I recently did some track comparisons in iRacing, comparing real world photos to carefully reconstructed iRacing versions, created in the new camera tool.
Click the links below to see the comparisons.
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Real Or Virtual?
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009The switch to triple wide
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009The last significant iRacing build saw a new feature appear in the release notes. The ’3 render’ mode. What this means is that it is now possible to configure the iRacing client to split the view into three equal sized portions, each with a different angle and view of the world. This is a big improvement from the previous three screen approach which just had a single (very wide) camera view spanning across three monitors.
When I first saw the videos of the mode in action I was very impressed – you can angle the side monitors at any (sensible) angle and the simulation will render the geometrically correct viewpoint for the monitor size and angle. This results in the monitors behaving like true ‘windows’ into the virtual world – a very immersive experience!
I made a short video to show the effect. It was taken adhoc in poor lighting conditions but should still serve as an indicator to this excellent feature.
By the way, ignore the movement of the virtual steering wheel in the video – the replay is from an old iRacing build and so the wacky steering movements are greatly exaggerated!
Pro series is GO!
Thursday, August 13th, 2009Week one of the Pro series finished up last week and it’s really good to have got the series up and running. Since my last post there were a few last minute changes (now 4 scheduled race times instead of 3 and a new grid allocation algorithm) but otherwise we are now locked into the 25 event racing season.
At the final standings I was ranked 119 / 250 so picked up my Pro licence (thankfully!). I missed the first weeks action owed to moving house but if things go to plan I will be taking part from this week onwards. The schedule means I will usually be in the race that kicks off at 23:00GMT Sunday night (i.e. the last race of the week). Given that my raw pace sees me in the bottom 10% of the 250 Pro racers I’ll probably be losing iRating and scoring low each week but I’ll be giving it a fair crack if only to be part of something cool like this.
I’m not sure how many of the 250 will actually compete in all racing weeks, but secretly I’m hoping to finish in the top 150. Progress updates to follow!