How so? All the game has to learn is the way I downshift and upshift on a given track with a given car. Downshifting from high speed into a corner will be one pattern, downshifting from medium speeds between two corners will be another etc. All the game has to learn is when to take the virtual hand off the gear lever or fingers off the paddle and when to leave it/them there. Sounds pretty simple to me.
Perhaps its because devs feel the time and cpu/gpu access it requires isnt worth the effort, rather than it being difficult to implement.
Didn't say it was simple, I just don't think it's as hard as most other parts of the game. No one had real time dynamic weather until a few months ago either. Name any feature and at one time it didn't exist in any racing game so that's a total non-sequitur . Seems a no-brainer to me that no one has tried adaptive AI script on VR because no VR headset is commercially available yet or in widespread use. Once the technology takes off on the consumer end, there will be a ton of effort put into making the experience as real as possible. That's not to say this feature will ever happen, but you can bet the pressure will be from the community and sooner or later someone will take the bull by the horns and work something out, IMO. Pretty sure Facebook didn't throw $2billion at it to have the technology remain stagnant after release. It's pretty clear the the future of gaming is moving towards a total 360 degree, virtual immersion into the game world, this type of feature would seem a logical advancement in racing simulations.
No, no it's not.
Input lag on your typical widescreen tv of 30-50 ms will prevent 1:1 from being a reality for most of us. With really low lag gaming monitors you can get much closer. But that's a different point altogether. For me the biggest issue is in shifting and I think that's a relatively easy problem to solve for the most part. All that's really required is for the game to track your shifting patterns on a typical flying lap and when the gap between shifts is less than "X", the hand is not removed from the shift knob, or fingers from the paddles. It will never be an exact match because laps are never identical, but it should be really close the vast majority of the time. If we could program a number ourselves and fiddle with it, that would be even better.
27" CRT tv vs. 50" widescreen is more like it.
I don't think it's that complicated nor do I think it needs to be done in real time. I'd set it up as a learning process you turn on and off or you can simply pre-program a given time between your downshifts and upshifts before taking your hand off the knob. Most cars have short first gears for example. You could simply tell the game, "keep my hand on the shifter until I select second gear" and it would be right just about all the time. Likewise, your shifting time between the taller gears is usually long, so you could just tell the game, keep my hand on the shifter when downshifting at gear X or below but above X return to the wheel. The animation is already there, there is already some kind of algorithm running in the background for it work. I don't see this as having to be overly complicated to come much closer to realism.
Can I have the source pls? Thx
