doc_gooney wrote:I'd like to think that these guys do take other jobs, besides developing LFS ... To put it in a nutshell: They're not working full time on LFS, that's why the dev-cycles are so long. Perfectly okay for me, as long as they let people know about it. Which they don't.
Exactly, even a couple of words every couple of months that could have been....
December - VWS to be released
December - VWS delayed. Beta testing has highlighted some physics problems that we are investigating.
Feb - Working on the physics issues. We know where the problem is we now need to figure out how to fix it.
April - Looks like some major bits of physics code need to be changed. Studying options and analysing mathematics.
June - Have had to start again with some of the physics code. Too early to see if this fixes the problems. Have also started work on a new track!
August - Physics code is coming together and we can see that it will work and be an improvement. Lots of coding and testing to do. Also means that the VWS electronic aids will need recoding.
September - Physics, still in progress. New track is starting to take shape - sneak previews!
October - Physics and track progressing. Working on concepts for the new car to be released with S3.
Need not give away any real details, just give some idea that they haven't finished with LFS and moved onto other things. They owe us nothing, we got what we paid for, but in the spirit of community that is LFS it would be nice.
doc_gooney wrote:mjh93sa wrote:Once they have done one track with the laser scanning etc and perfected the technique it opens the possibility of what they might then be able to do if other tracks would let them licence the circuit.
Thing is though, to optimize tracks from the raw laser scan is probably extremely time-consuming. Shouldn't be much quicker than designing a fantasy track from scratch where they already can optimize it for LFS
during the modeling phase, not
afterwards.
Yup, but done once they have the knowledge of the pitfalls should they do it again. Therefore the likelihood of more real tracks has just increased, or gone completely out of the window if it was too much hassle.
doc_gooney wrote:mjh93sa wrote:Wonder what the new car will be? The cynic in me thinks it'll probably be a hotted up Scirroco
I expect another lame formula car. I'd love to see a Merc Racing Truck
Some sort of oval car (NASCAR / Champcar / Indycar) for the Rockingham oval?
I hope not. Needs something like a 135i coupe or M3, or a 330d Touring.
Unless they have another manufacturer wanting a special then it'll either be a fantasy car to avoid licencing issues, or just might by something like a GTR version of the Scirroco if they managed to get that in the contract with VW.