What WILL you make with a GPS enabled or very detailed track editor?

[ProjectWHaT]

This GPS thing most likely won't be able to make the seems scenery as it is in real life. So don't make a track just because of how pretty it looks.

 

[djm99]

Well i'm not thinking about it until the Game/feature arrives to avoid any disappointment.

 

[jimipitbull]

Kaz can fingerpaint the scenery if he wants.

Generic types like in GT5 will be more than adequate.

 

[Magic Ayrton]

... When you consider test drive unlimited had a whole island mapped out ... they should look to mapping Europe, so we can drive our race cars on a trailer towed by our favorite road weapon to the tracks around it!

 

[jimipitbull]

Or a track creator that uses data from Google. This would keep me entertained for years

 

[MatskiMonk]

Has anyone thought of doing a four-leaf clover interstate on/off ramp yet? I can only imagine what that would look like!

Like a four leaf clover

The Omnitel 1000km in Lithuania uses on/off ramps as corners, I'm sure it'll be on youtube

 

[Rod Carvalho]

This!
https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?sou...0.015836&t=k&z=16&iwloc=000494564f7f7c3c5d4d8

We had Formula-1, Indy and MotoGP on this track, but it does not exist anymore. It was destroyed last year to give place to some of the 2016 Olympics facilities.

 

[R.S]

I could do the Sydney Olympic Park Street Circuit, although it would be quite difficult to scan it by car when some parts of the track go down the wrong side of the road and down a bus road

More likely I'll do some local roads first.

Don't forget that GPS can store paths just as well on foot, or on bike or bus. You don't need to be in a car. In fact it might be better as you can walk slow and catch more points as the GPS updates every x-seconds.

Go at 2-o'clock in the morning and you could bicycle down the very center of the road.

 

[ed24]

Don't forget that GPS can store paths just as well on foot, or on bike or bus. You don't need to be in a car. In fact it might be better as you can walk slow and catch more points as the GPS updates every x-seconds.

Go at 2-o'clock in the morning and you could bicycle down the very center of the road.

Yeah true, that's just more effort I'll have to see how accurate the game is first - it would also be quite difficult to simulate the track's tight chicanes I imagine.

 

[BooyakaDragon]

Think it would work with oval tracks with banking? Then I can make my former home track Texas Motor Speedway lol

 

[jimipitbull]

Looking at http://software.copiks.com/photomapper/help/v07/gpsimport.php

If the data is in similar format, it wont be too hard to edit. Might be time consuming though.

For banking/camber, it might need two laps of data - one from each side of track. That would also give an accurate width.

And just a thought, if you use the 3G Vita GPS, perhaps it would also log data from the accelerometer for camber/gradient etc.

 

[play3man]

I will propably do these

If you want, you can look at street view here http://bit.ly/1hpYvpT

 

[Ranman20]

I live in Maryland, not to far from Baltimore. So i can try to create the circuit for Baltimore Gran Prix.

 

[syntex123]

What I'd make? Easy. Real race tracks that isn't in the game. Rudskogen and Vålerbanen for starters. I've driven at Vålerbanen before when it was closed, so it should be easy to do it again. And Rudskogen hosts Gatebil, if I'm not able to drive there when it's closed, I'd have to pay to have a lap or two on the next Gatebil. But it's worth it. (And oh, it's in Norway for those who didn't know. )

Cruising video @ Vålerbanen :


- My mom says "Be careful" 💡 Cruising means being careful. I wasn't allowed driving faster than 70km/h since the track was closed.

 

[SnakeOfBacon]

I'd make a quad Figure 8 with very wide, near-vertically banked corners

 

[slayer91]

We have some good tarmac roads for hill climbs here. Windy but fast. Hopefully point-to-point is an option. Also plenty of dirt roads. I could use a lot of gas if this feature is indeed real.

 

[zzz_pt]

Autodromo do Estoril, Portugal.

 

[Johnnypenso]

Just thought of something. Logically, one would assume that a track will be created with the GPS app using the path you create as the centre of the track. So if you drive a track and hit all the apexes and let the car run wide on exit, you won't get exactly the same shape as if you drive up the middle of the track. So if you're looking for perfection in the track layout I think you'll have to drive up the middle of the track.

 

[SnakeOfBacon]

Since we're talking about GPS tracks, among the most memorable road I've ever been on is the one that goes up Kuranda Mountain in Cairns, that would be incredibly fun to drive, so would a whole bunch of other roads in the Northern NSW Mountains area, even some of the more scenic bits of the Hume Highway would be a blast

 

[Leonidae@MFT]

Oh oh oh.. Does any GTP'er live in Seattle? He could replicate that lovely track..

 

[smskeeter23]

Just thought of something. Logically, one would assume that a track will be created with the GPS app using the path you create as the centre of the track. So if you drive a track and hit all the apexes and let the car run wide on exit, you won't get exactly the same shape as if you drive up the middle of the track. So if you're looking for perfection in the track layout I think you'll have to drive up the middle of the track.

I believe that is in fact one thing many people have not thought of or need to be reminded when capturing something if it becomes possible.

 

[mickoafna]

Or a track creator that uses data from Google. This would keep me entertained for years

I had in mind the same thing as you

 

[phillgt2002]

To what extent of detail will these be? Just the road itself?

 

[MockngBrd]

Would be nice if we could choose the surroundings and add in elements as-when we'd like.

 

[Xride92]

With the altitude measure, it would be nice to recreate some San Francisco tracks

 

[Mr P510]

Do we know if this GPS feature will map the elevation as well?

 

[Conquerer]

Just thought of something. Logically, one would assume that a track will be created with the GPS app using the path you create as the centre of the track. So if you drive a track and hit all the apexes and let the car run wide on exit, you won't get exactly the same shape as if you drive up the middle of the track. So if you're looking for perfection in the track layout I think you'll have to drive up the middle of the track.

I've been thinking this since I first thought of recreating areas I drive in real life. It would be great if the GPS is able to take the available data and recreate the road itself, but who knows. Not like it'll be terrible if not, and if you're driving on real roads you most likely won't be cutting through lanes and hitting apexes (but sure for real tracks and other areas), so you'll be following the road pretty much exactly the way it's shaped in that case (eg: 2 lane road).

Also I wonder how it would generate thickness of the road if it doesn't do that... every area the same or you set it? Too many questions still up in the air. It really makes the most sense if the function takes real GPS/map data to estimate road width and for elevation, from the actual GPS recording when you drive.

 

[Normalaatsra]

This GPS thing most likely won't be able to make the seems scenery as it is in real life. So don't make a track just because of how pretty it looks.

This is why more Course Maker themes are needed, so the real life counterpart can find a close match in GT6. Hopefully the themes themselves are pretty to look at as an added bonus.

 

[Hayden]

The potential of this feature is absolutely insane! Ever since I heard the first rumour about it a few months ago I've been eying off local roads potential circuits and hoping that the GPS course maker would come to fruition. Super stoked to see it's actually happening, nice one PD 👍

 

[azeeza]

Gps Track editor will be insane for mountain road, touge style baby !