GT4 BMW Series 1 Virtual Drive is OUT!!!

[shirakawaa]

The Nuerburgring video I was downloading stopped at 50%... server overload I guess.

I've managed to watch the unfinished part though... But Amar! With diesel engines you don't need to shift gears at those high rpms (over 5000 rpms) since power decreases very quickly after its peak (for the 120d, 4000 rpms). And there's no need to worry for low revs power, since modern turbodiesels (including the bmw 2.0) have plenty of low-end torque. In real life, turbodiesel engines can be seriously damaged by overrevving, because the diesel fuel burning process is much more violent than petrol ignition. 5500 rpms (like in the video) or more could be fatal. Most europan diesel cars have the rev limiter set not much beyond peak power. The BMW in game seems to go much further than that! I don't know if the real version does/will do, too.

Oh, by the way, in game the turbo gauge is missing, weird.

 

[Robin]

I think it got cut because GTPlanet went down for like a minute......my download got cut aswell.......

 

[T5-R]

Hope mine doesn't get cut @ 24% of Diesel 'Ring vid

 

[Robin]

I decided to leave that one till tomorrow to download...I don't want to wait all night......the other vids are amazing...I'm looking foreward to seeing the new build of NY........

Goodnight! ZZZZZZZZzzzzzz

 

[Mr P510]

I get sound but no picture using windows media player 9. Comes up....error downloading codec, anyone know how to solve this? Tried two videos with same problem.

 

[usernamed]

The videos work just fine with VLC. The quality is excellent, it's really not looking like a ps2 game 👍

You really did a nice job driving Amar. You can tell the physics have had a massive change. If you look at the Amalfi in-car replay, when approaching a corner, Amar doesn't immediately jump on the brakes (since the car will probably lockup and spin out of control.). Instead he taps the brake until he reaches a lower speed to then go into the corner and accelarate away.

Can't wait to see those NY replays!

 

[Egghead]

Thanks for the Vids and a 👍 for the server. Downloaded all the movies with good speeds.

 

[ALPHA]

Jordan, when I clicked the links in Firefox, it opened the video on a new page with the quicktime plugin and provided a direct link to the videos. This I don't think is what was intended but now leechers will be able to leech onto the files.

Last month when I downloaded the first of amar's videos it would bring the download up in the download manager as it should do. Nothing on my system has been changed except the 0.9.3 Firefox update. Just letting you know the download system address protection has been broken.

 

[redhed17]

Is anyone having trouble downloading the collision video?

It's supposed to be 136Mb, but I've only downloaded 19.4Mb, which obviously doesn't work. I deleted the downloaded file from my folder, and then from my recycle bin and tried again. It starts for a second and says finished, 19.4Mb downloaded, do I want to open. The 19.4 Mb file says it is in my folder after a second. How can it load 19.4 Mb in one second? It must be getting the information from the recycle bin, but I emtied it.

So I'm stuck in a loop. If I try to download, it says it is done after 1 second, but only shows 19.4Mb. The 1st time I downloaded, it took the right amount of time dowloading that amount over a 512Kb connection.

Anyone know what's going wrong?

 

[Solid Lifters]

Is anyone having trouble downloading the collision video?

It's supposed to be 136Mb, but I've only downloaded 19.4Mb, which obviously doesn't work. I deleted the downloaded file from my folder, and then from my recycle bin and tried again. It starts for a second and says finished, 19.4Mb downloaded, do I want to open. The 19.4 Mb file says it is in my folder after a second. How can it load 19.4 Mb in one second? It must be getting the information from the recycle bin, but I emtied it.

So I'm stuck in a loop. If I try to download, it says it is done after 1 second, but only shows 19.4Mb. The 1st time I downloaded, it took the right amount of time dowloading that amount over a 512Kb connection.

Anyone know what's going wrong?

I'm downloading it now, and so far so good. I'm at 96kb, so the problem is on your end.

 

[Egghead]

Is anyone having trouble downloading the collision video?

It's supposed to be 136Mb, but I've only downloaded 19.4Mb, which obviously doesn't work. I deleted the downloaded file from my folder, and then from my recycle bin and tried again. It starts for a second and says finished, 19.4Mb downloaded, do I want to open. The 19.4 Mb file says it is in my folder after a second. How can it load 19.4 Mb in one second? It must be getting the information from the recycle bin, but I emtied it.

