That depends entirely on setup, iRacing default setups are all bit understeery to make them easier for inexperience drivers. But change a few settings and you can get the balance where you want it.
There's an option to change temperature readings to celcius. 150F converts to 65'C which is bit on the low side as most tires seem to operate best at 80-100'C range (175-210F). Also, if you're looking at the temperature readings in-garage, it might look like tires are ballooning because center appears much hotter. That is not actually the case, for some reason inner/outer temperature readings in garage screen also include the sidewall temperature, which brings the average temperature for that whole section way down. I'm not sure why it's like that because in telemetry file you don't have sidewall temperatures included in it and that makes it much easier to dial in the right amount of camber.
Dallara feels really good with NTM, probably my favorite car right now. While it's not a car you can really drift around with, it doesn't instantly snap around if you get little bit rough.
Only real complaint I have is that fixed setups are bit of a mess, driveable but quite difficult to handle.
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Weird, I find it completely opposite regardless of differential settings.
Indycar is big improvement:
-Better feedback through FFB
-Corner entry takes more practice as you can't just stamp on brakes and turn it in because it will lockup front tires
-Brakes also feel much more sensitive to unloaded tires and I had plenty of single-tire lockups in Mid-Ohio. Probably even managed to lock every tire on a single lap without spinning/crashing out.
-There's bit more progressive feel to tire slip and it's not instant spin everytime you hit throttle too hard. Same applies to braking, feels like there's more than just two states of tire rotation; spinning and stopped. That is pretty easy to notice when you get rear-lockup under braking and if it's roughly on the threshold and just one tire, car will just nudge a little sideways and settle back in as you ease off from brakes.
-Old setups are junk, too understeery and you have to run much less downforce because the drag has been increased by a huge amount.
Cadillac (oh boy....)
-It's essentially soft-Corvette (Cadillac suspension, Corvette engine that feels weak)
-Default setup is absolutely horrible and while you can make significant improvement by messing around with the differential, you better get used to dealing with massive lift-off oversteer and sudden spins at low speeds.
-Tires feel little weird, seem to have very high optimal slip-angle and "sliding" through corners is significantly faster than keeping it clean. The angle is significant enough that your brain keeps screaming "Counter-steer! Counter-steer!", making it pretty hard to do consistently with limited practice.
-Steering also feels little bit dead on the center, but you'll get used to it.
-Better feedback through FFB
-Corner entry takes more practice as you can't just stamp on brakes and turn it in because it will lockup front tires
-Brakes also feel much more sensitive to unloaded tires and I had plenty of single-tire lockups in Mid-Ohio. Probably even managed to lock every tire on a single lap without spinning/crashing out.
-There's bit more progressive feel to tire slip and it's not instant spin everytime you hit throttle too hard. Same applies to braking, feels like there's more than just two states of tire rotation; spinning and stopped. That is pretty easy to notice when you get rear-lockup under braking and if it's roughly on the threshold and just one tire, car will just nudge a little sideways and settle back in as you ease off from brakes.
-Old setups are junk, too understeery and you have to run much less downforce because the drag has been increased by a huge amount.
Cadillac (oh boy....)
-It's essentially soft-Corvette (Cadillac suspension, Corvette engine that feels weak)
-Default setup is absolutely horrible and while you can make significant improvement by messing around with the differential, you better get used to dealing with massive lift-off oversteer and sudden spins at low speeds.
-Tires feel little weird, seem to have very high optimal slip-angle and "sliding" through corners is significantly faster than keeping it clean. The angle is significant enough that your brain keeps screaming "Counter-steer! Counter-steer!", making it pretty hard to do consistently with limited practice.
-Steering also feels little bit dead on the center, but you'll get used to it.
Actually Steve said it's going to be coming after McLaren.
All racing sims are compatible with G25, so adding it as a plus for LFS is bit pointless. Instead, you could point out that it has best support for mouse and keyboard players.
Pricing is also something that should be mentioned, LFS is very cheap but rFactor 2 will offer most amount of content for your money once the mods start to roll out. iRacing is by far the most expensive but all of the content is high quality and you don't have to mess around with different versions of tracks and cars to find the one people are racing online.
Pricing is also something that should be mentioned, LFS is very cheap but rFactor 2 will offer most amount of content for your money once the mods start to roll out. iRacing is by far the most expensive but all of the content is high quality and you don't have to mess around with different versions of tracks and cars to find the one people are racing online.
Sorry, but that's just "please, feel sympathy for the people who worked hard on ME3" without actually telling us anything useful. It's a blatant attempt to make people feel bad about criticizing Mass Effect 3 and nothing else. Quoting NYT and PA about how great the game is also besides the point, I think most people agree that game is pretty good apart from the ending.
JJ72: They can just pick the Destruction ending and say that it's the real way game should have ended. Don't forget that Shepard can also die in the end of ME2 but that doesn't really matter all that much since he's clearly alive in ME3 (although, you cannot export a save where he/she is dead at the end of ME2).
It's better to avoid those popular super-speedway series, that's where the stupidity is at it's highest concentration. Most recenrtly I've done few races on Impala B and Silver Crown, which were pretty enjoyable and especially with SC there was no useless chatter at all. Late Model wasn't too bad either, but that was so long time ago that things have probably changed. Indycar is pretty good too because you cannot push&shove other cars without breaking yours.
