Using low poly and low detail crowds is still very common in racing games. I doubt they will be that much better in Driveclub. They're meant to be seen from a distance only.
The ones in driveclub use more polygons than cars in PCars!1 And have sub surface scattering and every single human is different. One eye ball in DC crowd member has more polys than these crouds. OUCH!1
They actually use realtime ray tracing to acurately simulate the reflections in the eyeballs of the people in the crowd, as well as tressFX to simulate realistic hair movement. The game drops to 1 frame per minute each time you pass a crowd, but it's worth it
Tress-fucking-FX? You srsly? More like each individual hair is rendered by the GPU with no fucking hardware chip. Pure GPU rendering with each hair reflecting light accurately and has their own collision detection and physics. That is, every crowd member. There are also volumetric pores made of real hand modeled polygons in everybodies skin. So in short, each crowd character contains more detail than the whole of DriveClub.
BTW they have since optimized it.. It now runs 1 frame per 48 seconds :)
That's mighty impressive. I also heard they're planning to give each NPC in the crowd a radiant AI, that means that each invidual has to eat, drink and sleep and everyone has their own house that they return to at certain points.
And 0.02 fps now? That's intensely cinematic, they really know what they're doing.
Reading-Rainbow Vs. Mems the match of the century, holy crap im grabbing dem popcorns. :P
I'm just curious how observing the shitty peds requires me to slow the game to a crawl. Spatial awareness just isn't a strong area for lemmings it seems.
@ShutUpFanboys: The game looks amazing no doubt. System Wars, more than most boards, is Cow heavy so this is to be expected. I know people claim neogaf is real slanted but it's much more neutral than this place. The thread these crowd shots were pulled from also shows some great looking shots from photo mode. We won't see those here however. They make an Xbox One game look good and System Wars can't have that.
@Chutebox: lol yeah, actually I was just trying to say that the game has proven it has great gameplay, so anything extra like photo mode is just a bonus, and this is the best I've seen yet, though I'm sure DC and PC will look spectacular as well.
Dude get the off the Xbox One's nuts.....it's a bit obsessive.
Jealousy is mean bitch!
Indeed....especially when every review touts it's visuals. Any game can be picked apart and whoever spent their time doing this is sad.
touts its visuals bahahahHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
LOOK AT THOSE PICS LOOK AT THEM BAHAHAH
REALLY A BENCHMARK
DON'T TELL THOSE GIRLS WEAR GLASSES HAHAHAHA
You are a F***ing idiot, the rest of the game looks fantastic and you have the Nerve to claim it's graphically rubbish based on one Tiny , Tiny aspect of the game and it's graphics.
So if somebody finds a tiny aspect of the graphics on DC that doesn't quite match up to Par then that game will be graphically rubbish right?
GT5 must have been graphically Crap with those Ps2 Car models right?
Yes because I'm sure people are going to stop to take pictures of the crowd. Next you'll probably suggest that games shouldn't use LoDing because that's cheating and is just making up for weak hardware.
come on man, this is just out of this world unacceptable!
No. Not at all. Stop being ignorant of basics of LoDing. Real time graphics, even on the most powerful of PCs, are nothing but tricks to make it look good. Remove detail from unimportant objects that are not the focus and put it on the focus. This is standard practices, this is exactly what is accepted and what has been accepted for the past 30 years. You can't change that.
I'm pretty sure FH2 will turn out to be a solid game. The franchise has always been pretty good. I must ask you, TC, why would you pick out something like this in a racing game? Are you really so petty that you'd pick apart literally the least important aspect?
This really poor thread has run its course. The game is fantastic and generally reviewed as such. To try and discredit it by searching through the crowd to try and find poor graphics shows a pathetic attempt at damage control TC.
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