Weather [Rain]

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TheeFrogmanlego
Rain on the window looked good... now snow looked like pixilated junk..
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Check out a rain video of Colin McRae rally 3 or 2005 on YouTube, I reckon the rain effect looks a lot better. The windscreen actually looks wet and there's no weird giant rain drops out the side window like in GT5
 
CarreraGT
Check out a rain video of Colin McRae rally 3 or 2005 on YouTube, I reckon the rain effect looks a lot better. The windscreen actually looks wet and there's no weird giant rain drops out the side window like in GT5
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I agree - those are some fine looking rain effects! I hope rain is improved in GT6.
 
Griffith500
Unless you're going to use a static, tiled image, I'd suspect the texture memory required to do that is too much for the way GT games have been made on PS3. The small areas that do have droplets, i.e. the windows only, have insufficient resolution still, in my opinion. Plus I don't think that the "physics" applied to the droplets would scale to the whole car.

Obviously it'd be nice, but I've always thought the perfect little globules of water stuck to the surface of a vehicle moving at high speed just looked a little off.
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Then how did games like DiRT 3 make the drops?
 
Anyone noticed this

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Weather: Variable

Snow maybe?
 
Black Chamber
I think maybe they haven't shown it yet because they want us to be blown away with how vastly improved it is over GT5! [wishful thinking]👍
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Well there was the footage of tire smoke from GT6 recently on here and you can see the improvement over 5 in that field and the vid wasn't PD released so you never know!

https://www.gtplanet.net/gt6-drifting-gameplay-video-alfa-romeo-tz3-stradale/

Kudos to the guy drifting I can't remember too many shots of no smoke, impressive!
 
in GT5 is just Weather Change, not "Variable" if I know right. And when is there more "options" to "type of weather", there could be also only "Rain" or "Snow" etc.. Just my oppinion and maybe wishful thinking :D
 
syntex123
But hey, you're forgetting one thing. "Real-time weather". If it snows IRL, it should snow in-game. Right?


I hope so.
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Real time would suggest it happens based on real time. Otherwise it would be real life weather conditions not real time.
 
Real time weather is of course going to have some limitations, chances are some weather conditions such as fog, thunderstorms, hail etc aren't going to be included, probably, so I doubt real time weather means snow has been modelled on GT6's tracks.
 
play3man
So, in real life also snow, no?
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Yes. He quoted the bit saying real-time weather. Which means it will happen in real time, cloud build up and wet track build up etc. It doesn't say real life weather.

Real-time weather does not mean snow in any way shape or form.
 
You propably don't know what I mean. In GT5 it is just "Change Weather"

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And in GT6 it is "Weather: Variable"

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And my point is, that there could be another "versions of weather change". Like Weather: Rain or Weather: Snow. This is just really big speculation and maybe wishful thinking, nothing more... I don't want to fight what they really mean with some types of words, this is just something what I noticed and want to share possible "chance to see snow on some real race track"
 
MildAshers
Real time would suggest it happens based on real time. Otherwise it would be real life weather conditions not real time.
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Exactly

MildAshers
Yes. He quoted the bit saying real-time weather. Which means it will happen in real time, cloud build up and wet track build up etc. It doesn't say real life weather.

Real-time weather does not mean snow in any way shape or form.
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It most certainly does. If it snows at Nurb, and you select real-time weather, of course it would snow!
 
Black Chamber
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Yes yes yes. Say what you want about PGR being arcadey and not a real simulation (and it wasn't). But the weather effects in PGR 4 were some of the best I've ever seen. Driving the Nordschliefe in the snow was magical. When weather is sort of half-assed like it was in GT5, it tends to be irrelevant. But when executed well it can make a huge difference. It's a shame about Bizarre and the death of the franchise, it had so much going for it. PGR 2 in particular is still one of my all-time favorite games.
 
syntex123
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It most certainly does. If it snows at Nurb, and you select real-time weather, of course it would snow!
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I see what you're trying to say now. You're saying that the game will recreate the weather and time of day of that location as it happens. Nowhere and at no point does it ever say it does that. The website states variable weather which doesn't even confirm rain never-mind snow.

Everyone is setting themselves up for serious disappointment.
 
MildAshers
I see what you're trying to say now. You're saying that the game will recreate the weather and time of day of that location as it happens. Nowhere and at no point does it ever say it does that. The website states variable weather which doesn't even confirm rain never-mind snow.

Everyone is setting themselves up for serious disappointment.
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Then how come several threads are talking about real-time weather? And I'm pretty sure I remember reading that as well
 
Because you don't understand real-time weather for starters. And because someone talks about it that means its a thing?
 
syntex123
Then how come several threads are talking about real-time weather? And I'm pretty sure I remember reading that as well
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When you see "real-time weather," it's referring to the idea that environments will change weather patterns on-the-fly, that weather will adapt and change in real-time during gameplay. Conditions aren't static and "baked" into the course model. It has nothing to do with replicating actual weather conditions as they happen in real life.
 
Tiger woods has 'real time weather' and it's replicating the actual weather conditions in the world at the specific golf course you play. I believe some flight sims have this too. The general term they use for this is 'real time weather'
 
glassjaw
When you see "real-time weather," it's referring to the idea that environments will change weather patterns on-the-fly, that weather will adapt and change in real-time during gameplay. Conditions aren't static and "baked" into the course model. It has nothing to do with replicating actual weather conditions as they happen in real life.
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*Rising an eyebrow* Ahaa, that makes sense. Too bad many of us made the same mistake as I did. Maybe because it's wishful thinking. :lol:

Pilitev
Tiger woods has 'real time weather' and it's replicating the actual weather conditions in the world at the specific golf course you play. I believe some flight sims have this too. The general term they use for this is 'real time weather'
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Yeah that's what I first thought too. All Microsoft Flight Sims have this. 👍
 
Never mind the link, this is from the tiger woods 14 website:

"Dynamic Weather Conditions— Powered by the Weather Channel, real-time weather now has a major effect on gameplay conditions. If it’s raining in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, then you too can face the challenge of a rain-soaked TPC Sawgrass."
 
ed24
Real time weather is of course going to have some limitations, chances are some weather conditions such as fog, thunderstorms, hail etc aren't going to be included, probably, so I doubt real time weather means snow has been modelled on GT6's tracks.
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How about the fact that rain isn't just there at once.

I REALLY(!!) hope that the rain is moving over the circuit, so you can have a dry part and a wet part!
Think about it, it happens during pretty much every rain race irl, there first is rain on one part of the track, then over the complete track.
 

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