GT5 Night Racing and weather question??

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Hello all newbie here :dopey:

Well i have been reading around the forums and in every single forum someone mentions night racing and a weather system for Gran Turismo 5.

Well im just wondering as everyone speaks as if this has been confirmed or hinted at by PD themselves. Is it just a rumor/ what we hope for or has it actually been confirmed?
 
Welcome to the GTforums.

It is just speculation and wishful thinking. Sorry.
 
ok i thought so.

It just had me wondering what a technical masterpieace GT5 will/could be if it does. Rendering 16 cars at night with weather in cockpit view. All the lights within the car plus the outside car/street lights will/could be an amazing sight to see and could truly be a breathe taking moment for racing games!

so hopefully it will be announced the 18th :)
 
Torero82
Welcome to the GTforums.

It is just speculation and wishful thinking. Sorry.
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That's not entirely true, there have been numerous videos showcasing nightracing, there was a fantastic one but i can't remember which, that gave you the tiniest glimpse of a black BMW with fluorescent lights shining off it(Probably Tokyo night track or something like that), if ingame the reflections look like that at night i'll be flabergasted. Can't remember which vid it is, if anyone knows it would be appreciated to post here:)

Edit: Heres the vid and a snapshot of the bit i mean.


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Ok, I know night racing has been in GT before. I just assumed the OP knew that and was talking about day/night cycles, but I forgot to clarify that.
 
Torero82
Ok, I know night racing has been in GT before. I just assumed the OP knew that and was talking about day/night cycles, but I forgot to clarify that.
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Yes that's partly what i meant.

But also night racing hasn't really been done too well IMO. Not that it was bad or anything but im wondering that maybe this time around with the power of the ps3 they can add light sources to headlights and all the instruments in that car. That in cockpit view would be EPIC
 
Anyone remember Rome night circuit from GT2? That was an excellent track.
 
dafecruz
Yes that's partly what i meant.

But also night racing hasn't really been done too well IMO. Not that it was bad or anything but im wondering that maybe this time around with the power of the ps3 they can add light sources to headlights and all the instruments in that car. That in cockpit view would be EPIC
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I think you can bet on all that been in:)
 
I actually expect night and weather this time around. I mean, when GT4 was being developed, Pd must have felt that the 24hr races were dull without them but couldn't do it because of the PS2's limits with GT sized details. With a PS3 architecture, that shouldn't be a problem as Grid did it (You can argue Grid isn't as graphically detailed as GT5 but the time dynamics were still impressive).
 
surely if that POS game called GRID has DYNAMIC lighting PD will use it for GT5!
 
Well Grid was fun for what it is: arcadey racer with crazy crashes.
 
Anyone remember tahiti circuit brilliant track loved the bumpy hills and long left hand turns imagine racing at night on some dark tracks and some lighted ones and wheather is a must be without it a game really is'nt a game forza only has day racing in the dry gt had wet racing on 4 an i think with the ps3's power and its alot that we should get most of what we want cuz blue ray disk is just a new bench mark most of all we want radical race cars like keonigsegg and others we want unlimited tunung options like a civic pumping 600hp and dynamic weather and more night racing oh yea can we have some hill climbs like wat was in forza 1 loved that drifting was so cool anyway let jus keep hoping and also wishin it will come out soon cuz im bored of my games now
 
i just made an intresting observation from the gt5p intro up at the top forum, or the US intro at least... hhmm i think it may be evident that there will b night and day cycles, becuz if u take a look at the first seconds of the trailer u see the sun coming up! wut u guys think !? i really didnt noticed dat b4... lol how could we have missed dat? pretty evident to me more so now..
 
i also have a feeling PD tryed to hide the night day cycle in gt5p becuz if u ask urself why are all the track at the same time of day, in gt4, most if not all da tracks have a dif time of day i believe.. i know gt5p is just a demo an all but all the courses look exactly same time of day mabe implying that they wanted to cover up the cycles of day so no one would notice.... idk im just thinking here
 
one of my all time favorite tracks from GT? SS route 5 wet- GT3. i just couldnt get enough of that track, it was one to show off ps2 to your mates to!!

weather and a day night cycle would be one of the best additions to any sim, because it throws another element into the mix. imagine day/night cycle on le mans endurance races, and having to pit for wet tyres? it would be fantastic. it would also make for superb tactical online racing, if it could be balanced so the gap between cornering speed on wets and slicks were simulated correctly. not easy, considering it varies between a sopping wet track and a drying racing line naturally.

