Hi there! I lurked in the forums since the glory days of racer before even the 0.50 final version.Sadly less and less people stay with racer and one of the reasons i strongly believe are that there are no default animations for drivers/cockpits/objects etc... or a way to load a seperate file for cockpits....
So many years have passed and the majority of cars either don't have a cockpit at all or they have a static cockpit with no driver animations.It's sad after looking at other games like lfs,the gtr games,rfactor and even netkar and iracing.
All needed to do is make it possible to have a seperate file for cockpits (to save framerates) were there would be default physics based driver's head view movement affected by the car's movement.(look to apex ,g-forces,line of sight) along default drivers animations steering the wheel,changing gears,pulling the handbrake and operating the pedals.And some decent real mirrors would be nice too.(And animated pop up lights been seen by the cockpit in cars that have them would be nice too)
Sorry if i seem to bash the game but this is one of my major gripes for its decline through the years...(along the absence of some universal constants to keep cars and tracks playable with each new version)
So many years have passed and the majority of cars either don't have a cockpit at all or they have a static cockpit with no driver animations.It's sad after looking at other games like lfs,the gtr games,rfactor and even netkar and iracing.
All needed to do is make it possible to have a seperate file for cockpits (to save framerates) were there would be default physics based driver's head view movement affected by the car's movement.(look to apex ,g-forces,line of sight) along default drivers animations steering the wheel,changing gears,pulling the handbrake and operating the pedals.And some decent real mirrors would be nice too.(And animated pop up lights been seen by the cockpit in cars that have them would be nice too)
Sorry if i seem to bash the game but this is one of my major gripes for its decline through the years...(along the absence of some universal constants to keep cars and tracks playable with each new version)