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There's a lot of stuff floating about these forums at the minute regarding the video shown at E3 yesterday, wether the damage was pre rendered, wether the whole thing was CGI etc. etc. so I've decided to a do a little breakdown of the video.
Nothing in this post or is concrete evidence, it is based upon this video alone and the opinions posted are just ideas and possibilities
Descriptions of images are BELOW the image.
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First up we have the first scene that suggested to me that this video was NOT pre rendered CGI. In the past we've seen pre rendered videos that looked stunning, often flawless. So would PD really spend all that time making a CGI video only to include the poorly textured flowers, wall and character? This could be a photomode location of a 'start of race' video that plays as the cars are lining up.
Again, the same as above but look at the left of the image. Probably the same start of race video.
Once again, why would you pre render something and leave in something as glaringly obvious as a repeated road texture, as seen here?
Onto the ever questionable damage from the trailer. First of all, the damage looks reasonable to me, as if it could happen on single car events, such as rallies. Wether it will survive to make it into events where there are loads of cars on track is yet to be seen. Not only do we see damage, but dirt too. Lots of it. Except for on the rear wheel arch panel. An early model for the dust mechanic? The area in question has been marked with red arrows.
Another case of dust stopping suddenly, as marked with red arrows. Also shown here are low res textures (Rally Japan door graphics) that would not have been rendered so badly for a CGI video. Could it be that each panel has dust rendered seperately onto it incase that panel then comes detached from the vehicle?
That's just plain weird. Maybe you can actually now turn collisions off for online racing?
Is it the Top Gear track or not? Hard to say, but those buildings do look remarkably similar to me. The only thing missing is the roof with the 3 points on it.
Nurburgring at sunset and sunrise. Or not. All the 2nd image is is a normal replay with a blue filter applied. The shadows of the trees are in the same direction and are the same length on both replays, so the time of day is the same.
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If anyone has anything they want to add, post away. I just hope this doesn't turn into a massive argument about nothing. If it does I will lock it.
Nothing in this post or is concrete evidence, it is based upon this video alone and the opinions posted are just ideas and possibilities
Descriptions of images are BELOW the image.
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First up we have the first scene that suggested to me that this video was NOT pre rendered CGI. In the past we've seen pre rendered videos that looked stunning, often flawless. So would PD really spend all that time making a CGI video only to include the poorly textured flowers, wall and character? This could be a photomode location of a 'start of race' video that plays as the cars are lining up.
Again, the same as above but look at the left of the image. Probably the same start of race video.
Once again, why would you pre render something and leave in something as glaringly obvious as a repeated road texture, as seen here?
Onto the ever questionable damage from the trailer. First of all, the damage looks reasonable to me, as if it could happen on single car events, such as rallies. Wether it will survive to make it into events where there are loads of cars on track is yet to be seen. Not only do we see damage, but dirt too. Lots of it. Except for on the rear wheel arch panel. An early model for the dust mechanic? The area in question has been marked with red arrows.
Another case of dust stopping suddenly, as marked with red arrows. Also shown here are low res textures (Rally Japan door graphics) that would not have been rendered so badly for a CGI video. Could it be that each panel has dust rendered seperately onto it incase that panel then comes detached from the vehicle?
That's just plain weird. Maybe you can actually now turn collisions off for online racing?
Is it the Top Gear track or not? Hard to say, but those buildings do look remarkably similar to me. The only thing missing is the roof with the 3 points on it.
Nurburgring at sunset and sunrise. Or not. All the 2nd image is is a normal replay with a blue filter applied. The shadows of the trees are in the same direction and are the same length on both replays, so the time of day is the same.
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If anyone has anything they want to add, post away. I just hope this doesn't turn into a massive argument about nothing. If it does I will lock it.
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I haven't updated it in a while so I could be wrong.
