iRacing Screenshots

[Jamie Wilson]

Freshly posted by Greg Hill:

 

[Jonathan Johansson]

Nanananana

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Nice one

 

[Jan Roman]

I don't know why people think iRacing has bad graphics. In my opinion, it has the best graphics I've ever seen on simulator. I don't really like Shift or pCARS style graphics, it's just not right, whereas iRacing quite is.

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Graphics is pretty bad compared to newer titles utilizing DX11.
Car textures are probably the worst part in iRacing. 1024x is way to small for any detail shots.

Lighting i think iRacing is the best in the game by a mile.
But actual graphical models like in PCars or Assetto Corsa is lightyears ahead of iRacing.

When we get this level of graphical models in iRacing i´m a happy customer

 

[Linus Broström]

is there any way to get free camera movement in iRacing while watching replays??

Linus​

 

[Hampus Andersson]

is there any way to get free camera movement in iRacing while watching replays??

Linus​

I´m glad you wrote Linus at the end otherwise i would have no idea who it was

Hit cntrl+F12 then cntrl+Z to free roam.

 

[Greg Carr]

How did you get the black wheels on th MX-5?

 

[Hampus Andersson]

How did you get the black wheels on th MX-5?

Photoshop

 

[Greg Carr]

Photoshop

Ah I was thinking that but since I haven't painted the MX-5 before I wasn't 100% sure

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Ah I was thinking that but since I haven't painted the MX-5 before I wasn't 100% sure

I don´t know how many threads we have created on the iR forums about this thing
they haven´t said a word (staff) so i guess it´s some licensing issue.

 

[Greg Carr]

I don´t know how many threads we have created on the iR forums about this thing
they haven´t said a word (staff) so i guess it´s some licensing issue.

or they never noticed , but i guess i could see having "paintable" wheels could be against some licence agreements. I guess it is no different why you can not download the Williams F1 template from iRacing directly. I heard Williams didn't want their car painted up like a Ferrari or Red Bull. Oh well guess we should be happy that we get to customize the paints on the cars as it is.

 

[Simon Trendell]

I don´t know how many threads we have created on the iR forums about this thing
they haven´t said a word (staff) so i guess it´s some licensing issue.

http://members.iracing.com/jforum/posts/list/525/1485979.page#4146162

To give you guy some idea why this is problematic, like a lot of simulators out there we use spun textures to simulate spin speeds to help give the illusion of the tire spinning. Since those textures need to be translucent, we need to have alpha channels. That means typically we have 4 tire textures we use per car.

To make them color changeable using our current system, we'd need to either do some major wizardry, or duplicate those for every individual car (you wouldn't want everyone to have hot pink tires like you now would you... well maybe you would that's your business).
So for a race with 20 users, that would be 80 additional textures you would need to have. If anyone out there is already complaining about blurry textures, that would add to your problem

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You would also want to not have the tire be one of the 3 colors you have in the picker, which would require us to come up with a new system to do that, we currently have every way of doing that in our paint kit used up for car bodies and numbers.

Adding to the problems, are the specular highlights and environment maps, you would want chrome wheels as an example, while someone else would want flat black.

On the artists end, we also would need to remodel and alter the textures for every tire on every car in the service. That would mean remodeling 8 lod's per tire with 4 tires per car with a stop and spun model required x 30 cars in the service = something like 1920 models. That is a lot more work than it took Kevin to make up a few birds on his free time

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So as you can see, it's not a simple thing, though I wish it was as I want it to. I have to say though, if you had a choice between this or 2048 textures, which one would you rather have? I know what I want (which isn't saying we're going to get 2048 textures, but I want. Brian want bad)

 

[Hampus Andersson]

My new skin, still WIP but should be ready tomorrow i think

Like a BOSS.

 

[Greg Carr]

Nice Hampus, I will have to say the stance and wheels on the Cadillac are the best in the game.

 

[Greg Carr]

The logo on the hood is pain to line up, best I could do and it took an hour just for that

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Agree, the stance is nice

Nice paint! Many that takes inspiration from V8 Supercars.

This one isn´t mine but damn it´s so cool!

 

[Jan Roman]

Hampus, your is great! Greg's is good as well. The only thing that hit my eyes is how low the driver sits, no wonder people complain about the dash and driver's position

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Hampus, your is great! Greg's is good as well. The only thing that hit my eyes is how low the driver sits, no wonder people complain about the dash and driver's position

That´s actually the main problem. In the game we sit way to high.
We should almost be level with the door edge sort of.

So because it´s too high we can barely see the rear-view camera and i know i can´t see my rev-limiter without abnormal FOV.

 

[Hampus Andersson]

The logo on the hood is pain to line up, best I could do and it took an hour just for that

Just to let you know if you wondered... you can make the Cadillac logo on the front disappear.
Just put your painted layers above that Caddy text layer and it should not be visible after that.

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Some more shots of my car, still needs tidying up and tweaking but it will be really nice when finished.
can´t believe my skinner gives this for free to me as well

POWER will follow the cars contours better so PO and ER will be angled upwards slightly.

My name and nationality will also be present on the door next to rear view mirror.
Also to note is there´s two different hoods if you compare this image and the one above. I will go with the one above as it fits the car better.