Rain in iRacing

Kenadian

Staff member
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A lot of people seem to expect rain soon but it sounded as if they still had a lot of work to do. They have to get ground reflections working properly and (it appeared) as if they'd just begun working on drainage and values associated with different drainage solutions.

I wonder if drainage will be affected by marbling during a 24hr as there's tons of it off the racing line, in the grass, etc.?

Also the weather localization sounded like a huge can of worms and I've still no idea how that's going to look on a large track like the Nordschleife? My guess is this will finally address the black hole night sky we currently have which I've never understood. I thought they could just take the daytime skybox and adjust lighting values but this does nothing to address moonlight.

...and I'm no developer so I could be oversimplifying something far more complex.

Lastly, they have to deal with the water beading and that can't be easy particularly given how convoluted some of the paints actually are.

I got the impression from the live stream we'd be lucky to seeing it prior to mid 2022 or later given the work required.

Of course this was just my take from the video and I've nothing to substantiate it.
 

Big_J_29

Casual
I wonder if Rain will affect frame rate and if so how much of a hit is my Graphics Card gonna take using VR.
 

Kenadian

Staff member
Site Admin
I wonder if Rain will affect frame rate and if so how much of a hit is my Graphics Card gonna take using VR.
That's the million dollar question isn't it?

Personally I can't see anyway for it to not adversely affect framerate given added reflections, physics, and constantly evolving track states.

Having said that, maybe decreased visibility means less view distance so far less distant objects to render, don't know?
 

Daunt

MLG Pro
I would imagine the worst hit really isn't the rain and such itself, it's going to be proper spray. When these cars are going the spray is insane and doing that sort of thing in game would be very challenging I bet. I think ACC does a good job with rain but even the spray in that game seems "turned down" to what it seems like in real life.

I had no notion it was going to be released or ready by S1. But I swear they made it sound like they'd have something more to show at least by now? Another teaser or something? I thought that I had that impression from somewhere.
 

Skid_Marc_

Staff member
Admin
But I swear they made it sound like they'd have something more to show at least by now? Another teaser or something? I thought that I had that impression from somewhere.
They didn't imply it, they flat out said in that interview that they were *hoping* to have something out by the end of 2021. They still have a few more days, but I'm not holding my breath on their "hope".
 

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