Ideas And Suggestions! (features and game mechanics)

All we need is a simple chat box. I'm not even bothered about voice chat. Back in my club racing days on Gran Turismo 5, all we used was the text chat function. Worked really well.

 

Yep, you could do this in Gran Turismo too. And everyone stayed in the room until they were ready to leave so they could chit-chat or go practice some more or do another race. It was a great social experience that I really enjoyed and I miss it in PC sims.

Yes, it did. But the voice chat worked well too and some of us do enjoy chatting up our fellow drivers while racing so it would be a nice feature to have. Teamspeak works fine but requires coordination from an outside source (forum) as well as extra setup so you can't just jump on a random server and start chatting with the people you're racing. Would be nice to have it integrated. (if a 8 year old PS3 could handle this, why can't our mega purpose built gaming machines do it?)

 

We had a rule: no chat during the race. I find voice chat especially distracting.

 

We did too, same with qualifying. But during practice or after the race it was allowed, and enjoyable.

 

Yes, that would be nice! But the chat feature must have the option for player to have it OFF/ON.

 

Please move the selection of sequential and H-shifting to the car-setup section - then can we save it car-specific.

 

And the selection of auto clutch on/off.

 

that you can do in car while driving ; its not that much hassle

Andi

 

yepp - that's right... but maybe the Selection of H-Pattern/sequential and Autoclutch on/off can be integrated in the same Car-Setup-Menu like the Steering-Look which would change in a more general Car-Setting-Menu...

 

agreed

Andi

 

also a ffb overall force slider in the setup would be nice. currently i have like 4 ffb profiles for different cars.

 

Yes, this would be a nice feature. I know iRacing has a "universal" options for all cars that is saved. Then anytime you use an individual car you can check a box that says sumfink like "use separate options for this car" where you can adjust options and the game keeps it only for that particular car.

 

for the sake of confusion it would be nice if nonadjustable settings for the cars were
1 grayed out,
2 labeled fixed or something like that,
or 3 removed from the screen completely.

 

I said this in another thread, but this is a more appropriate place for it.

More head movement in the car cockpit is something I really wish was an option. I've heard that there are files you can edit to get those effects, but that kind of thing should be a slider or two in the options menus like other games have them. I find the current ultra-rigid camera to feel a little unnatural.

 

I know you can map keys to increase/decrease camera movements in the cockpit, but I'm guessing this isn't what you're referring to.

 

The text file edits basically mimic the damping effect of the head in response to the car's movement. It's not true lock-to-horizon in the traditional sense but the result is actually better in my opinion. It stops the horizon bouncing around all over the place which can be nauseating - the cockpit bounces around instead. With these tweaks you have the added benefit of the driver's view remaining locked forward if you know what I mean, so when you drive up and down steep hills the driver's view doesn't try to track the horizon which can look a bit odd.

I know Sector3 have their hands full but I'm sure this is something that could be implemented into the in-game options without too much fuss. It only needs three global sliders for pitch, roll and yaw, representing the three values that you edit in the text file for each car. The end result is so good that it's a shame it's hidden away in text files.

 

If anyone wants to give these text edits a try, more info can be found here:

https://forum.sector3studios.com/index.php?threads/locking-camera-to-horizon.294/page-2#post-21314

 

Do you have a video of what this looks like? I'm having a hard time picturing the effect and would like to see if it's something I would prefer or not.

 

Just try it mate. Pick a favourite car, go into the relevant cockpit_driver_view.xml and find the line:

<orientationSpeed type="Vector">{0.00000000 0.00000000 0.00000000}</orientationSpeed>

I use a more subtle setting of 40.00000000 0.00000000 40.00000000. This zero means there is no yaw movement (don't like it), just pitch and roll. See what you think.

 

@James Cook, Sounds very promising, I'll give this a go later tonight. I don't want a true lock to horizon because like you said that makes things get weird when you're up/downhill, and this sounds like it's better.