Q&A with Slightly Mad Studios: Ian Bell [Read OP]
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@IanBell @The_American Will you guys be updating anything that has changed on tracks that are returning from PCars1? I speak of Monza specifically, where they plan to get rid of the tarmac runoff at Parabolica and change the first turn chicane.
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I agree with you, Bleeder. Racing the Porsche GT4 clubsport on Assetto Corsa I really like the look of the paddle moving and hearing the awesome change of the gearbox.
If Pcars 1 had this feature it certainly did not stand out as much, unless my memory is fading on me. Did Pcars just model the fingers moving, or the paddle as well? I need to go back and check.
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Both paddles and fingers. But I agree that it wasn't that visible. Also I think hand model in pCARS is bit huge 
Fully enjoy PC1 and part 2 is looking like the most complete racing game yet. I do have a few questions;
1. Will we be able to choose the cars we race against? Who knows, I would like to create a race with like 4 c7.r gte's, maybe a porsche thrown in and a few ford gtlms. I'd like to pick and setup my own field of cars essentially.
2. Will there be a track creator? Always wanted to make my own track and race on it.
3. Is there an exact number set for car and track roster yet? 175 cars and 62 tracks would be a rough guess for me.
4. And lastly will there be drag strips?
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1. Will we be able to choose the cars we race against? Who knows, I would like to create a race with like 4 c7.r gte's, maybe a porsche thrown in and a few ford gtlms. I'd like to pick and setup my own field of cars essentially.
2. Will there be a track creator? Always wanted to make my own track and race on it.
3. Is there an exact number set for car and track roster yet? 175 cars and 62 tracks would be a rough guess for me.
4. And lastly will there be drag strips?
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IIRC no specific car selection, only vehicle classes, of which there are 30, with the possibility of a few single-make classes. You can use 4 classes for an event, and the game will track the car positions in each class separately, so you are only racing your class.
170 cars, 60 tracks at day 1 seems to be the official number. The_American did say we can expect over 200 cars with DLCs eventually.
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Check back a few pages - Ian has confirmed that he wants user-created offline championships and it's now on the list of priorities.
Music to my eyes.
Variante del Rettifilo always reminds me of trying to cram a dozen people into a phone box in its current configuration. Having such a sharp chicane as T1 when there will be maximum congestion right after the start always seemed like a very curious track design.
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It also looks like (on console) the hands and wheel are animated at 30fps whilst the rest of the image strives for 60, which gives the wheel a noticeable juddery effect when turning. During replays the wheel looks fine, but when driving it's not as smooth.Both paddles and fingers. But I agree that it wasn't that visible. Also I think hand model in pCARS is bit huge
Hope this gets altered in pCARS2.
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1. PC2 will have animated pit crew and manual pit-stops. What does happen if a player run somebody over?
2. Will be marshals able to wave flags?
2. Will be marshals able to wave flags?
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I'm not a dev but I'm pretty sure it's not a bug and I'm 95% certain I know why. I have to go back in time a ways but, in rFactor if you were on track and someone else loaded into the lobby they would appear as an approximately 30 polygon car. This was to minimize the lag of everyone's PC having to do all the simulation and then load a high poly car into view. When you exited to the race menu again it would load the car properly and you would see it as it was meant to be. I don't know how much optimization can be done to minimize this without putting the rF Temp style car on track, but maybe there can be work done to load the car slower so to not give everyone lag and keep the joining player on the loading screen a little longer.
Basically it happens because the system is running the simulation and it's pushing probably near max capacity of the consoles and then it has to load a 40k+ polygon car in an instant and the sim has to give some of that power away for a split second.
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We're working extremely hard on it. It covers multiple discipline areas so our CTO is attacking it (has been for some days already).
Eh Team is correct above but we think we've found a cute way of making it work with little or no perceivable stutter ('no' being the aim, less than 'affecting your driving' being the minimum).
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Are you still on track for septemberish? Or is it looking like it might be a little later?
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I'll ask for tracks! Can you confirm without giving names, are we getting more North American tracks? I worded it that way in case you thought of Canada @The_American @IanBell
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@IanBell @The_American Will you guys be updating anything that has changed on tracks that are returning from PCars1? I speak of Monza specifically, where they plan to get rid of the tarmac runoff at Parabolica and change the first turn chicane.
they're not removing all of the tarmac run-off around Parabolica, just a small section of it that extends at the end of the straight. The idea is if a driver has a brake failure or something similar at the end of the straight, there will be gravel run-off to slow them down, but the rest of the corner will still have the same tarmac run-off it currently has. With that said, I'd love to see the new version of Monza, but as I believe SMS have drone scanned or laser scanned every track they've got in the game, I reckon they'll have already done that, which would mean we'd have the current version of Monza, as the track changes haven't been made yet. The changes are planned for this year, but I can't find any info on when they will start them, or when the changes are planned to be finished.
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Any plans to include the new IMSA DPI cars? @IanBell @The_American
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