But if you still want to drive Impala A despite the horrible attitudes presented, you'll probably want to do something similiar to what Club Finland is doing and setup weekly events for official series, basically just get together with people in your club who are interested in that series and race each week at pre-determined times.
While iRacing probably has bigger community, it's not necessarily better community. On LFS forums you might have one or two members who dedicate their lives to spouting nonsense and trolling forums, but on iRacig forums there's way more of them. Then you have those hardcore oval/road guys who turn decent threads into "oval vs road" arguments.
But, thankfully the forums are also split into car specific forums and that's really where the good parts of the community are found. People are really helpful and keep posting setups and replays every week, some cars even have user created setup guides to help newbies get started.
But, thankfully the forums are also split into car specific forums and that's really where the good parts of the community are found. People are really helpful and keep posting setups and replays every week, some cars even have user created setup guides to help newbies get started.
Yup, with the middle-pedal
Joking aside, with most cars the braking treshold is between 75-90% and you cannot make LFS-style setups where set braking force low enough to prevent lockups. If you're experiencing lockups much earlier and brake feels super-sensitive, could be that you need to calibrate pedals by fully pressing them once before exiting pits (for example G25 pedals lose calibration if you unplug the USB-cord).
No FFB on G25 regardless of Profiler or in-game settings. Got steering working decent enough by setting it to 200 degrees and moved linearity slider 3 clicks to left. Brakes are still working like crap and good linearity value for normal driving doesn't work very well on offroads where brakes are super sensitive and make car pull heavily to either left or right.
I do agree that there should be better way to handle multiclass, but technically Pacecar is different car than the Mustang racecar; different 3d-model, very simple physics, no hitbox and so on.
The joys of underwater building, basically to fill up an ocean you need to build a layer of floating blocks just above sealevel and then manually empty buckets of water on their underside. That will give smooth water surface without any dips or waves and it will fill any empty spaces underneath with water.
Trucks can be messy because it's the entrylevel fast oval car, I'd rather drive either LM or go straight to Impala B which is pretty fast but drives much more like a normal racecar.
It's all explained in the Sporting Code, but it's the best 50% of your weekly finishes that count for championship points. How much points is given depends on the SoF, Strength of Field, which is the field's average iRating. Higher SoF, higher the points.
One little update and oval racing just got a whole lot more exciting on Dallara.
With the aero-changes, car handles very differently in different kinds of traffic and you can't just grab setup from forums and drive to finish. This also means that races have bit too many cautions right now, it probably gets better once drivers adapt to the changes and learn how to use in-car tools to make adjustments on the fly. Nevertheless, it makes racing much more dynamic and fun, at least for me.
But it's not all good, two races, two laps completed. It's always a bad sign when driver starting infront of you asks how much fuel you need and sure enough, we're barely into T1 and his car starts wiggling left and right, before going sideways and taking out a whole bunch of cars.
With the aero-changes, car handles very differently in different kinds of traffic and you can't just grab setup from forums and drive to finish. This also means that races have bit too many cautions right now, it probably gets better once drivers adapt to the changes and learn how to use in-car tools to make adjustments on the fly. Nevertheless, it makes racing much more dynamic and fun, at least for me.
But it's not all good, two races, two laps completed. It's always a bad sign when driver starting infront of you asks how much fuel you need and sure enough, we're barely into T1 and his car starts wiggling left and right, before going sideways and taking out a whole bunch of cars.
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Grant Reeve posted a nice explanation on the throttle response changes:
http://members.iracing.com/ifo ... amp;start=50&tstart=0
http://members.iracing.com/ifo ... amp;start=50&tstart=0
TiJay: If you're going to use Turbosmooth, keep in mind that it works best with 4-sided geometry. Triangles and +5-sided polygons will cause "pinching" which may not be what you want.
Also, google up some info on "face topology", your current mesh is unusable for any kind of animation.
Here's one link to get you started: http://www.digitaltutors.com/forum/showthread.php?p=35554
As for those two characters, they lack features and personality. Very basic stuff like shape of the body (small, thin, fat, tall) can be easily done with low polycount and rest you can do with texturing. For texturing that kind of characters, clean and smooth lines are far more important than anything else, yours look like they were painted with a shaky mousehand. (paths are your friends, mkay?)
Also, google up some info on "face topology", your current mesh is unusable for any kind of animation.
Here's one link to get you started: http://www.digitaltutors.com/forum/showthread.php?p=35554
As for those two characters, they lack features and personality. Very basic stuff like shape of the body (small, thin, fat, tall) can be easily done with low polycount and rest you can do with texturing. For texturing that kind of characters, clean and smooth lines are far more important than anything else, yours look like they were painted with a shaky mousehand. (paths are your friends, mkay?)
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Exactly, this is huge news for iRacing which many still see as U.S.-centric oval racing sim.
Oh...my....god!
If someone told me year ago that we would be getting a real F1 car in Racing, I would have called them delusional.
Couple WIP shots of Zandvoort, posted today by Greg Hill
Also, picture of Ford V8 posted by John Hughes
Also, picture of Ford V8 posted by John Hughes
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For the most part, that ends when people get up to A-licence and realize that only way up is to start racing for real. Unfortunately, this means it's far easier to collect iRating in lower series where many drivers are just cruising to get licence up.
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