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#Post#: 3152--------------------------------------------------
Driving Views and Simracing
By: Chad Brown Date: June 6, 2017, 9:43 pm
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I was sitting at work and thinking about Michael F's offer to
teach us some lessons (He does it on every Sunday, but he was
offering to do it on a Saturday and not in a race setting...)
This got me to thinking about situational awareness and making
sure when you know there is someone next to you or you are clear
to move onto another line. I thought about the look left right
and back buttons I have mapped and how I rarely use the look
left and right features and rely on my mirrors instead. This got
me to thinking about how console racers tend to have better
awareness due to the alternate views they tend to use. This then
led to me wondering about the couple of drivers I know who use
controllers and chase cams for driving. This ultimately led me
to wonder how many of our drivers use each listed view.
Whew that was the long way around to getting to how this poll
started. In any case, list what view you use to race in VRC and
rF2 in general.
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Re: Driving Views and Simracing
By: MikeeCZ Date: June 7, 2017, 1:36 am
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I always try for as authentic as i can. So cockpit view with as
little info on the screen as i can... Plus virtual mirrors
because i cant see my mirrors on single screen. If I could, i
wouldnt use the virtual ones
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Re: Driving Views and Simracing
By: Simon J Date: June 7, 2017, 3:03 am
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Always cockpit view for ages now since i got a wheel anyhow.
but used to use bumper cam type with controller. took few day
when i swapped prefer cockpit as cant see around you in bumper
view plus cockpit feels right.
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Re: Driving Views and Simracing
By: Tig_green Date: June 7, 2017, 3:35 am
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In my opinion mirrors are insufficient for knowing what's around
you, so everyone should map look left/right if possible. Also
rear view mirror shows car further behind than they really are
so I sometimes use look behind. VR would be good, but
considering the price, size, current technical specs and beast
machine you need to have, it's probably ~2-3 years away for me.
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Re: Driving Views and Simracing
By: CJR33 Date: June 7, 2017, 10:49 am
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I use bumper cam for ages now, plus virtual mirrors.
I have the rear view mapped on my wheel and I use it quite
often, as you said virtual mirrors does not help that much.
Also I have all hud information off except for gear, speed, revs
and fuel level.
I easily get distracted by any more information (laptimes,
splittimes or running order for example) than those above.
But I do have another button mapped to show and have a short
look (wear level of tyres mostly) on it on a straight.
I am faster without those information, so I can focus more on
driving and "feeling" the limit.
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Re: Driving Views and Simracing
By: Stevo Date: June 7, 2017, 4:47 pm
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Interesting post...
I use the bonnet cam, virtual mirrors and have D Pad mapped to
look left right and behind.. can also look sort of diagonally
behind aswell with D Pad, ive also mapped 2 buttons to look left
and right on steering wheel which i can use just about anywhere
on the track but the D Pad is for on the long straights because
it takes my hand away from the flappy paddel gear change, G27
has D Pad on the shifter.. still getting used to this setup
since ive had a couple of incidents with Palla and Tech G
i almost went and bought 2 more monitors last weekend.
the more i get into it the more i will spend on STUFF.
I love the races we have on sundays but the only thing thats
holding me back from ploughing some more money into it is that i
feel quite lonely through the week, kinda boring doing 6000 laps
on my own
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Re: Driving Views and Simracing
By: i_hortal Date: June 7, 2017, 6:38 pm
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i use window licker cam, sort of cockpit as close to the bonnet
cuz single screen.
right now im going minimalist with the HUD only using wedge hud.
fuel, laps, gaps i think and i cycle the rf2 display for
particular stuff.
i do rely in the hud gear indicator as i go so close i cant read
the motec and sometimes i forget which gear im using :p
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Re: Driving Views and Simracing
By: Michael Kral Date: June 7, 2017, 7:47 pm
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In car. Single monitor. No plugins. No cheats on screen like
cheat map or whatever MFer said. All talent and general good
looks.
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Re: Driving Views and Simracing
By: CUPP Cakes Date: June 7, 2017, 7:55 pm
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It's supposed to be a simulation of a race car, so if you race
your actual race car on the bumper or on the roof or on the dash
board .... good for you. I think most race car drivers sit in
the cockpit. I'm not a real race car driver but I pretend by
using the cockpit view.
I also change the FOV per track to get the best view of what the
track surface looks like. Very important to be able to
anticipate what to do, rather than react to turns, brows, etc...
that are hard to decipher till you're right on top of them.
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Re: Driving Views and Simracing
By: Marketcrash16 Date: June 7, 2017, 10:11 pm
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Cockpit view, around 52 as my FOV on an ultrawide monitor. I can
usually see most of my left side mirror and in the BMW I don't
use virtual mirrors because the BMW rear view mirror is friggin
MASSIVE.
I use crewchief as a spotter but other than that nothing.
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