Night Sky

[BetelgeuzeFIN]

Are you people able to actually find recognizeable objects (stars and planets) on the games night skies?

I’ve been trying to watch the sky and find some familiar stars and planets there. I can pretty easily go out in the real world during night and recognize most of the constellations and planets on the real sky but the sky of the game confuses me.

There are some stars visible but maybe their relative brightnesses are not exactly well modeled. Mount Panorama would have maybe the best conditions as it becomes totally sark but southern sky is a bit unfamiliar for me.

 

[Islaygaz]

On the Spa 1hr endurance when you are on the kemmel straight you can see Orion

 

[BetelgeuzeFIN]

On the Spa 1hr endurance when you are on the kemmel straight you can see Orion

Hmmm…I wonder if it is possible to create that condition in custom race. That’s a very good starting point. 👍

 

[OJBrit]

Are you people able to actually find recognizeable objects (stars and planets) on the games night skies?

I’ve been trying to watch the sky and find some familiar stars and planets there. I can pretty easily go out in the real world during night and recognize most of the constellations and planets on the real sky but the sky of the game confuses me.

There are some stars visible but maybe their relative brightnesses are not exactly well modeled. Mount Panorama would have maybe the best conditions as it becomes totally sark but southern sky is a bit unfamiliar for me.

PD mostly do a good job with this. If you had the time to look whilst hurtling along at 200mph+ then you should be able to see something. I know the Bathurst sky had the 2 Megellanic clouds (the 2 satellite galaxies to the Milky Way) in GTS. I assume they carried over.

 

[GT5 Level 41]

It's nice, maybe too much attention to the small details, not enough attention to actual racing events that payout. Not that I'm complaining or anything (sar). Just saying a bump in payouts for custom races would be appreciated.

 

[Monkey Man]

My buddy spotted quite a few iconic stars at Bathurst, so it's definitely a thing.

 

[Talon16]

Nope.

 

[sanrensho]

If you use averted vision you can almost see uranus.

 

[AutumnalGlow]

Considering how much they bragged about the accurate star placement before release, I'd sure hope so. Unfortunately it turns out I'm a bit too focused on driving to look at the stars.

 

[BetelgeuzeFIN]

Spa had indeed a proper sky model at least. Just needed to set fast time advance speed and sky dynamically changed.