Underbody detail

[Sven]

Next time you play Prologue, take a close look at the McLaren's rims. It's basically that the texture is curved around a transparent survace. So the rim doesn't have any measurable depth, but it has texture and a shape.

It works really well though. When you see the McLaren go around a corner, you can see how the center bolt of the wheel sticks out.

I'll have to take a closer look at those wheels you're talking about...

 

[Bonsai]

Quote: ...How can you bend a texture onto something to give the illusion of depth without actually creating depth?

Normal mapping. Though the PS2 has no normal mapping capability ...

Otherwise one can achieve a decent depth illusion with a clever bump map, though even the best bump map will never be able to replace geometry ....

 

[GT-One Lover]

......i agree....just a more or less SIMPLE UNDERBODY constriction to make us PERFECTIONISTS happy......i want REVERSE LIGHTS and FIRE COMING OUT OF THE EXHAUSTES on GT4 ,too!!! (PD pleaseeee!!!)

.....underbody would be nice but i don´t think PD spends ANY TIME for this revolutionary and very COMPLEX underbody construction of the TOYOTA GT-One!!!