I love Jacarepagua on any f1 car from the 60's through to the 90's (I don't drive anything newer than that ). Such a great flowing track with endless drifting, can be tricky to overtake but there are possibilities. Wish it still existed, far better than Interlagos IMIO. Interesting to hear Senna saying how bumpy it was, it's flat as a pancake in most versions I have driven, guess it would have been a little tricky to laser scan something that's not there anymore
Hi, one good news is that our mod at @doddynco and I (f1 1986 historical edition tracks and cars) will be given an overhaul of the road meshes also when final release. With the technical help given by @svictor, the tracks will all have some meshes that mimic the different surfaces and bumps. Cheers and stay tuned.
Can I just say, that even though all the tracks are old mods, and some aren't the most accurate (or at least feels a bit inaccurate at places). The looks, the feel, the atmosphere is just extremely amazing. Having this brought to rF2 spec and modern tech is absolutely brilliant!
I have a problem since the RF2 update and the gear changes with 1986 HE. It is impossible for me to start with the Benetton even by putting gas it stalls and suddenly I can not use it. With the Brabham it's limited ... on the other hand with the Mclaren we manage to make the clutch slip. I also regret not being able to do a 5-3 or a 6-4 anymore... like real-life pilots did at the time. Despite the new RF2 update it is still possible I have tested it with other cars but you really have to apply yourself. Otherwise the cars are superb to see and drive (skipping the Mclaren for the terrible noise of its engine which seems winded and more) Congratulations for your work.
Sounds like a clutch linearity issue. RF2 does not allow the mod dev to have a 'biting point', or for the car to have anything but a linear clutch - that's a problem when you're pulling out the pits with less than 100bhp at low revs and you have a clutch that's good for 1300bhp. In this case, the clutch is going to be fully engaged in the first 1/13th of the movement. That's going to cause a lot of people to stall. Obviously, the solution is more revs, and less clutch. I have slightly increased the engine inertia for the 0.45 (in-progress) version and that will help a bit. It should be a bit of a faff to pull away though, as you can see in this video: There is a much neater solution, and I think more realistic (clutches are not linear in real life); RF2 allows you to make your clutch controller input non-linear. I suggest going for the max 200% - as this non-linearity is closer to real life, though still far from perfect. In fact I'd suggest everyone do this, regardless of what content they use - I can see no reason not to. The drivetrain simulation in rf2 is quite limited. I am going to be working on some small turbo amendments in the near future, and this will be towards helping the bmw engines spool up at low revs when under a consistent (low) open throttle input, whilst keeping everything else practically the same. Tricky to get right. But I'm very happy with how the turbo performs in every other aspect and this is tuned very accurately to real performance. I don't want to undo the good work here so I will have to be very considerate. The 3-5 4-6 shifting is off the table at the moment as linear selection is forced when shift protection in used. You will find the cars where you can still freely change between all gears do not use the 'must use clutch' feature. It's a trade off I'm willing to make for the moment. I think s397 will update this as the Caterham is also affected, much to it's determent. The sound will be improved. I still have an awful lot of physics to do so I'm staying focussed on that mostly, and not putting too much time into sound as it can be a huge time sink - sometimes for little or no gain. That will come though - it deserves a proper Tag soundtrack.
It's not shift protection in the modern sense - I'm simply asking for 80% clutch input as that is as close as I can get to a Hewland 'dog box' style gearbox for now. I would prefer to use throttle position (even better would be transmission torque), but there is no option to stop an upshift if the throttle/torque is above a certain threshold. At 80% pressed, the clutch can transfer about 300nm of torque from the engine without slipping, which is around half of peak torque. Even though clutch use wasn't necessary, the driver could have used the clutch during the race to look after the drivetrain and tyres. So I'm mimicking that. Obviously there's a lot of compromise going on.
only the very first benetton-only version worked for me. after mod updates no engine sound any longer, the new v0.43.6 for example does not work. all other 1986 mods deleted, up to date rF2 (w/ old menu/GUI tho). how do I get the very first benetton-only version pls? thanks
If you are using the old menu/gui, you must be using an old version of RF2. You should opt out of steam beta's by selecting 'none'.
As rF2 continues to march forward, you will lose the ability to run more and more content as the old UI will not contain the updates required by the newer cars. Apparently you are already experiencing this. The great sound work by @doddynco which takes advantage of the new sound engine may be one of the areas where you get left behind.
I don't even keep the old versions sorry. Once I'm happy that changes are successful and nothing is broken, all the backups get updated too. You're missing out both on the new RF2 updates and the updates to the HE edition, which are both substantial.
I think v0.31a. I'm not totally sure sorry, my changelog only goes back until 0.35 which is after the sound update.
Looking on the comments on the Steam Workshop page, I'm not the only one experiencing issue with a lack of power. I picked the Ligier and barely got the thing to 200 kmph on the long straight at Jacarepagua. Lap times of 1'51 in quali shouldn't be pole, compared to the real life 1' 25.5. Any plans to have a look at this chief ? or is there a simple fix
Sorry mate, my hard drive failed this summer a large part of content was lost. I could only recover LE 0.9 and LE 0.97