Welcome to Video of the Week, a new weekly post here at ISR. Video of the Week features the best user created sim racing videos to grace the internet, and this week, we kick it off strong.
YouTube user Rajon Soni posted this unbelievable unofficial Assetto Corsa trailer called Born to Race. Not only is this one of the best Assetto Corsa videos I’ve seen, it might be one of the prettiest sim racing videos I’ve seen period. The video shows off a lot of the Ferrari 458 Italia at a sun soaked Silverstone, which is never a bad a thing. Thank you Rajon for making my life easy. Enjoy.
[youtube]http://youtu.be/PufPklqkmQg[/youtube]
Listen, I don’t wanna sound like a complete prik but when the camera slows down and you see the tires spinning in slow motion, it’s not even spinning in ‘sync’ with the ground. In other words, it’s spinning faster than the road is moving and that’s not how physics work in real life. This is essentially called ‘ice driving’ and either the FPS is incorrectly displaying that, or they still need to work on tire physics. =(
Interesting. Wonder if the physics are kind of fudged in that the wheel spins at x number of rotations above y mph and it doesn’t directly correlate the two? Now the right way would be wheel spin=mph but since you can’t visually see the difference (spokes become a blur) above a relatively low speed maybe they fudge it?
The tyre physics are fine, it fact they’re beyond fine they’re really quite good. What you’re seeing is the optical illusion caused by rotation being faster or slower than the sync of the camera (or in this case the video recording) making the wheels look like they’re moving out of sync with the ground. It’s called the stroboscopic effect (or strobe effect).
I like this answer better than mine.
HAAA! @ 0:52 “World’s most advanced physics engine” [Citation needed]
No, more like “World’s most advanced case of Fanboy-ism” or “World’s most advanced case of obvious marketing is obvious”. Take your pick.