WRC4 WRC 4 The Game

[Bram Hengeveld]

On the iOpener website there is a very interesting article about an upcoming World Rally Championship simulator:

World Rally Championship's next game: Racing live against rally heroes

The next generation WRC computer game will allow players to 'compete' in live rallies", states ISC chairman Neil Duncanson in the April version of SportBusiness International magazine. ISC, the global promoter of the World Rally Championship (WRC), mentions WRC's ultimate goal as building up an online gaming world championship alongside the real thing.
ISC and the computer gaming industry believe the next step in gaming is this 'live' competition between gamers and real drivers, made possible through iOpener's patented technology.
ISC CEO Simon Long says: "Now we are a global promoter, we want this to be multi-platform, multi-publisher, multi-territory."
For Long and Duncanson the new game is part of WRC's broader efforts to appeal new fans beyond the hardcore enthusiastics. FIA's chairman Max Mosley has said the virtual champion will be honoured at the WRC's annual end-of-season awards ceremony in Monaco.

Source: iOpener Media

Last April we already brought you the first news about iOpener Media's beta testers recruitment for their Real Time Racing project.

The news about this technology where virtual racers can compete against the real drivers on the track in real time is now spreading amoung the simracing communities.

iOpener is still looking for the worlds best simracers to join their beta test program that's about to start soon. If you are interested in joining then you can sign up on the RTR website

 

[Jebus]

I have G25 and THRS8 gearstick working perfectly fine without any tricks. Gears in THRS8 and handbrake in G25's sequential stick. They show as one controller in game menu but I can bind keys for both of them with no problem. I don't understand why people keeps saying that only one peripheral works. It's possible that support for certain controllers needs to be coded in to the game, but it's simply not true that game support only one controller at time.

 

[Sébastien Degraeve]

Hi modmate,
V1.0 is very good for me.A little too much contrast in comparison with the original.
V1.1 seems a little in a "cartoon style".Constrast perfect!

I think a mix between the two versions would be a good compromise.
Thx a lot

 

[J van E]

Another one, this time RWD @ Monte. This is looking really good, I can't wait till it's released!

Pardon my undoubtedly utter ignorance but when you say this is 'looking really good', I wonder what I have to look at...? Because to me this video and all others related to this mod look exactly like the game I already have...

 

[Appie Kuipers]

Ashame, does look bad on my screen, most color is gone, all looks dark with dull colors!!
It's not your mod, it will be my screen I think, Ashame!

 

[Kai Lohmann]

Hi modmate,
V1.0 is very good for me.A little too much contrast in comparison with the original.
V1.1 seems a little in a "cartoon style".Constrast perfect!

I think a mix between the two versions would be a good compromise.
Thx a lot

Hey

I tried alot , but that was the downside for changing to non Technicolour setup.
I will try around a bit more today to maybe get 2 versions up but you should also try a stage like argentina to check colours or maybe set your screen a bit, just to test.

 

[Patrick Spence]

The way the car moves, the physics. You can tell it slides MUCH more and behaves more realistically than the normal physics, which on an icy Monte Carlo stage this looks about right.

 

[Patrick Spence]

It supports more than one, but it's totally hit or miss what works and how it works IMO. I have a Clubsport wheel that works fine, TH8RS set up as handbrake that works, Clubsport pedals hooked up stand alone to USB that work but have a 70% deadzone that I can't get rid of, doesn't recognize my DSD sequential so I have to use paddles to shift.

Really hope they work out the controller issues with a patch soon. I can play, but it's not ideal.

 

[Jebus]

...TH8RS...

Everytime I make this mistake, write THRS8 instead of correct way. Those damn acronyms, always confuses me.

/OT

 

[Kai Lohmann]

Anyone interested please give this a try:

Reference stage is - Argentina Casilla Negra
Ingame AA 2x

http://www.mediafire.com/?h20m9zbdavfvfd8

Still WIP and please reply on the above stage also. White colour is even without any modification a bit oversaturated so i need to find the way between.

 

[hansip87]

Yup, hairpin is about getting grip sooner after turning the car drastically. can be 0.5 to 1 second of difference.

 

[Sébastien Degraeve]

I find the image too dark compared to other versions.Contrast and color are slightly higher compared to V1.1.
There is always this problem in the clouds (watercolour).I don't know if this is because of the sharpness...














Thx for your great work modmate

 

[MJRL]

Thanks for your reply, Lee (Scorz).
Your kind support is always a great help for me.
Much appreciated

Hi Tommi could we expect a mod for using all cars in WRC mod?

 

[Kai Lohmann]

Hey,

You may try it at the stage i say and also with the cockpit view please, i know its looking different from the other views but i just drive cockpit view.

 

[Tommi-TAG]

Hi Tommi could we expect a mod for using all cars in WRC mod?

Hello, MJRL.
Thanks for your reply and question.
I think you/we already know this, but just for confirmation we can drive all cars in "Free Run" mode in "Road to Glory". It's ok.
Maybe what you mean is "All cars in WRC Experience Mode" I think.
I also have the same question and am looking into the files.
But at this time, I'm not sure whether it's possible or not, sorry.
I'd like to report if some progress is made, and also hope someone will figure it out and make it too.
Thank you

 

[Tommi-TAG]

Hello, modmate.
Thanks for Ver.1.1 update.
Just driven and my impression is the graphics becomes nicely clear and sharp.
Also the same as the previous version, the saturation is very well adjusted and each lighting effect looks very natural.
It feels really good to drive SS with this Mod.
Thanks again for all of your hard work and sharing this nice work !

 

[Patrick Spence]

Update on EC's Facebook -

"We keep working really hard into the ADVANCED Physics Engine during our free times.

Main surfaces and tyre parameters feels in the good way and now, we are focusing into the each specific car physics.

There, we will study and aply the msot important parameters for each car like:

- Mass
- Inertia
- Gearbox element & ratio
- Suspension specs and height
- Etc ...

Right now, the average code changes are seted around 70 files and 15.000 lines ...

Step by step."

 

[Sébastien Degraeve]

Thx Tommi-TAG for your cockpit camera mod

 

[murkz]

Thank you for the heads up Patrick

 

[Tommi-TAG]

Thanks for your kind credit, Sebastien Degraeve.
Very nice comparison, and thanks to modmate's Mod we can see the great improvement of HDR !

 

[Kai Lohmann]

Agreed , thx sebastien!

I tried alot to get both pros of v 1 and 1.1 but its really hard to do since i changed the way i setup the files in 1.1.
Therefore it would be great if you all say wich Version you prefer and i will tweak on that then. V1 or 1.1 ?

Greets Modmate