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[Ryno917]

Getting better and better all the time. Really looking forward to this one So much great stuff in the pipeline for AC in the coming months

 

[mantasisg]

It is like driving on ice with that car, I think it would be possible to race them after some beer, because it doesn't exactly require much reaction, it is more about catching slide and countersteering.

I'll stop and pick some beer there, at least after the races 100% sure

 

[Eric Rowland]

taking photos of leaf litter at the edge of the road, and of the weathered ends of wood piles...

That's dedication!

 

[norbs]

I spend too much time racing on it and not enough time working on it

Yes, this. Wanted to start making cam files last night. Need some replays of different types of cars to check cams. 90 minutes later, dead arms and no cams. Oops.

 

[NightEye87]

I was gonna say it needs a Hindenburg added instead of those "immersion breaking" balloons , but it crashed in '37

Looks awesome Alfie, cannot wait!
I see you're using a particular road texture. Will you be adressing it? At Zandvoort I'm so annoyed by those splotches of light at the apex. No idea why they didn't fix this.

 

[Fat-Alfie]

The balloons on the start / finish straight were inspired by a photo of the 1957 German Grand Prix, but could be removed if you find them that offensive.

Graf Zeppelin II was used up until 1940, when the project was shelved. In which case, I should remove the Zeppelin from my track too. To be honest, this track will end up semi-fictional as I have such poor references for both the track, and motor racing at that time. The pit area carries names like Lotus and Cooper (just to pad it out). It was a time before commercialism, when tracks were not festooned with banners and logos advertising products. I have a feeling that a historically correct track would be quite dull to use in AC.

Should I 'pretend' that WW2 never happened, that this circuit did actually get used and developed, and that my track is set in the 1960s? Should I add armcos instead of wooden fencing? Run-off areas?

And yes, with the exception of the pit area and the Russigmuhle Hotel, all textures are only placeholders for now.

 

[NightEye87]

The balloons on the start / finish straight were inspired by a photo of the 1957 German Grand Prix, but could be removed if you find them that offensive.

Haha nooo!! Sorry, I was referring to this gem of a thread: http://www.assettocorsa.net/forum/index.php?threads/balloons.32013/
Keep them, I like them

Yeah, getting it period correct is impossible. As long as it's not done to today's FIM standards, anything is fine

 

[Fat-Alfie]

Sorry, my misunderstanding

I'm still not convinced about including them I love the layout and surroundings of this track, but making it look real is proving to be a nightmare

 

[Ryno917]

I'd prefer to not have any Armcos or runoff - many circuits even in the 60s didn't have them (Spa, for one, but many others - even purpose-built circuits like Mosport didn't have any Armco on the vast majority of the circuit).

I'd recommend looking at as much stuff from the 30s and early-mid 50s as you can find to inspire the atmosphere. Spa, Solitude, Bremgarten, Nurburgring, Donington as it was in the 30s (I only just discovered that yesterday, actually. VERY different from the circuit as resurrected in the 70s in terms of the track surrounds). I think those would all help inform the setting a fair bit.

 

[RayDarcy]

Sorry, my misunderstanding

I'm still not convinced about including them I love the layout and surroundings of this track, but making it look real is proving to be a nightmare

If there are from 1940, do they reflect the aims and standards of the Nazis? If so, it is not appropriate to include them in my opinion. The circuit can be celebrated, the motivation of the Third Reich not required and distasteful.

Interesting dilemma though. How far should recreating reality go? Cigarette advertising seems absolutely acceptable in mods, whereas I'd prefer it was not displayed. The cars were amazing, the enormous Marlboro logo should be forgotten.

 

[Fat-Alfie]

Well, the whole circuit was conceived by the Nazi Party as a huge propaganda machine. Should I scrap the project?

 

[Andreas Knöpke]

Don't be silly.

 

[pafe]

Well, the whole circuit was conceived by the Nazi Party as a huge propaganda machine. Should I scrap the project?

no

 

[aphidgod]

No. And you should include any and all tobacco-related advertising, as appropriate. Editing history so it conforms to certain modern sensibilities is one of the most foolish things imaginable...

 

[Andy-R]

Just add some famous Jewish spectators for balance. Woody Allen, Sacha Baron Cohen, Harrison Ford, Jewde Law, Jewlie Andrews etc.

 

[Jos Swarthoff]

Well, the whole circuit was conceived by the Nazi Party as a huge propaganda machine. Should I scrap the project?

 

[Dave_6]

Well, the whole circuit was conceived by the Nazi Party as a huge propaganda machine. Should I scrap the project?

Absolutely not. If it had tobacco banners/signs, they should be there as well.

 

[ltcars]

If you want to be political correct maybe make a texture folder with the Nazi stuff which you can delete if you don't like them.
But that would be double the work.

 

[formulaHEINE]

Simply don't use any symbols related to the Nazis, especially the tilted swastika. In Germany those sysmbols are forbidden by the law. And the track should work even with the 'less' trackside advertising, like it was back in the day. Bridgehampton has also very few billboards and has a nice atmosphere.

 

[ltcars]

Simply don't use any symbols related to the Nazis, especially the tilted swastika. In Germany those sysmbols are forbidden by the law. And the track should work even with the 'less' trackside advertising, like it was back in the day. Bridgehampton has also very few billboards and has a nice atmosphere.

You can maybe replace the Hakenkreuz with a fantasy logo made, so you know what is meant.