Nordschleife - laserscanned?

Simon Kaminski · Feb 25, 2013

Hello, I have seen in the launcher files, that we get teh Nords.
(X:\Games\AC_TechPreview\launcher\themes\default\graphics\64\track-ring_icon.png)

Laserscanned?

Ps: I posted this in the AC Forums but it got closed. Trying my luck here now hehe.
http://www.assettocorsa.net/forum/index.php?threads/nordschleife-laserscanned.506/

Feel free to post presumptions

Hampus Andersson · Feb 28, 2013

ChrisLTD said:
The crew behind iRacing were the first people to do a proper sim version of the Nurburgring back when they made Grand Prix Legends.

And you don´t think that has anything to do with the fact that they were creating an F1 sim where Nords was on the calendar?

Michael Hornbuckle · Feb 28, 2013

Iracing has stated that even if they had the scan data it would take all of their artist at least a year or more to complete the track...

they already have 2 to 3 years worth of tracks to work on currently and have tracks that they scanned back in 2008 that aren't completed....there is no way they are going to work on one track for more than a year that nobody will race on and most users computers would most likely not even be able to run. (this is a major reason Long Beach hasn't been completed)

Michael Hornbuckle · Feb 28, 2013

Not to start a sim war or anything, but there is an entire list of features and such that GPL and Nascar 2003 had that still hasn't made it into iracing.

Back on topic, The Ring would make a great Day 1 DLC; seeing how that's all the rage nowadays.

ChrisLTD · Feb 28, 2013

Hampus Andersson said:
And you don´t think that has anything to do with the fact that they were creating an F1 sim where Nords was on the calendar?

Absolutely. But even with GPL they didn't model the 67 season exactly. They left off the Bugatti circuit and added in Rouen. If they didn't want to do the Ring, they could have found a reason not to.

I'm sure they'd love to have every track they could in iRacing, but Michael is right. Given limited resources and iRacing's focus on fostering multiplayer racing, it doesn't make sense for them to do the Ring.

TLiivo · Feb 28, 2013

Since when was this thread about iRacing?

Scott Webber · Feb 28, 2013

yeah guys please stay on topic.

BanjoMaster · Feb 28, 2013

Back on topic, I hope that the fans would recognise the undertaking involved in scanning the Ring (if that's what we're looking at) and then bringing it up to the level of the other tracks we've seen, and would be grown up enough to pay up accordingly. I personally would be happy to pay a fairly decent fee for the track as DLC, and I'd loudly support Kunos if this is what they chose to do. It'd be madness commercially if they didn't charge for it.

Hampus Andersson · Feb 28, 2013

I´d pay $100 easy for a laserscanned Nords.

Taranta · Feb 28, 2013

Hampus Andersson said:
I´d pay $100 easy for a laserscanned Nords.

+1

Ralf Ääro · Feb 28, 2013

I think its not about the price. Its about the immense work, that have to be done. When they would start today with scanning, then the Nords would be ready in 2016 or so.

A good thing would be, that the PCs then should be able to manage a LaserSchleife.

Hampus Andersson · Feb 28, 2013

Thavron said:
I think its not about the price. Its about the immense work, that have to be done. When they would start today with scanning, then the Nords would be ready in 2016 or so.

A good thing would be, that the PCs then should be able to manage a LaserSchleife.

I doubt it would take that long.
Laserscan (AC style) would take one day tops.
And building the track i would guess a year at most.

Yea people say it will be heavy but since there are trees covering nearly the whole track there´s not that much that needs to be rendered on screen.

Michael Hornbuckle · Feb 28, 2013

it's not that it is graphically heavy, there is a Ring for just about every sim out there and they run just fine....it's that a certain sim that we are no longer mentioning codes things differently than everybody else....

Even though it would hurt, I too would also pay $100 for a laser scanned version in AC..just give me a couple months to save up for it..hint hint Aris...like tell me now lololol

ChrisLTD · Feb 28, 2013

It's roughly 4 times the length of modern grand prix tracks. I'd be willing to pay accordingly.

Marcel Pfister · Mar 1, 2013

Hampus Andersson said:
I´d pay $100 easy for a laserscanned Nords.

Taranta said:
+1

+1

Daniel Plaikner · Mar 1, 2013

A solution could be that Kunos sponsors the 1 day to get the laser scan data and then providing the data to the modding community

This would be a huge advantage to closed environments like iRacing

Erik Hafner · Mar 1, 2013

You realy think you can scan it in one day?

Michael Hornbuckle · Mar 1, 2013

From everything I have gathered it is already scanned and the data is for sale....whether Kunos has enough money and man power to build the track is the question...