OK its simulate being in car,but what about being out side car you can have tachometer @ mph, even a rear view mirror outside of car.But no wipers in rain.makes it hard too race in rain using hood cam
Well, I always thought the rear view mirror, tachometer, speedometer, lap counter, etc… were like a “Heads Up Display”, kind of like the Iron Man suit.
But I guess this does raise the question; shouldn’t there be “visor” wipers?
What if you’re driving during a rainstorm, but you’re required to sit on the hood? How would your vision be from that location in real life?
You would have no mirrors or wipers from the hood, correct?
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I have to say this is the weirdest argument I’ve ever heard against wipers in hood view. Is hood view meant to be a realistic simulation of someone sitting on my hood? Then why can’t I see that guy sitting on my hood from cockpit view? Does he ever fall off during cornering? Does the game’s physics engine take the guy’s weight into account? So many questions…
But seriously, I’ve always thought hood view was meant as a representation of what I would see of my car when using a wheel, with my monitor screen being more or less in the position of the car’s windshield. I don’t care much about wipers as I practically never use hood view, but there’s no real argument for not having them, especially seeing how we get a rearview mirror and a rev meter in hood view.
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or a heads ups display like tech/mph,put its there
I really don’t understand your post. Of course there’s no windscreen wipers in Hood View, why would there be?
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This. The wipers would be behind you, and unless you have eyes in your A…
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For the same reason rain collects on your screen in that view, obviously.
Rain collects on the screen because it is simulating a camera sitting on the hood, getting water on the lens. There would be no wipers on a camera lens.
Sure. And in chase view it’s simulating rain on the magical camera fairy’s lens. Don’t try to pretend it has anything to do with realism. It’s wholly a questionable aesthetic choice.
Chase view is still a camera. It’s not some magical thing floating above the track. Some of you just look for reasons to bring out the pitchforks.
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A magical camera that maintains a steady fixed position floating above the track behind a quick and potentially chaotically moving vehicle. Some of you go to ridiculous lengths to try to hand wave away arguably poor aesthetic choices as realism. Apparently out of some sort of misguided defensiveness, as there are no pitchforks here, nor torches. There’s barely a guy with a protest sign standing at the entrance and looking sad, metaphorically speaking. And I’m not even that guy, I’m just a passerby who can see he has a fair point.
Because you have other aids for driving like the tach/speedo and rear-view mirror that you wouldnt have if you were sitting on the hood. If you have those two, why not the third?
If you’re in Hood View, you’re laying on the hood, so you would be steering with your knees or hips… I don’t know how you would work the peddles, and don’t even get me started on shifting…
Update; I can see that one would argue that any other camera view then in cockpit you wouldn’t see the windshield wipers,but then why is there a rear view mirror or tech/mph,It really don’t matter to me any more,As I tried cockpit view and wipers really don’t help much with the rain anyways
Well, it should be harder to drive in the rain.
What if the driver wears these?
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That is indeed a virtual camera, as in not real. Just like everything else in the game. None of it exists and i dare say they didn’t consider putting wipers where there aren’t any. It’s a choice made by developers who didn’t think anyone in hood view should see where they’re going. It’s as simple as that.
They’re not even proper cameras within the context of the game’s virtual reality. Personally, I don’t think wipers in those views are a sensible solution, but rather there should just be the option to disable the effect. Then again, I also don’t find that it obstructs my vision terribly. In hood view I find that other cars tend to be more of an obstruction than anything else. Still, it’s generally better than driver view, which is like driving with your passenger side eye closed and a blinder on your driver side.
Over the years I have been on a few motorbikes in the rain and they have got it pretty right IMO