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

Simon Kaminski · Mar 25, 2013

I guess we can't use the higher resolution of the static scanners anyways since there would be needed to much polygons. (The mesh had to be so tight then...) Polygons are pretty big imo where you have enough room for gaps. Even with static scanners.

And when the end result of the digital track is the same .. why pay more than needed?

Sebastian Wolff · Mar 26, 2013

BTW, anyone else excited about the upcoming release of "the making of assetto corsa" ? I`m absolutely positive we will be getting some highly interesting insight there...

stenyak · Mar 26, 2013

Sebastian Wolff said:
BTW, anyone else excited about the upcoming release of "the making of assetto corsa" ?

Didn't know anything about that. Link?

Sebastian Wolff · Mar 26, 2013

stenyak said:
Didn't know anything about that. Link?

http://www.assettocorsa.net/dev-blog-en/
Hmm, thought it mentioned somewhere earlier that it is going to be a video, anyway, looks like it will still include some insight on the development.

Sebastian Wolff · Mar 26, 2013

"look inside our facilites" and "behind the scenes" is all I`m looking for

stenyak · Mar 26, 2013

Sebastian Wolff said:
"look inside our facilites" and "behind the scenes" is all I`m looking for

They literally say (emphasis mine):

Dev Blog page said:
"[...] we will be collecting videos, pictures and writing a development diary. Soon we will be sharing with the community “The Making of Assetto Corsa” development blog. [...]"

Which to me looks like an early (now outdated) description of what has become the development blog, from a time when no articles had been published yet.

Sebastian Wolff · Mar 26, 2013

I was hoping that it`s not just the dev blog...I`ve been following the timeline since the beginning and still think that "the making of assetto corsa" wouldn`t be announced seperately....

Sebastian Wolff · Mar 26, 2013

Screw it, you are right: "Scroll this timeline to follow the making of Assetto Corsa and to discover what happens behind the scenes of our racing simulation project."

BanjoMaster · Mar 26, 2013

I think they mentioned a 'Making of...' video when they showed the raw laser scan image of the old Monza banking.

Sebastian Wolff · Mar 26, 2013

BanjoMaster said:
I think they mentioned a 'Making of...' video when they showed the raw laser scan image of the old Monza banking.

ya exactly, that`s what I remember too.

Simon Kaminski · Mar 26, 2013

Thanks for hijacking the topic.

Now back to topic

Sebastian Wolff · Mar 26, 2013

Simon Kaminski said:
Thanks for hijacking the topic.

Now back to topic

Yeah, sorry for that.

DennS · Mar 30, 2013

from the Gamermag Interview that was posted on AC Facebook page:

Gamemag: Fans are wondering if there will be a reproduction of the Nordschleife in LaserScan. We know it's a huge effort, but we believe that it would be an incentive impressive. Many fans of simulators scaricherebbero Assetto Corsa only ride on this historic circuit. We are planning to add the Nordschleife?

Marco Massarutto: I wish I could answer that depend entirely on the sales Assetto Corsa will, because the will is there for us all. However, last week the Nordschleife was officially and finally put up for auction for the problems of insolvency of the company management. The first result is that today, there is no partner with which to address these rights, the second is that much will depend on the availability and the economic demands of the new owners, if and when there will be. Whereas under normal circumstances a licensing agreement can take months so you can feel finalized, in the case of Nordschleife I have not given up hope, but to make short-term forecasts yes yes.

Here is the translated interview with Google Translate, worth a read nonetheless...
http://translate.google.com/transla...ovita-su-feature-e-prezzi-da-kunos_index.html

Juise · Mar 30, 2013

some thoughts on the accuracy of laser scanning and fidelity of the physics.

A car that is running 150km/h in a track is doing 4,16meters / 0,1secs -> 41cm in 10ms.

So when looking it this way the accuracy to one or two centimeters is irrelevant.

Hampus Andersson · Mar 30, 2013

Keep in mind the vertical aspect of accuracy too,

but yes, i can´t remember what iRacing´s "final" accuracy is in the game but i think they said centimeter accuracy.

mapu13 · Mar 30, 2013

Some details may be irrelevant at 150 km/h. But having them in place doesn't hurt either.

Simon Kaminski · Mar 30, 2013

U still can't use the details. No PC could render that mesh.

stenyak · Mar 30, 2013

Simon Kaminski said:
U still can't use the details. No PC could render that mesh.

It's not about render, it's about physics. E.g. GPL had infinitely smooth physics surface (over the length of the track, but not over its width), while the render surface was full of visible polygons.

Hannes-Joshua Thor Barthel · Mar 31, 2013

thats why in iracing sometimes the cars are floating over the track or sinking into it, because they are not driving on the visiual graphically rendered road but on a mesh whitch isn't rendered.. and on some points the graphical track isn't 100% alligned with the physical track..
I don't know how it works in AC if there are also 2 surfaces one for graphic and one for the physical contact... or if it is only one