I originally planned to model those drilled holes but i quickly realised it was gonna be massively labour intensive and tri heavy (20k tris iirc), which I decided probably wasn't worth it as no one really bothers looking that close... I see I was wrong
I originally planned to model those drilled holes but i quickly realised it was gonna be massively labour intensive and tri heavy (20k tris iirc), which I decided probably wasn't worth it as no one really bothers looking that close... I see I was wrong
From Quick Silver: An Investigation into the Development of German Grand Prix Racing cars 1934-1939:The AC car has a 4 speed gearbox, so I guess the upcoming iterations will have a 5 speed box?
1936 - 1937 Auto Union Type C Specifications - Ultimatecarpage.com
1936 - 1937 Auto Union Type C: 36-shot gallery, full history and specificationswww.ultimatecarpage.com
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I'll have a look at tyre wear again, though I did 4 laps of Fonteny yesterday (all you can do on a full tank) and the rears were shot after the first 2 laps...
That lap is scary to watch tbh, super on the limit. Really I have no idea if the pace is correct or not, but I am sure self-preservation would have been a major factor in how they drove these cars, and also I have no idea how accurate the track is.
Technically yes, but I think it would be a worse compromise; To do that the bars themselves would have to have the holes textured onto them (right now its a separate mesh for the hole texture), which would mean lose the AO to have them mapped on top of each other to save texture size, or use a large texture and keep the AO. But regardless I'd lose the ability to use a multimap shader to get the transparency, which I dont want.
ksPerPixelMultiMap_AT, has the whole shebang of multimapness with alphatest? Or if you feel extra fiddly ksPerPixelMultiMap_AT_NMDetail? Just line up the uvmap so that the detail texture holes find their way on the sides of the mesh and you get normal mapped holes too. Should be easy to do, easily done less than in a month j/k! There is also the sandtrap shader (ksPerPixelMultiMap_NMDetail) which switches to different nm texture at close range although that might look really weird. It is used on sand traps so one nm texture creates the sand dune effect while the other texture creates the sand nm effect at closer range.
They were red for the whole 4th lap (and some/most of the 3rd iirc), enough that balance was an issue and despite me driving better and learning the track more, I was a decent amount slower than the previous laps.I have not driven Fonteny yet, but it looks hella long. Must try someday. It looks awesome.
When you say that rears were shot, do you mean that they were on yellow or red indication color ?
I have used this video as referance for tire wear, tells that the tire was shred in four laps of Nordschleife.
I assume that is what should happen if you go maximum attack with this car. In your source text it is said that Mercedes had more problems. I guess mercedes was wearing tires more if pushed to the limits.
I have a bit reading through the book I have, and I think may have had these lines missed, or I am just confused right now. It states that Mercedes engine ran 4mpg, but later as they developed the engine it went up to 2.5mpg. I don't know whats the fuel tank size of your car, but I guess it is about 400 liters ?? , which would make it about 2mpg for 22 laps of old donington, I guess, you are right that would probably mean that it is more likely too high. It may be that I did mess up W125 consumption a bit, by making it too high, iiric.
By the way, I just learned that W125 later used extra fuel tank in front of the driver, so I suppose it must have ended with something about 500L of fuel
I would guess that they were rear tire limited indeed, because all pictures of pitstops there is in a book - the rear tires are being changed, and fuel is being filled in. Interesting fact from the book, Mercedes were capable to fill 5 gallons per second and change the rear wheels in less than half of a minute, that is very impressive.
