Because the feeling is important, and to get the feeling some may need laserscanning and some not. Some even can accept fantasy tracks if it feels right. Like i wrote, it's how your brain accept it.
Some have higher standards of realism then others i guess. It´s probably more of a thing where when there is no laserscanned tracks then you accept the fact. But when you have experience laser scanned tracks you think a bit differently.
How did you compare then? What are your valid arguments against mine some posts above?
Just by looking a photo for example. Or if iRacing and another game has the same track all you have to do is drive on it to feel the massive difference in feel and realism. Laser scanned tracks also adds so much more to the FFB.
The real world drivers are going through a lot more than you think, believe me. No Sim can ever simulate that or even get close. A sim is just a mental training tool for professionals and a tool to develop a base setup.
Again you miss-understand the whole sentence. I know exactly what the driver feels from the track. I know exaclty how he feels the elevations or small small bumps in the map that is not seen by a camera. But i know it because i´ve driven on that track.
It´s not just a mental traning. You can actually learn a track down to the tiniest bump before you even go to the real track.
Huge difference then playing some homemade track made in some basement by some sweaty bloke.
Didn't mean you personally, was more speaking in general. Feelings are not objective, feelings are more related to beliefs than anything else. You could only question your feelings if you would have the ability to do a fair comparison between laserscanning an no laserscanning wich you obviusly haven't done yet, like i said, comparing different sims to get to a conclusion that laserscanning is really necessary isn't fair, period.
But you see you are wrong. I have played several games and tried several racetracks in games and NOTHING comes close to the level of iRacing. It´s clear that YOU obviously haven´t tried iRacing´s tracks.
I think it is. Because it´s two sims trying to create realism and one of them fails because it´s impossible to recreate a track exactly without laserscanning. You can get the layout fairly similar but it´s still lightyears away.
They do it because it will be used as training tool for professionals like RF Pro, not because the marketing of iracing wich is making you believe that it's a must for everybody to feel as real as possible.
Wrong. They do it because they have seen the success iRacing has had with it and everyone that knows sims knows that the tracks in iRacing are their biggest selling points.
Love the Rfactor PRo stuff aswell. It´s myth that every F1 team uses Rfactor or similar. Rfactor Pro is merely a base for the teams own programs so at the end of the day there is no Rfactor Pro left.
And then we can discuss the fact that certain teams developed their own sim long before Rfactor existed. Like Williams.
I think you really have no idea what laserscanning is all about, that it's just data wich has to be translated into code. Tell me please, why do you think artificial data would feel different? A comparison with how tires, dampers, springs etc. react with laserscaned track data is just hilarious.. made my day..
You are wrong again. The point of laserscanning a track is to get a copy of the real track down to the millimeter.
It´s not data that has to be translated into code. In iRacing you drive on the pointcloud itself and not on the visual track.
The rest i have no idea what you mean.. you seem fairly confused and not really knowing what you talk about.
Which is understandable because you probably have never driven on a laserscanned track in the first place.
Most of the iracing people i discussed with just ignore valid arguments, they often even have any themselfes. That's the reason i said it seems like a religion to me, not more not less. The only valid argument is the feeling of realism, and that's very subjective not objective.
Have a lough
Most guys that i talk to that haven´t driven a meter on a laserscanned track just talks a bunch of crap about stuff they really have no idea about.
And usually it comes down to the person not having the money to spend on iRacing and thus creates a hate towards a product simply because they can´t afford it.
Realism is not subjective. Either it´s more realistic or it´s not. Plain and simple. But you would not know that, you have never experienced it.
