As I've always said regarding this ... if they can just do it ... I'll be very understanding of the technical challenges. I don't care if they can make it look realistic. What I care about is the creativity that this opens up to create new tracks. The possibilities are limitless. And it's rare in gaming or in anything else for that matter where that's the case.
Some examples:
1. Suppose it takes me 17 minutes to get from my house to the grocery store. How long would it take me if there were no stop lights and I was in an F40? Lets find out.
2. Suppose it takes me 2:14 to do a lap at Eagles Canyon Raceway in my Miata. How long would it take me in a Miata in GT6? Lets find out.
Etc.
Sure, after you've done this a few hundred times, it will be boring. But that gives them a few years to work on an editor that would allow you to take user generated tracks and fully customize them. Maybe in 2020? Here's hoping.
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For sure, I've always been interested in this tech, but was mostly passively paying attention because I didn't think they'd go with a mobile app and it would just be available to a few people who both race and own toyotas, for instance.
However, this
is sounding a LOT better.
I just caution people from reading this and getting their hopes up that they'll be able to recreate anything, because unless they have that ability to load up the track in the editor (which would make sense but PD doesn't always do what makes sense) then you won't be able to get that corner just as sharp as it should be, and as wide as it should be etc. Because if you want to do your #2 above (no pun intended) then you need to have the corners correct.
In order to recreate a track accurately
we may be able to do some things to mitigate any lack of fidelity that this feature may inevitably have.
I think we should drive on the perfect center at our track of choice so that the game at least doesn't get confused between the center line and the driving line, which we know are two VASTLY different lines. Make sense?
Unless they have foreseen and provided a solution for all of the things I'm bringing up, I think the feature will indeed be really cool, but not quite what some of you are envisioning, which is why I offer some words of caution about hopes. What we want is for your Miata lap to really be as close to possible to your real one so that you can make a verifiable comparison between the way the cars behave at that track, and how well GT recreates real world physics.
