rFactor 2 and BTCC: Thruxton Announced for the Sim!


After getting Croft Circuit yesterday, now we get another British race track for the rFactor 2 Q4 update. Thruxton Motorsports Centre is coming. Fully Laser Scanned.

This reveal marks the third racing circuit to be added to this content drop. Studio 397 seems to be really stepping up the pace right now.

The Track Itself​

Thruxton is one of these British circuits. You know the ones. The ones based on the premises of a former Royal Fair Force airfield.

In the 50s was when the first motorsports activities began to appear at Thruxton. First, there were only motorcycles. These circuit configurations, running until 1964, used part of the runways and part of the perimeter roads.

1968 was when Thruxton, as we know it today, was first raced at. In those days, it hosted Formula Two and the FIM Endurance World Championship.

More racing organisers piled upon the premises in the 70s, including Formula 5000, British F3 and the BTCC. The BTCC has been hosted on the circuit since 1979, Thruxton, therefore, surviving multiple generations of British touring car regulations.

The Q4 Content Drop So Far​

Up until now, the Q4 content drop releases the following DLC:
Furthermore, tomorrow will feature the ACTUAL last piece of content for the Q4 drop, probably. So far, that reveal is only known to not be a BTCC-related car.

EDIT: Yet another track will grace the presence of rFactor 2 as the last Q4 piece of content!

How do you find Thruxton coming to rFactor 2? Let us know in the comments down below!
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pre9v
kart1 said:
Nice surprise, after croft another track that never laser scanned finally arrives on a sim! good choice! :thumbsup:
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Thruxton

Version 2.0 release notes: What started as a ‘quick job’ to add extra grid spots turned into a several weeks long complete reworking of the entire track using LiDAR data. Key updates listed below: Track layout and elevations completely...
www.racedepartment.com www.racedepartment.com

Laser scanned for a year and a half, and free!
 
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pre9v said:

Thruxton

Version 2.0 release notes: What started as a ‘quick job’ to add extra grid spots turned into a several weeks long complete reworking of the entire track using LiDAR data. Key updates listed below: Track layout and elevations completely...
www.racedepartment.com www.racedepartment.com

Laser scanned for a year and a half, and free!
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LIDAR and laser scanning is a stark difference.
 
Trebor901
pre9v said:

Thruxton

Version 2.0 release notes: What started as a ‘quick job’ to add extra grid spots turned into a several weeks long complete reworking of the entire track using LiDAR data. Key updates listed below: Track layout and elevations completely...
www.racedepartment.com www.racedepartment.com

Laser scanned for a year and a half, and free!
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It's not right at all. For a start church corner is all wrong
 
Trebor901
boxer said:
How so? Lidar is done with a Laser.
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Pretty sure it would have been done from map coordinates and pictures. No race track would let in someone to laser scan the track to create a mod there'd be a huge bill for closing the circuit then licencing to use it in a game.
 
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I was more picking on the "Lidar" vs Laser wording which didn't make sense. As Lidar still uses a laser for scanning.
 
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Trebor901 said:
Pretty sure it would have been done from map coordinates and pictures. No race track would let in someone to laser scan the track to create a mod there'd be a huge bill for closing the circuit then licencing to use it in a game.
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uhmmmm it's been done, a-lot ever since iRacing started it. Currently rF2 has something like a half dozen LASER scanned tracks, not Lidar, from what I know, Lidar is like a lower detail scan while the actual hiring of a crew & trucks to complete a fullblown laser scan is what adds to the cost of laser scanned tracks. For that matter, I think many track owners have paid to have the tracks scanned rather than surveyed.
I think this might make a good article for the Race Dept contributors. The difference between Laser & Lidar.
 
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Momperface said:
wait.. so rf2 cars are just modders making them sold as official conttent?
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Granted, ISI gave it for free, but they had the 3PA thing before they stopped with rF2. Kunos ended up licensing some very good modded cars etc.
But it all depends on how you look at it. It's not exactly rare that outsourcing happens. The ByKolles prototype was a free mod-car, it might be that the Vanwall-work isn't done for free.

Also, we've had 5 announcements so far. With one more thing to come, that's the biggest pack so far. It helps to outsource at times.
 
Trebor901
davehenrie said:
uhmmmm it's been done, a-lot ever since iRacing started it. Currently rF2 has something like a half dozen LASER scanned tracks, not Lidar, from what I know, Lidar is like a lower detail scan while the actual hiring of a crew & trucks to complete a fullblown laser scan is what adds to the cost of laser scanned tracks. For that matter, I think many track owners have paid to have the tracks scanned rather than surveyed.
I think this might make a good article for the Race Dept contributors. The difference between Laser & Lidar.
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But surely in this instance it would be a full blown scan of all these BTCC tracks especially when the series organisers are pretty adamant on the realism side of things hence it taking so long for a new game/content to become reality. Alan Gow has stated many times that a new game would need to simulate the real thing as best it can.
 
AngryWolfCorey
boxer said:
I was more picking on the "Lidar" vs Laser wording which didn't make sense. As Lidar still uses a laser for scanning.
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They are the same thing. "Laser scanning" is a marketing term for end user lay people & the process that lidar does where lidar is the actual overall technology. Technically speaking, lidar is one of several forms of remote sensing. It stands for light detection and ranging.

This is a general response, so, forgive me if you know all of that.
 
AngryWolfCorey
Julian Strasser said:
LIDAR and laser scanning is a stark difference.
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This is incorrect unless you mean laser scanning as that fake lidar using photogrammetric points.

You are probably mistaking different forms of lidar for another (aerial vs mobile vs ground etc) which all have varying degrees of point density & thus accuracy & quality. But lidar is not different than laser scanning. Lidar is the technology, laser scanning is the action of using lidar & a marketing term created for end user lay people.
 
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Base on discord people are saying it's another track... my guess is another BTTC piece of content.
 

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