Yeah, we’re fans of @ChiefWiggum ’s work over at SR4L (SimRacers4Life) and are currently running this mod on our Wednesday fun sprint nights. The one thing that bugs me about all of these mods is the VR mirror issue - you have to select the option in Player.json that dissociates VR movement from the mirrors - otherwise I/you can’t see anything but sky if you centre your virtual head over the shoulders… I also agree with @StoneRacing about the FFB - I have to crank it up to feel much with my sc2 pro DD too. If there’s one other thing that would make my life easier as an online race admin - it would be that those cars that have engine options in the configuration screen are split out as separate entities. There’s such a disparity between the ‘71 Porsche engine options, for example, that we wouldn’t normally want to offer the turbo if racing against the ‘cooking’ 71 cars. For a league, I’d set it up properly but for our informal sprint races it’d be nice to be able just to use the basic vehicle filters in the dedi to build a bop selection. Those minor gripes aside, we’re loving the 70s-style F1 and sportscars.
So, after a few test laps around Watkins Glen Boot NC…. With the long tail, I need to boost the car-specific FFB to 160% plus to get any kind of weight (noting that my global FFB setting is (negative) 45% With the short tail, the FFB is still probably a bit strong at 60% - and it feels quite grainy at times. I’d probably dial it down another 5-10% in overall strength terms for longer races. Both experiences were with an identical set up (both physically and in terms of the car setup). Sooo - from this brief test I’d say the short tail has gone too far (but is still scalable obviously) - just a bit concerned about the graininess. The long tail (which I assume is unchanged from v0.91) is waaaay to soft for me and is possibly lacking some detail… Happy to test further and thanks for looking at it.
All cars in recent F1 70's Style updates have already included new independent adjustable mirrors (which I helped separate mirror parts and add complex upgrades & gens entries to make everything functional). So at least for F1 70's Style, the mirrors are fully adjustable now.
So the problem with FFB can probably be fixed by either having upgrades for different wheels with this value on it. NominalMaxSteeringTorque=22.5 // Maximum steering arm torque to effect force feedback strength you can adjust the value you currently have on there to tweak the FFB on wheels on the mod. Alternatively you can write a HDV upgrade that has couple presets of this for different wheels. i dont actually remember the direction that increased FFB but this value determines the FFB that the car will produce and if the car generates too little FFB that might tell that the car has this value needs to be tweaked around to optimise FFB, of course i think best option might be an adjustable upgrade for people wanting different FFB on different wheels. So if the cars run the same value then it might be physics based. but also the weight of the car and suspension geometry adjust that value of the car. so for example on my own cars the higher downforce car has heavier steering than the one that has less downforce.
Brilliant, thanks, much appreciated. I had seen the F1 update a few times in the most recent period but hadn’t gotten around to trying them since we raced them earlier in the year as a short league (plus our Wednesday fun sprints).
Small note: I tested the Matra in Spa 2020. You can drive through the EueRouge with the car at 260 km/h. That seems rather exaggeratedly fast to me. The cars 40-50 years ago didn't have such good tires or chassis and aero! Maybe you can make it a little more realistic. A few Porsches have this V8 drive, when will the original engines come out? E.g. 917/10-71 and 917/30-72u.73 For the Matra with a roof, there was the, I don't think so, please no fantasy car! Otherwise fine mod, fun. Another question, when setting auto shift (F7) you cannot shift up and down at the same time as with the original 397 cars. you have to set to manual (F7). can this be changed? Or is that historically intended?
Thank you for comments. About your observations: It’s also true that 2020 SPA is not 1972-73 track.., Did you experienced the same on SPA 1966? What does it mean “V8 drive”? And.. gearing of Matra, like other cars of that 70 era, is not automatic or semiautomatic ( like it should be ). So, when you shift the gear you see N for a moment…and, yes, it’s not possible to make up and down in the same moment. But autogearing ( set in option menû ) is working…... Sorry if I’ve not understood well the issue. Thank you
Spa 2020 is certainly different from Spa 1966 or 1972. But I can drive through in rF2 with a modern F1 2019-2022 in EueRouge 2020 with 240 to 260 km/full. What I mean is that you can't do that with a 1971-1977 prototype, the old car lacks the downforce and the newer tires and chassis to do so. I think the speed is therefore unrealistic in this case! With the V8 engines, I mean the 8 intake trumpets on the engine. No Porsche of the 917-10 or 30 type had that. The Porsche was a 12 cylinder with fan on top and no high intake trumpets. Autogearing works ok, but with the original 397 cars in auto gearing you can also shift up and down manually without using F7 first. (F7 = switch mode, set). I hope I described it well!
I've spent a fair amount of time with your mods trying to come up with a good profile on my wheel to drive them but have been unsuccessful. The short tail (stronger FFB) is the first ChiefWiggum mod I can finally drive (not counting the RF1 stuff). But with this update even with the long tail (weaker FFB), I can now use the per car multiplier and get drivable results. I may be wrong here though, and maybe this was the case before. I only tested it previously for a few minutes, and when I felt the weak FFB, I uninstalled it because of my previous experience with your other mods. I hope you apply this new formula with the other mods... especially the Alfa Romero 33 TT 12. Interestingly enough I think the Cart 85 (maybe it was the 90, the one where people were complaining about easily blowing the engines) had a placeholder FFB/physics in the early stages and felt good and drivable, but when it was updated to the current FFB/physics it felt weak again.
So i noticed myself than getting the multiplier on the physics side might not be that easy since settings good for a DD might be too weak for G29 and so on. so it needs multple tests. also the steering rack geometry affects the amount of FFB aswell. and it might be that the long tail has less downforce and different steeringrack configuration. The main problem with it that calculating that does require quite heavy engineering work on the steeringrack itself. and even small changes might have widely different results all together. i do remember the 1970s sportscars in RF1 having less FFB on the 917LH long tail than on the short tail 917K and this would mostly be cause of the reduced downforce of the car. earlier 917 even produced lift at high speeds what would make the steering light at speed. Keep doing the good work chief im sure it will get solved.
