DriveClub by Evolution Studios [PS4]
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Downloaded the update, and I must say DC is still the sexiest racer out there. I can't believe the weather effects that I'm seeing.
It can't be just a texture. You can clearly see the water collecting at the bottom of the windscreen and reacting to the car's inertia when turning, slowing down and accelerating. Surely some of the experts can explain how they can do that?
OMG OMG so this is what it feels to be a record holder! The names are the same as each other! WOW!
(lol)
This is a video I took of Reach's rain, although it was with a really awful SD capture card, and Youtube seems to have murdered the slow-mo part of the footage and made it look all choppy (the video also was intended to show off something other than what we're discussing). Here's a let's play video that shows the gist of what the level looks like? Like DC it uses a particle system for local raindrops, but it softens and stretches them more so they don't look like opaque white objects when they're in motion, and effect is augmented with careful implementation of more "ad-hoc" effects to help mitigate the mid-distance drawbacks of particle bubbles. Obviously it's a more "tailored" effect built to a specific environment, and the game it's serving isn't quite hyper-realistic, but the end appearance definitely looks more natural to me, largely avoiding the impression I get from DC of raindrops being nearby opaque white objects.
(lol)
It seems to be using a particle-based simulation.
"Weather simulation" is more general than what I'm talking about; overall the effects of weather in DC are utterly insane. My qualm is with the visualization of airborne particles. I brought up the example of New Alexandria in Halo Reach as probably my favorite from what I've played.
This is a video I took of Reach's rain, although it was with a really awful SD capture card, and Youtube seems to have murdered the slow-mo part of the footage and made it look all choppy (the video also was intended to show off something other than what we're discussing). Here's a let's play video that shows the gist of what the level looks like? Like DC it uses a particle system for local raindrops, but it softens and stretches them more so they don't look like opaque white objects when they're in motion, and effect is augmented with careful implementation of more "ad-hoc" effects to help mitigate the mid-distance drawbacks of particle bubbles. Obviously it's a more "tailored" effect built to a specific environment, and the game it's serving isn't quite hyper-realistic, but the end appearance definitely looks more natural to me, largely avoiding the impression I get from DC of raindrops being nearby opaque white objects.
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Billy Idol
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Holy shit...I am currently not in the mod for some driving action...but those pics really push me towards booting the game up! Does it really look like that in game?!? (was quite disappointed by the rain drops in GT).
Check it out. I was shocked, even after having seen the videos and pictures online. It's not just the look of the environment when it's wet, which gives everything that amazing Infamous:SS look, but the movement of water on the windscreen, which is something I've simply never seen in a game.
what happens in multiplayer then? For some reason this made me think you'd see a separate bubble around each car in multiplayer, but then I just realized that they would only put one just over your own car.
RenegadeRocks
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I would like to see the review scores it would have got if it had released with this update. This is the best looking game ever,as of now !
I don't see any game beating it anytime soon ! This is fantastic CG racing right here, right now
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I don't see any game beating it anytime soon ! This is fantastic CG racing right here, right now
!I've had time to play around with the Single events and changing weather parameters and time of day and OH MY GOD. The stormy+night+rain combination is just ridiculous. The way the particles of rain light up realistically, the lightning... Amazing.
i wonder how their lightning system works, if it's something randomly generated or predetermined paths and forms
http://i.imgur.com/OcGbbt3.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/OcGbbt3.jpg
Now I REALLY want to see a next-gen Motorstorm with this engine. Imagine the possibilities.
With their attention to detail, jaws will drop one more time when they release the replay mode.
http://i.imgur.com/UcYL16q.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/UcYL16q.jpg
i saw some people somewhere asking for fog, but technically it's already there, if you race tracks which go at high altitudes you race through clouds.
http://i.imgur.com/bkqnW2E.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/pKf05hi.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Ps0uyXU.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/bkqnW2E.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/pKf05hi.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Ps0uyXU.jpg
I wanted to see how large the 'bubble' of particles around the car is and, in photomode at least, it doesn't even feel like a bubble as it covers the whole area you can look at with the camera. With heavy snow (easier to see) there must be an untold amount of particles on screen at once, no idea how many but it must be in the hundreds of thousands.
Also, to go back to the game. Damn it's a hard game. Now with the rain the visibility goes down even more and handling is affected too. I'll never complete it, I'm stuck halfway through the tour. Might have to check the multiplayer to see if I can have more fun there, cause the Tour is just unforgivingly difficult.
Also, to go back to the game. Damn it's a hard game. Now with the rain the visibility goes down even more and handling is affected too. I'll never complete it, I'm stuck halfway through the tour. Might have to check the multiplayer to see if I can have more fun there, cause the Tour is just unforgivingly difficult.
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