The graphics are the same whether you are in a replay or racing in real time, are they not? The only difference with enabling the photo mode is you can choose where the camera is and mess with the depth of field, it doesn't add any fancy effects or filters, but you can do that on the fly with another program if you want to. SweetFX mods will do the same sort of thing.
Yes, details are missing or could be better, but like you say, not only is this still in development, but the team making this is tiny, and so is their budget. Kunos started off as just one person, before it became a few people. Other games out there have hundreds of people and computers working on them, with millions of dollars to throw at it, and in cases like Forza, despite having a huge development team already, also outsource a lot of the work so there is even less for each individual to do.
While I understand your concern about an unfinished project, it sounds like you're expecting the Kunos team to do the work of 20-50 people each.
Knew this would happen.
If you read page 2 you'll see I'm well aware what Kunos is, I own Netkar, know its a small team and have explained this to people already who expect something better on PC.
The main gripe for some is how AC looks when driving or the environments. Not that replay enhance anything, no one ever said that. Posting pics of cars gives a false impression, the cars look good but no way will you ever play a game in this view. Plus I already have said the cars look good so again these type of pics won't prove to me otherwise.
Have you checked the photo thread?
This is one of my pics in there.
This is graphically impressive to me but it no way represents what the game looks like when playing whether this is in game or not. This is a major improvement over netkar and I as a long fan of Kunos can appreciate it.
My point is not the graphics, its the frame rate. You've got the wrong end of the stick.
I play LFS and many other games. They're all poor graphically, its what PC sims have been about in case you're new to sim racing. I have no problem with small dev teams and low graphics. What all these pc sim titles over the years have shared is they're easy to run.
GTX 780ti, super sample is a joke to the average sim player. The average iracing rfactor lfs netkar player doesn't care for these images. it's how it performs when driving, the image quality, jaggies, shimering and things like anisotropic filtering.
AC has a deferred render, its resource heavy and very hard to get a clean image without chucking a ton of hardware at it. Supersample on already demanding games is suicide except for bullshots and no way a solution for pc sim players. Please search what supersample does if you don't know. This render type gives better lighting but if Kunos can't utilize it outside some car models I wonder if its best to actually use it. There's been many good looking games that don't use it.
At the moment the cars look great from these angles but have no bearing when playing.
To claify I know its beta, I've already said about optimzations on page two amonst many other things that can improve the situation.
If they can add more as time goes on and are shooting for a graphically good all round game then fine. I have no probs with a decent looking game requiring some high end hardware, a clear direction. If it looks no better or not much better than every sim in the last decade when driving I question the need for such hardware/direction. I expect Kunos to do a decent job over time as I said on page two at the end, we'll have to see what this small team can do outside of the cars. What I see so far isn't good, I hope they can improve for their own sakes. Some are coming into AC new, they see some nice car shots, some licenses or see a youtube video, download the game, only to find out it looks very basic, like an old pc sim title they have no interest in, below what they see on 8 year old consoles. netkar players can't get a good image or 60fps without a second mortgage so nobody wins.
Just to add, I have no strong feeling over AC graphics despite a longish post, I'm not demanding this or that, my initial clear post was short but unsurprisingly quoted. If you play LFS or netkar you'll know just having one Ferrari is mind blowing enough. I'm very happy with AC.
These images people reply mean nothing to my point. Nor does chuck some super sample on it, "erm yeah I would if I had a 780ti"
We haven't even got into triple screens yet. 1080p is 780ti worthy right now.
Also with Oculus support, we might need 85hz or even 120hz if you hear what oculus say. Image quality is paramount, so is frame rate. It can't be a shimmering jagg fest but looks pretty in ideal screenshots in free cam or you need 2 titan z to run it at 85 fps with a clean image.
but stating that GT6 graphic is better than AC graphic, that is just hilarious, trying to prove it watching videos on You tube that is something else.
it's hard to explain, also when the AI exhaust spits flames out there not random length of time so all the cars in the grid look fake instantly, I find it much more difficult spotting my braking points as I tend to focus on the turn and judge the distance( this is probably a terrible way to do it) but I can often not see the bend my mind is specifically focussing on Monza first corner find it easy to see the curb on GT6 but not on AC. I am now using a marker on the left but u just feel in this day and age I should be able to make out them small details (yes resolution is 1080) sorry for all the disclaimers but I want to avoid the stupid questions.
