Question about the graphics please

As I said it's WIP, should be released once AMS is out of EA so the chances of updates that break the mod reduce drastically.

 

Are you sure about UE4? Cryengine seems a lot better for racing games...
(Some UE games are heavy...)
@Renato Simioni I know is still early but I will love to know how is going with new game engine...(I don't ask for a dev blog but will be great to see how a sim growths)

 

Thanks for your reply, AMS graphic is ok for me, I don't urge for a new engine right now but I am sincerely curious to know how is going, wich are the tecnical difficulties or good surprises, etc etc but I understand would be time consuming for you guys...so I will sit and wait...

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You are faster than me..as usual lol, thanks for your reply!!!

 

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Just curious but is there anything done in the Boxer Cup (on visuals) that wasn't done for some other cars/tracks? I think that car looks a bit "above" the level of others in the game. I could be mistaken tho, I'm not good at watching details at all but the car just looks like it has something more while VIR looks like it has something lacking compared to other tracks (also on visuals), don't know how to explain :s

 

I think boxer Cup needs some adjustments, I suffer some fps loss while racing with them...

 

I think many of us ... and by that I mean me , aren't terribly concerned with the graphics because of two main reasons.

1- The graphic are already good enough to provide suspension of disbelief and allow you to immerse yourself in the feeling of being in the car, on the track. Personally I find much of the other high end graphic stuff over the top and actually detracts from this suspension of disbelief.

2- More importantly, the games industry has a sordid history, starting in the early 2000s, when graphics started getting far more developed, and getting steadily worse since then, of pouring resources into shiny bells and whistles which look great in a trailer, but at the expense of depth of game play and things that matter in the long term enjoyment of a game - in the case of racing games: physics, car handling, and artificial intelligence. And often the shiny bells and whistles both are used to appeal to the broadest audience and require the capital from a huge user base. However, appealing to the lowest common denominator and depth of simulation and game play rarely go hand-in-hand. This is also, I think, why so many pc racers take every opportunity to trash console gaming.

So yes, if I can have it ALL then bring on the fancy graphics (just no motion blur please - it's just plain ridiculous). But if resources are limited, fancy graphics rate fairly low on the priority list for me. There are enough developers chasing graphics bling, we don't need Reiza becoming just another one like the rest.

I appreciate the argument that better graphics means more buyers, which means more resources to play with. But that has to come with a very adept ability to scale simulation vs game as well, because it isn't impressive graphics alone that makes a game appeal to the masses. And again, we have enough F1 2016s in the market already.

 

I see. Well to me something in VIR seems to be out of place. I'll check my video card setting once again to see if anything is wrong there thanks for answering

 

Any words about the cockpit driver animation?

 

If anything seems amiss with VIR its probably just due to the fact that its a sprawling open green space with relatively few man made objects and where the existing graphics engine seems to falter is in representing nature. Major improvements in graphics have come for the more man made end of things which is easier to accomplish but things like trees, which constitute a huge part of the background, are obviously not going to look as good.

A place like Spielberg is similarly open however also tends to look a bit more natural because its got that fantastic but relatively distant vista which can be very nicely represented with lower fidelity graphics while the trees at VIR are very much in your face.

Frankly when you look at VIR in real life it basically looks like someone was planning a rather bland looking golf course and at the last minute someone paved a race track instead. Its hardly the prettiest place in reality frankly, the now departed Oak Tree aside.


I think if Reiza had some next gen grass physics with DX12 shaded bumblebees people would probably be a lot more enthused.* XD

*warning, extreme lacing of irony present in this sentence

 

I visited VIR this past weekend and I can say that the place has never looked better. There was a lot of rain in Virginia during the month of May and I think this contributed to everything looking very green and fresh.

 

Well usually when I see it its washed out by mid summer sun beating on it. Even so, lush grass is not the best thing that the current graphics engine does, not to mention the lack of any HDR lighting on such a vast expanse is going to be obvious.

But I guess I just miss the Oak Tree.

 

Same here

 

I'm sure VIR will not look as nice when I go back there in August for the IMSA race. I, too, miss the Oak Tree. It's not the same corner without tree limbs hanging over the track.

 

@Rob Nelson Talk about a buzzkill, that picture has two depressing items in it.

Firstly no Oak Tree anymore, then no Falken team either.

 

LFS graphics are now better than AMS, they have retuned the lighting and it looks fantastic on their dated game engine. The lighting is key to the graphics, not so much the details.

 

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