day/night cycle was to be included in PGR4, but apparently the extra textures and such would not fit on the disc. weather worked very well IMO, even on short races like 5 laps it came in gradually and subtly. if GT can replicate that then its another feather in the cap
 
ryry74
Anyone remember tahiti circuit brilliant track loved the bumpy hills and long left hand turns imagine racing at night on some dark tracks and some lighted ones and wheather is a must be without it a game really is'nt a game forza only has day racing in the dry gt had wet racing on 4 an i think with the ps3's power and its alot that we should get most of what we want cuz blue ray disk is just a new bench mark most of all we want radical race cars like keonigsegg and others we want unlimited tunung options like a civic pumping 600hp and dynamic weather and more night racing oh yea can we have some hill climbs like wat was in forza 1 loved that drifting was so cool anyway let jus keep hoping and also wishin it will come out soon cuz im bored of my games now
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zeromobius
i just made an intresting observation from the gt5p intro up at the top forum, or the US intro at least... hhmm i think it may be evident that there will b night and day cycles, becuz if u take a look at the first seconds of the trailer u see the sun coming up! wut u guys think !? i really didnt noticed dat b4... lol how could we have missed dat? pretty evident to me more so now..
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zeromobius
i also have a feeling PD tryed to hide the night day cycle in gt5p becuz if u ask urself why are all the track at the same time of day, in gt4, most if not all da tracks have a dif time of day i believe.. i know gt5p is just a demo an all but all the courses look exactly same time of day mabe implying that they wanted to cover up the cycles of day so no one would notice.... idk im just thinking here
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Less of the text speak please. Use English to the best of your ability when you post here. Also please don't double post. Use the edit button or the multi quote feature. Thanks.

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ryry74
Anyone remember tahiti circuit brilliant track loved the bumpy hills and long left hand turns imagine racing at night on some dark tracks and some lighted ones and wheather is a must be without it a game really is'nt a game forza only has day racing in the dry gt had wet racing on 4 an i think with the ps3's power and its alot that we should get most of what we want cuz blue ray disk is just a new bench mark most of all we want radical race cars like keonigsegg and others we want unlimited tunung options like a civic pumping 600hp and dynamic weather and more night racing oh yea can we have some hill climbs like wat was in forza 1 loved that drifting was so cool anyway let jus keep hoping and also wishin it will come out soon cuz im bored of my games now
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Holy **** dude, you need some fullstops, or a comma at least!
 
Don't know for sure, but really hope we get day-night and weather! I would love to have to pit in online races, to put rain tires on! That would be really cool!!:sly:👍
 
I can't imagine how Switzland would look in snowy weather.Or the blazing heat of the Australian rally tracks.
 
I'd rather see day/night cycling than weather, if I had a choice.

Having the ability to race EVERY circuit at night would be phenomenal!
 
We can count on weather to be in for sure,as for night/day cycle we still don't have any idea !
 
I would hope to have both. The strategy of going from wet to dry, or dry to wet, would be a very neat sim addition.
 
An awesome feature to have at night would be being able to flash the high beams when lapping a car ahead.
 
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An awesome feature to have at night would be being able to flash the high beams when lapping a car ahead.
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THAT would be cool, especially in online mode.
 
Honestly I have this fear... that the PS3 can't handle GT5 (GT5p) as it is now with weather, damage, and dynamic lighting (day/night) in addition to the high LOD, 1080p, 60fps, 16 cars on screen, Ai, and physics. I know it is one powerful machine but I feel like that may just be pushing it. This isn't GTR2. Everything in GT5 is more, and as a result doing things like weather, damage, and dynamic lighting become far more resource intensive.
 
lpfuelfan42
THAT would be cool, especially in online mode.
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On the flipside you have the person who can't take that you've overtaken them and sits up your arse with the full beams on...

I think it should be an automatic feature, so that when you're coming up behind someone you're about to lap then the computer will flash the lights for you
 
thanks for the tip moderator, but i know english well enough. that was pretty insulting what u said. this is why i didnt join gtp forums earlier, to much silly rules, i am pretty sure most ppl can read the post, but am sorry for double posting. this isnt english class here :-/
 
Whats so hard in writing "you" instead of "u", if you dont want to follow the rules why do you post here anyway?
 
frank-jaeger
We can count on weather to be in for sure,as for night/day cycle we still don't have any idea !
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I really hope you are right on that!

Racing in the rain - be it during a dark and overcast thunderstorm during the day - or a thunderstorm at night - that would be incredible!

I hope for Dynamic Weather and day/night changes. If Grand Theft Auto and Fuel can create huge open worlds with both of those features - Polyphony Digital can do it even better. ;)

EDIT: Maybe a setting that allows the game to set the time of day based on the internal PS3 clock?
 
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