While I’m thinking the same thing (I fully understand it, it does make sense to model now and worry about meeting the requirements when needed), it is sorta goofy to be all “Nom nom nom its for rF2 nomoonomnomonomnonmnomnom.”

But still, I’ll disagree with Arnold. While I’ve never had a problem running the WSGT1 for GTR2 or even any problems with turning settings down, it is sorta crazy to blame people for saying it’s a FPS Monster when, compared to other mods, it likely could be. But then again, multi car mods will always be heavier (Heck, look at CART Factor – great details, yet runs faster than almost anything out there?), but – optimization is key. I have faith that you guys can carry that out with the same amount of quality.

UncleChuckle:
The detail of the model is irrelevant. If you let a 3 year old texture it, it’s going to look crap.
I’d laugh after all this if there is something fundamentally different with RF that renders all this work unusable. It’s always struck me as somewhat arrogant to say your mod is for RF2 when the sim isn’t even finished.
You may as well say it’s for RF 10.

Unlucky Chucke: I would not worry. all the people i have in my simracing social club,beg for details. As for the age thing…. mmm i am 43… not 3. :-)
about the ” I’d laugh after all this …” as SCCA1981 allready said, we can pump it into any sim or game just as easy. the reason why we picked rFactor 2 is because of its features, and because its the only system that officially supports mods.

PS: Here is a question for you… whats the best.. to start creating a mod for a sim that is not out yet…… or start to nag about a sim that is not out yet?
” I’d laugh after … you beg for a link.
Brigthen up my friend.. you are a very pessimistic person. it will only have an impact on you, not us.

Arnold I hope the mod comes with a discount coupon for a new PC.

At first I was even aim to build the exteriors at the level of GT5, but due to the needs to have 30 cars on the track, I cut 3/4 of the polys. BTW, We aim to have 60FPS with 30 cars at 16xQ AA on the average game PCs with a GeForce 9800GTX this time.

Sometimes I really don’t like the ideas around the community about non-detailed models to gain so-called better performance on the super old PCs. It’s just fooling yourself at all. People with slow PCs should just low down the details, but not to set all of them to full and say “oh, it’s FPS monster”. I would just switch off my PC if I still need to face a simple cockpit on my screen with simple textures and rollcage. 2010 is coming, so there is no way to use the low-end display cards in 2007 to play with full details.

we do count on a good framerate using 1920/1200 AA 2x with a 24 car field. Thats our aim, and at his moment we even have FPS to spare.

UncleChuckle:
The detail of the model is irrelevant. If you let a 3 year old texture it, it’s going to look crap.
I’d laugh after all this if there is something fundamentally different with RF that renders all this work unusable. It’s always struck me as somewhat arrogant to say your mod is for RF2 when the sim isn’t even finished.
You may as well say it’s for RF 10.

Highly un-likely. A model is just a model and can be converted to any format needed. Textures are the same way… just convert to the needed format. Only major changes you’d probably see is material set-up/reflections, gauges/motec maybe lights, coll/shad models might be different and a few other little things. Nothing that can’t be updated. If rf1 was any indication the proper tools needed will be available.

Howie47:
How do they know that much detail will work in rFactor2? Some one has alot of confidence in ISI!

I have 100k poly models i’ve tested in rfactor and GTR2 and they work. You just can’t run more than a few cars :)

I don’t know if there is a poly limit.

I’d laugh after all this if there is something fundamentally different with RF that renders all this work unusable. It’s always struck me as somewhat arrogant to say your mod is for RF2 when the sim isn’t even finished.

You may as well say it’s for RF 10.