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Oh boy, rF2 has some competition. In fact, you could fool me it was rF2 without the UI. Helmet design like Shift 2 would look good on this.

Amazing! i am in love with this sim already but man would you look at that, god dam! The sounds, the reflections the lightning. WOW

yes but this is the first one we’re seeing in motion. Really stunning, what a beauty! Rain has never been so enjoyable XD

thanks Kuno :)

now we have many updates, preview of netkar pro ! can’t wait to test rain.

I think it would be epic if this car could also be driven on “normal” courses. But it would be weird if it wouldn’t be, so I won’t worry.

Is this a new Osella and a new Bondone track? Or is it the same that came out two(?) years ago as a stand-alone? It sure looks much better than I remember. 

It’s nice to see things are finally getting a bit more lively. Yes, this is (almost) all old stuff, but still… the third car is supposed to be yet another open wheeler, so if the PA-21 will be out in 2010 with a decent tyre model on a dry track (I’m skeptic about rain) and no silly driving aids, it might still be the high point of this simming year for me. (Yeah I know, tell me about low expectations…)

Now, it’s not really easy to tell, but the track looks positively outdated with flat roadside surfaces and simplistic, unpolished buildings. Of course, the Trento-Bondone is an old track which supposedly has been collecting dust on the devs’ HDD for years now, so I can’t really expect it to be up to scratch with -say- Aosta.

The rain drops on the helmet also look fake, they don’t seem to move despite lateral acceleration and relative air speed, but hopefully they still have some time to try and make them a little more realistic, otherwise they might actually detract from the overall experience.

And BTW, even if it all turns up to be a dud, after they eventually threw out the old unreleased stuff, hopefully they can move on and start working on the long neglected sides of nKp which are in dire need of some love.

The other car isn’t an open wheeler…

Can’t wait for the release. looks awesome!
And btw: This is the fastest and best simracing-blog on the planet. You must love VirtualR. Seriously Rob, thanks for all your dedication and hard work

really nice work….looks very competitive…well done, guys.

But this is nothing new… this track and car were released as a part of a freeware Marangoni Hillclimb simulator. http://www.virtualr.net/two-free-netkar-based-simulations-released/

Thats the first time netkar has impressed me. The track looks fantastic too.

Enormous. The track looks fantastic, with those puddles, the fog, the water drops, the trees… Really good looking.

Hehe soon nKPro will be recognised as the best sim on earth. :)

Great work Kunos.

HELLO nKP… Please have offline racing with AI.. in next release…!!!

WOW, looks awesome !!!

My only criticism (that hopefully gets noted by Kunos); with the power to weight ratio of that car combined with how wet the track appears to be (in the middle of a thunderstorm), I would have thought the car would have less grip than it appears to have (especially wheelspin on corner exit).

P.S: @Kunos: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE fix the networking code, it’s pretty bad.

I missed this one thanks for linking it. Did anyone of them say that this is going to be the third car?

Because, Kunos said 3 cars and 1 won’t be an open-wheeler, the Osella certainly isn’t one. Now we all know his word’s worth squat but still… this looks too good to be true ;)

Awesome!

freeware Marangoni Hillclimb simulator was not based on netkar pro engine > 1.1, . they are some discuss about.

i think formula  ks2 car is part of the three cars. Someone confirm?

“Kunos Simulazioni has released a very impressive new preview video of their netKar Pro simulation, showing off three upcoming innovations at once.”

Four: look at the reflections on the car!
Great stuff looking foreward to it! :-D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVq2v5xWoS0

it doesn’t look so bad..

yes

Thunder @2:05 was a nice touch =)

I think it looks more than adequate considering how old the gfx engine is. Great to see Kunos is back on it as well, few years ago NKP looked all but extinct.

I agree that looks good. I’ve only done around 5-10 online sessions (almost always on a local low ping server) and it’s always performed poorly (like Simbin titles). After a year of mostly only iRacing, I guess NetKar (and everything else for that matter) just falls short for me in the net-code department.

I agree, of course iRacing is great about the online racing :)

LFS has great net-code

nKP netcode is very brittle. As soon as you have more than 5 or 6 cars on the same server, it just needs a little glitch for hell to break loose.

Besides the uncanny sensitivity to anything that has a ping over 200 ms, there are ghost collisions. They go like this: Adam hits Ben. Ben complains Adam is a <censored> and share his replay, you see Adam being an asshole.

Then Adam would get angry and share his. Why he’s angry? Because in A’s replay, B made a mistake and went off.

Of course this will happen in some kind of regulated environment (e.g. GPC), assuming you managed to rake up more than 5 player on a pick-up server, just imagine what would happen…

sadly I have the same problem in LFS :(

That video is incredibly realistic! I’m really looking forward to run nKPro v2.0! Grats Kunos!

Oh yes, that would be great in one of the next updates…!!

Faked AI are not really a great addition to a sim.

Moreover coding good AI is a lot of work that can’t be done in 1 months…

Online race and good net-code should be the focus.

Looks amazing and makes me wanna try it. I just wish they would vary the look of the single trackside tree that looks the same all the time! Rotate/mirror it at least…

One point I am a bit confused about: how can there be so big puddles UPHILL? This would mean big holes or bumps in the track surface.

Better solution would be to make some puddles or water reflections on the track sides as runoff water.

Is this the first ever wet-racing in a sim? (asside from mario kart)

No GP4 had rain I think