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This is the discussion thread for an article on GTPlanet:
Gran Turismo 7’s Real-Time Skybox Simulation Detailed in GDC Presentation
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Still askinh myslef why many locations don’t have full day night cylce snd most of them no rain.
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Yet still no volumetric clouds....
(and Driveclub beat them to it almost a decade earlier)
In Driveclub you could literally see clouds form infront of the mountains, say for example not being able to see the top of Mt. Fuji (like most days irl)
We simply do not have this in GT7 despite Driveclub running on inferior hardware.
In the last photo you can see sun-rays bursting through the clouds gaps. Which is all in realtime 3D.
Even Driveclub was not the first, in fact, that might go to Warhawk on the PS3 all the way back in 2006 with fully simulated 3d volumetric clouds.
(and Driveclub beat them to it almost a decade earlier)
In Driveclub you could literally see clouds form infront of the mountains, say for example not being able to see the top of Mt. Fuji (like most days irl)
We simply do not have this in GT7 despite Driveclub running on inferior hardware.
In the last photo you can see sun-rays bursting through the clouds gaps. Which is all in realtime 3D.
Even Driveclub was not the first, in fact, that might go to Warhawk on the PS3 all the way back in 2006 with fully simulated 3d volumetric clouds.
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if you had read their presentation maybe you'd get how they did it differently
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30fps vs 60fps.
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Insane level of dedication and detail for something that most players won't even appreciate. Driveclub looks great but it's 30 FPS as stated and in some static shots (like in car selection screen) DC still looks a bit unnatural in the way the light diffuses and reflects off surfaces. Lots of games look good but only Gran Turismo can make things look natural.
If only they afford as much care and attention to car physics though. Lots of cars still have wrong downforce and top speed figures. Basic stuff. Complex stuff like tyre modelling even F1 teams can get it wrong, but basic specs that anyone with internet can readily check shouldn't be wrong.
If only they afford as much care and attention to car physics though. Lots of cars still have wrong downforce and top speed figures. Basic stuff. Complex stuff like tyre modelling even F1 teams can get it wrong, but basic specs that anyone with internet can readily check shouldn't be wrong.
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It's a pity they forgot to build a proper game around that pretty skybox tech that they have been obsessed with for the past 19 years (ever since they started working on GT5)...
Something that GT7 can't afford even on PS5 and with all that ray-tracing fancy tech.
Let's not forget about realtime Screen Space reflections...on a standard ps4...in a launch title...
Something that GT7 can't afford even on PS5 and with all that ray-tracing fancy tech.
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This bugs me.. PD are great developers don't get me wrong but why is it they have this great tech for skyboxes and weather and day/night cycles but it is not implemented across the entire game?? It is so frustrating that PD seems to develop something really cool and then they don't deliver it or deliver it in bits and pieces. Sophy was a fun thing, add it to the game! Nope, you get a taste of it and now it's gone. Weather and day/night cycles are cool, ADD IT TO EVERY TRACK.
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Because to add it to every track, PoDi has to takes a lot of data from these tracks. And directly on site. (Plus geographical data as explained on the article). Process this amount of data takes a HUGE amount of time. If you can wait the game until 2035, so yeah PoDi can brings weather and day/night cycles to every track.
For example : it takes many months to Playground games to replicate the weather of one location from real data (Australia in Forza Horizon 3). (It is not an issue for fake data, like in FM7, Drive Club and others games).
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PD recently uploaded their presentation in pptx format, so there was a chance to extract some videos from SkySim raw demos. Here are some examples (please excuse the image quality due to compression):
Weather transitions with smooth cloud animations.
Texels adaptive mapping in Look-up Table (LUT) visualization.
Weather and cloud transitions at 10x speed.
There might be many GT7 sky time-lapse videos shared on YouTube, such as those posted by @Destroy321 , @Vspectra and @Whistle Snap , but these demos show cloud animations better synced with changes in weather conditions.
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