they all seem to work quite nicely!

Wow... looks stunning!

Doesn't anyone else find it ironic that the "I hate ISI physics" guy is almost the only person able to produce half decent physics with their engine?

I only wish that there was a moddable game that was more worthy of your talents!! (DR :weeping

the irony of using spreadsheets to create spreadsheeds you can drive a hovercraft over
either way looks really good for an rfactor car but i refuse to get excited over that sim

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but i refuse to get excited over that sim

Hehe! Way to go on the open mind!
Just kidding, we all have our priorities. I know I'm jumping at the chance to try the new Niels masterpieces. The C6 is awesome!

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rTractor = :gnasher:

rCraptor

Hmm, so the final mod requires GTL, at least the discs?

Good luck with those cars anyway. Very interesting cars too

Yeah, you can have GTL for 10 euro though, and you don't have to install it, just insert the cd as a proof of ownership.

I think I quite like the idea of some rFactor nonbelievers / haters to betatest these cars. I have yet to ask the team if they're ok with adding a few betatesters but if they are, anyone up for it?

I need to download and install rFactor again, I neither love it or hate it but i'd be willing to test some of these new cars out. That Escort looks so much more fun than it is in GTL.

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Hmm, so the final mod requires GTL, at least the discs?

Good luck with those cars anyway. Very interesting cars too

Power and Glory mod was _supposed_ to require GTL discs too.. except you can simply unpack their installer with 7-zip and copy the files manually. The CD check was in the installer... :doh:



Regards,

Ian

two short bits:

Magny C..oops!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klN1rZ7slRE

Im.. olala!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL33QedFZiw

With a bit of luck I'll tape some bits from all the cars and do a proper video tomorrow!

Quote from Niels Heusinkveld :

I think I quite like the idea of some rFactor nonbelievers / haters to betatest these cars. I have yet to ask the team if they're ok with adding a few betatesters but if they are, anyone up for it?

Certainly

I'm game!

Quote from Niels Heusinkveld :

I think I quite like the idea of some rFactor nonbelievers / haters to betatest these cars. I have yet to ask the team if they're ok with adding a few betatesters but if they are, anyone up for it?

Yessir!

Quote from Niels Heusinkveld :

I think I quite like the idea of some rFactor nonbelievers / haters to betatest these cars. I have yet to ask the team if they're ok with adding a few betatesters but if they are, anyone up for it?

Sure I'd give it a go...

I'd also like a chance to try the cars out i can give input, but i am very busy right now

Quote from Niels Heusinkveld :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKy9fc7Kqc0

the escort!

Looks great! I guess i have to reinstall rfactor

Quote from Niels Heusinkveld :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKy9fc7Kqc0

the escort!

When I "ctrltabbed" to the video i thought to myself, hmm, nice, first he shows some RL footage so we can see how it moves in the real world,and only after the RL part some footage from rF, and only after a few seconds I realised that it was ingame :O top notch stuff

About Niels' avatar... it that more like 80 now?

edit: sig -> avatar

u mean avatar i presume. i just tried recording a video of me doing a lap w/ the corvette 2.0, and my camera picked up a high pitched noise coming from my pc that my ears dont normally detect... hehe.

people are gonna crap their pants when the historic gt/tc mod comes out.

Niels,; id like to test to

Niels! You bastard, if you continue to make so great cars I may have to buy rFactor . Keep up the good work!

I wouldn't mind giving these cars some testing Niels...