Automobilista 2 June 2022 Development Update

I think there is some confusion still regarding the use of PC2 assets in AMS2, so let me once again try clarify that

We had a number of tracks and car assets from Project Cars 2 supplied to us with the licensing arrangement for the use of the Madness engine, and that deal went both ways with some of our assets being supplied to them - it was a super helpful arrangement that helped us speed up production of some of these assets considerably, but this was a finite list of assets we requested and mostly already used (only a few more car models to come for AMS2 are still based in the Project Cars 2 models).

For the tracks, we only used their trackside objects - the main terrain & track mesh was always either remade from scratch or heavily modified; the car models in turn had fewer alterations but naturally scratch built physics and sounds.

There are no more track assets to be used and we can´t just keep coming back to that well anymore, not least because the well now belongs to a different owner So the impression we can just keep coming back for more PCars2 assets or that you may see other PCars2 tracks in AMS2 just because they were in PCars2 has no basis in reality.

In a related topic I´m constantly bewildered by the assumption some make that we just "ported" PCars2 assets to AMS2 - you can´t possibly drive any track currently in AMS2 vs their equivalent in PCars2 and still think they are the same

By all means feel free to share this bit of info wide and large folks, as it´s quite a nuisance for our track artists that so many people still think the results of the countless hours spent in these big projects is just a rehash of a model already seen in another game

With regards to the possibility of us doing more "generic" versions of real life tracks, while I wouldn´t outright rule out that possibility it´s heavily unlikely that we would do it specially for a track like Le Mans, which is a massive production that would net little return if we were unable to market its existence in the game. If there is ever a Le Mans in AMS2 (and it´s not impossible there will be), it would be an official, laser scanned version of the track.