What immersion features, addons or details would you like in CSP?

Elaphe · Jun 14, 2022

- You start with a more or less clean windshield and it gets dirtier as you drive more and more kilometres. All this should be configurable.
- You can use your wipers to remove the dirt from your windshield and restore it to its original state.
- Washers for your windshield (with water animation) for a better cleaning effect, of course bindable to a key or button.
- Planes and birds, appearing at random places and random times (with configurable frequency), just to make the tracks a little more alive and not so sad and artificial.
- Configurable random frequency of fireworks.
- Alternative pit guys/girls.
- Some basic animations of the pit guy (moving his/her head, waving his/her hand to greet the driver...).

Lizard Of Bodom · Jun 14, 2022

Elaphe said:
- You start with a more or less clean windshield and it gets dirtier as you drive more and more kilometres. All this should be configurable.
- You can use your wipers to remove the dirt from your windshield and restore it to its original state.
- Washers for your windshield (with water animation) for a better cleaning effect, of course bindable to a key or button.
- Planes and birds, appearing at random places and random times (with configurable frequency), just to make the tracks a little more alive and not so sad and artificial.
- Configurable random frequency of fireworks.
- Alternative pit guys/girls.
- Some basic animations of the pit guy (moving his/her head, waving his/her hand to greet the driver...).

first 3, big yes, was thinking of those aswell as "wouldbegreat...". Especially that dirty windshield is cool feature but in direct sunlight makes it hard to see and makes wipers pointless.

Other details I always wanted will probably never happen as its game-engine related (ignition key+start button and option to add extra lights to stock cars on servers), but maybe one day they will fix indicators/lights toggles so I can use toggle switches rather than momentary ones.

Elaphe · Jun 14, 2022

The problem with ignition+start the car is that it would require creating specific sounds for every engine start in all cars in the game (including mods), which would be a huge amount of work, for something that is not essential (like many of the things we are commenting here).

Other points such as random fireworks, for instance, can be done in 5 minutes and it would be a great addon, because fireworks are cool, but if they are released on every lap, they are no longer a beautiful surprise, but something excessive and annoying. The only option is to limit them to the night time (not for me because I always run during the day), or on holidays (I can understand the idea but it's not very practical and useful in reality).

The windshield idea wouldn't be too hard to add, I presume, as well as the washer, since most of the job with the water effects has already been done with Rainfx. Since I don't like driving with rain, my wipers are just a mere adorn and I have a button for them in my button box which I never use. If I could use it to clean my dirty winshield, I'd really appreciate it, because, as you pointed out, under certain conditions, the dirty windshield makes it hard to see the road.

Lizard Of Bodom · Jun 14, 2022

Elaphe said:
The problem with ignition+start the car is that it would require creating specific sounds for every engine start in all cars in the game (including mods), which would be a huge amount of work, for something that is not essential (like many of the things we are commenting here).
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yea, i know i know but one can dream...
as for windshield - I would literally settle on "dirty-clean" after one wiper move, something as simple as "replace dirty texture with clean one" after you press wiper stalk. That seem like something super easy but would add immersion for everyone, not just rain-users (rain disabled aswell as my rig cant handle it :/)

Elaphe · Jun 14, 2022

Do you know of any thread or forum about CSP where I could address these ideas and suggestions?

jimclark06 · Jun 14, 2022

i really wish a wet effect on t -cam(open wheels) or bonnet car like some previous version of csp.and if i can dream, whit the same effect of, for example, the tcam rain on f1 codemasters saga (you can see the drop of rain but if you are close of another car, the whindshield is splashing whit the spray of the wheels) .like , for example this: