Hello everyone! I have been curious about how cars for modern racing sims are being modeled for a long time. How do cars perform differently? Do "modders" or producers of racing games have to model them the ways they are in reality - basing on CAD-drawings or scans or that kind? What makes the difference between two cars of the same class? Are we still talking about a "game" (meaning we make one car more "drivable" than another one for example) or is it more than that? And if so - what is the difference between a car produced by a modder in comparison to one that comes from the game developers themselves? Who can tell, if a car in game is "good" or "not good" - meaning who can distinguish between a car from a modder and a car from the game developer, which costs money? If we download a car model from a modder - it will most propably drive like a car would drive. But we'd never know, if it handles "realistic" or not, because the least people will ever have driven such a car. Neither will we ever know this about a car from the game designers themselves. So summing up: 1. What is the data basis of car models? 2. How to know, if a mod (or a new car) is good or bad? With tracks, this seems obvious. Drive in real life to the track, take a walk or drive on the track and get your impression of the likelyness of digital track compared with the real track. But with cars? Thanks for your thoughts, herakles
I have no idea “what’s under the hood” so to speak in the software code. But it must be somewhat simplified. As an example I recently used, think of a shock damper. Are they really modeling a piston traveling through oil and the effects of the temperature of that oil on the characteristics of the damper? I highly doubt it. Point is, I don’t think you can take any car model and say this is real, this is exactly how this car will perform in real life. Just different tires alone perform vastly differently when you’re talking about driving at the limit. AC would seem to show that modders can do a good job in making a car look real. Some are really good. But drive “real”? Not sure anyone can achieve that.
