Development screenshots #1 [Closed]

Wow! is that it is an image of the next update?

photoreal water with caustic and dry mapping on rocks?

with new spruce tree?

 

I am just starting to get the hang of driving the current Bolide at speed.
Those flared wheelarches look great.

 

This game is awesome! Looks sick garblaster!

 

has the bolide veer left thing been corrected?

 

Isnt that because or torque power if it is then that should occur

 

Wow, that road looks realistic as it is relatively smooth and the hills are like in real life: not huge bumps. Some muddy logging trails to crawl to come?

 

Didn't I mention doing something like this to the Bolide somewhere? I think I did. Anyways, wohoo! now the Bolide can actually have customization options like the rest of the vehicles! Also, will the spoiler be just fo' show or actually do something in terms of downforce? And nice to see this thread getting some use again. It was a great communication tool and you guys kinda just stopped using it when you made the initial release.

 

Hot damn that's sexy.

 

from my learning, most of these spoilers don't do anything to increase downforce, unless they are outside the airflow of the car. The small spoilers are there to reduce lift, which obviously helps keep the rear end attached to the ground at speed, but they rarely (if at all) ever provide down force.
to get down force you need a nice big aerofoil poking outside of the profile of the car, hence craziness like this

 

"The small spoilers are there to reduce lift, which obviously helps keep the rear end attached to the ground at speed"
This is exactly what downforce is, assuming I'm reading this article correctly:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downforce

 

I believe they're actually there to control drag. They'll modify the airflow as it wraps around the rear of the car. Look at one of the Racecar Engineering magazine articles a few months ago regarding vortices. Using CFD they were able to show that a small NASCAR style spoiler reduces drag significantly. I think they serve the same purpose as the spoiler, modifying the airflow coming off the sides of the car to reduce the amount of 'dirty' air in the car's wake.

 

I got shivers when I saw these pictures, that's how good it looks!

 

Nice!!! I was going to make my own roll cage for the cars. But forget about that now. Thanks btw!

 

Did i see somewhere that you (the devs) are planning to make softer passenger cells. It just feels like all the cars already have rollcages.

 

i don't remember seeing this. You have a link or anything?