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About rims reflecting the sky where it shouldn't... maybe they need a separate shader.

Maybe Global Illumination would be the "easy" but performance costing answer here rather than separate shaders?

Bloom is looking very good and not overly done.

Edited shot (1st image) - it would be nice if we can have a real-time road reflections too. Or just a static reflection of the road.

EDIT: Added a comparison of the dynamic reflection options in BeamNG from left to right (turned off, high quality and low quality).
And if possible to have a working mirror visible from the chase and TV / free mode camera (currently only visible in car view in LFS - 2nd image, the 3rd image is from the free camera in BeamNG):

Sorry for the double post.

Quote from Scawen :

...and when the sun itself is seen, flickering in and out of brightness behind some trees.

Quote from Evolution_R :

Sorry for the double post.

Probably very irelevant question, but it got me so confused I have to ask - does the FZ5 have differently sized front and rear wheels (diameter-wise)? - In the video they appear to rotate at different speed (wheel rims get synchronised with the camera framerate at different velocity)

Sorry for off topic post.

Quote from Evolution_R :

Added a comparison of the dynamic reflection options in BeamNG from left to right (turned off, high quality and low quality).

May I say I am not impressed by these images? BeamNG is also at least DirectX 10.1 (they say 11 themselves), not sure if they make use of these library extensions concerning reflections as I have no idea what the differences exactly are but LFS stays at 9. And that will be fine, I guess.

hello why not allow the modding of cars not the community? (which you will have chosen and validated?) that could help you? there are pretty good 3d artists, what do you think of the cars that we see in the showcase videos with lots of nice car models in LFS?
this is a simple question, i think no aml of anybody would like to help you in this wonderful project

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May I say I am not impressed by these images?

They are not very impressive, yes, thats why i said earlier the new graphics of LFS will be better looking overall than the BeamNG and it would be nice if LFS gets full dynamic reflections too (at some point).

@michal 1279, FZ50: 235/40 R18 front, 295/30 R18 rear

Quote from Evolution_R :

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@michal 1279, FZ50: 235/40 R18 front, 295/30 R18 rear

weird : 911 gt3 996 phase 1 was 225/40/R18 and 285/30/R18 for 360hp (like FZ50), while the GT3 phase 2 was 235/40/R18 and 295/30/R18 with 381hp ... where are the missing 21hp ?
And by the way : why FZ50 ?

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Probably very irelevant question, but it got me so confused I have to ask - does the FZ5 have differently sized front and rear wheels (diameter-wise)? - In the video they appear to rotate at different speed (wheel rims get synchronised with the camera framerate at different velocity)

Sorry for off topic post.

Doesn't that happen because the driven wheels (in this case the rears) are always going to spin with a certain velocity no matter what, while the front non driven ones just take more to spin at the same speed ? I don't know if what i typed here has some sense lol

Quote from Scawen :

Yes, the CPU sky is for:
- ambient lighting spherical harmonic (for directional ambient lighting)
- maximum brightness value (needed before the GPU sky is generated - see below)
- average sky colour (I'm trying to move away from any uses of this)

The GPU sky can still be stored as a 32-bit SRGB texture, doesn't need to be 64-bit HDR if I know the maximum value (from the CPU) before it is generated on the GPU. Each pixel is then multiplied by (1.0 / max_brightness) so the sky uses the full 24-bit range of colours.

Good way to improve memory bandwith

Quote from Scawen :

I'd sometimes like to be able to generate things on the GPU and read the texture back into system memory for analysis by the program [...]
But I think this is a limitation with DX9 so I've avoided using that in real time situations.

Yep, but you can read data from the GPU asynchronously with DX11. And you also don't have compute shader or HLSL 5.0 so you'll be really limited for path tracing anyways


Sorry for the late reply

Sunrise at Kyoto

Its beautiful!

Great!

Looks great

Oh,look at that - the new Kyoto has also sausage curbs...

Quote from Scawen :

Sunrise at Kyoto

sexy !

A picture worth a thousand words

Quote from Scawen :

Sunrise at Kyoto

Beautiful!!!!

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Oh,look at that - the new Kyoto has also sausage curbs...

Oh come on... you know that place cutting massively....

That looks very impressive. Though I think it starts to look like the car models are now the one's being behind in terms of appearance. Tracks will look amazing, cars will look like, well, not kinda matching up.

I think there are few (or just one for now) new car models waiting for us and will be released as a surprise with the update!

I do not understand the surprise belief what some members throughout the years bring up. There where never 'surprises', every release was a release what was being discussed in the months before. Lets keep it that way, surprise expectations only lead to disappointments/negativism which is unnecessary. Jesus is coming, some day.

Yeah, you have a right, but my expectations are not unrealistic, like 100 official licensed cars or 50 new tracks. If the new physics are ready for release the realistic expectation is to get the Volkswagen Scirocco with it. But then again this wouldn't be a surprise... I shouldn't have posted.

Amazing!

Forza Scawen!

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Sunrise at Kyoto

maybe can have clouds like this?