Visually its very special. Gameplay wise not so special, but I'm having a lot of fun with it.
Its one of my favorite arcade racers in recent years and the visuals really make the races more thrilling than in any other game.
Just look at it:
I never noticed that there's no weather in the rear view mirror.
Like I've said earlier, they're showing a simplified version of the scene.I never noticed that there's no weather in the rear view mirror.
I never noticed that there's no weather in the rear view mirror.
It's not an issue of not refreshing.
Very typical. Running a full geometry pass of the scene is expensive, even at low resolutions. Most games seem to not render things like small foliage in these reflections. Some games have a very limited draw distance in the mirror, like Ridge Racer 7. Some games refresh reflections at lower framerate, like Forza. Some games send their visibility solutions into overdrive and have hilarious amounts of pop-out, like GT5's magical invisible terrain of the Eiger Nordwand K Trail.
From certain angles the side mirrors would be reflecting something drawn on the screen (the side of a car for instance). I don't think I've ever seen a racer has a car that reflects itself in the side mirrors.
I never said that they're using SSR for the mirrors (I explicitly said that they don't).
What I think is going on is that every frame, they render a cubemap with a camera placed at the center of the car. The cubemap is then used as, well, a cubemap. It's not precise at the mirrors because it was rendered at the middle of the car. So in that particular shot, instead of the mirrors showing what was behind and to the left of the mirror (the body of the car), it shows what was behind and to the left of the car (the bridge railing).
That's pretty cool. I wish they left that in because it's a nice detail. It should be there in Sim racers especially because it's simply more realistic.
If you read some of the comments on that video, the dev said that footage was captured directly from a ps4 no CGI BS
Ah okay, it's just that your phrasing let me believe you were under the impression that I thought they were using SSR.
My tiny brain can't see how the scene would be rendered onto a cube, here.
Imagine looking straight up. Render what you see into a square frame with a field of view of 90 degrees.
You obviously understand how a rear-facing render would be applied to the rearview mirror from the cockpit perspective. The only real difference between that and a real-time cubemap is that the cubemap would have a wider field of view. And by using a wide field of view, you can use the rendered reflection for real-time reflections for the entire car body (not just rear-facing mirrors).
Yeah it definitely does. Photomode would look really weird without it lol.
Ok, going PURELY ON THOSE SCREENSHOTS...
Yes, you indeed can see it from the photo mode image I posted earlier, where there's some bridge frame reflecting on the roof of the car that isn't visible on the scene.
Ahh. I sent you a picture on PSN that shows it too.
I'm just telling you what the devs said when one person said it was CGI, they said it was capture from gameplay on the Ps4.
Yep.
Ferrari Dino:
Photo Travel
On-track model
There's more to it than FXAA:
Alex Perkins said:
Macro blocking from the jpeg compression doesn't make this particular shot a good example. It is a pretty shot though.Looks pretty great to me:
(From the console screenshot thread)
DC is one of the games that actually makes me want to get a capture card.
It shouldn't be hard to prove. IIRC tour events all have the same exact weather and lighting conditions so you could relatively easily compare a shot taken from an earlier version of the game to one now. If there's a notable difference even jpegs should show it.