So I'm stuck in a loop. If I try to download, it says it is done after 1 second, but only shows 19.4Mb. The 1st time I downloaded, it took the right amount of time dowloading that amount over a 512Kb connection.

Anyone know what's going wrong?

Empty your Temporary Internet files

 

[livemusic]

I´ve dowloaded the Amalfi video, from in car. The video quality is much better then the first Nurburgring video. Thanks amar. I´m looking forward for the NY video.

 

[TriplePlay]

A few captures.......

 

[Spacemaniac_hr]

This morning (in Croatia offcourse) I had privilege to see unfinished (in progress) comparision New York video that amar212 is doing for us. Right now it's been rendered and in compression process for friendly format viewing. It looks really amazing (you'll notice the extra-wide screen picture in excellent quality).
P.S. Amar, the time folding is amazingly done. Excellent job! 👍

 

[Robin]

Morning Everybody!!!!

Really Amar..........these vids are amazing!!! 👍 The de-interlacing makes them look like something PD would release as an offical vid! From what Ive seen GT4 looks even more graphically amazing...if you look carefully at the start as the camera pan's infront of the 120i you can see the reflection off the zeon frosted bulbs and the glass inside the headlight cluster!!! but its only of a second .....basically, the reflections models great thats how detailed PD what to make it!!!!

I only have like a little annoyace with PD....I wish that they could make the spectators move more, and in different ways (not just the shaking hand way in Prologue). But thats nothing......GT4 is gonna rock!

Can't wait to see NY!!!!!

Cheers soooooo much!!!

Robin

 

[Robin]

You can see in the first pic, what I mean about the headlight reflection effect......its nothing too 'big deal'.......but it just shows the advancement from GT3 where the lights were quite blocky and didnt show high detial of the individual clusters.....

 

[Robin]

Here's a tour of Capri, in pictures for all 56k or slow connection people.......I tried to get the best bits of this amazing vid! 👍 The redering of everything, including the trees looking very good for PS2 graphics....

 

[Robin]

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[GTXLR]

What did you think about the crowd noise?

 

[ALPHA]

Excellent captures you've got there! Amalfi is shaping up to be one awesome circuit!

 

[Robin]

Thanks 👍 ......I may do some more of the collision vid......and NY when it comes out!!!

What did you think about the crowd noise?

I thought it was ok.....it could be more varied (like alot more shouting and maybe words like GO GO GO!!) Also it should fade in an out with distance, not just stop......but i do think background noise is needed and that it what PD have done quite well! I really can't fault the work that they have done considering that its the PS2 platform!

 

[Robin]

Ok.......I thought I might as well do the collision vid screen captures, here is a concise look at what happens when you slam into a wall at over 70 mph!! You can see how dizzy you are going to be!!! also you car becomes slighty incompasitated when you hit a wall hard...you wheels will lock up to simulate loss of control...it reminds me of what happened when you broke through a road block in NFS HP2. I have also only now noticed that the 1 series has a normal german number plate...this could mean that maybe you will be able to change between a showroom plate (like seen in GT3) or a road plate!!!! lets hope! I think that 1 series looks quite cool in red......but I really want to see it in black.....anyway here are the screen captures.....

Thanks again loads to everyone involved......

 

[Robin]

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[Tacet_Blue]

Citta di Aria was my favourite track in Prologue, and I'm loving the look of Amalfi 👍
When the car passes by the buildings that are casting shadows on the road, the car is immersed in shadow, and you can actually see the line of the shadow pass across the car...very pretty

The crowd sounds are a bit cheesey but they do add a bit to the "yeah I'm driving great" feeling. Some boo's or some laughter when you mess up would be good

 

[Vette_Drift]

Nice captures robin 👍

I hope the road mapping will be available for all tracks...especially for speed courses..

otherwise it would just be plain boring to just be doing 200mph on a straight without feeling some bit of uneveness on the road...the sense of speed is lost there

which is why when driving the nurb makes you feel like your actually doing a 140kmh... plus the wind noise is greatly improved

 

[ALPHA]

The images of Costa Di Amalfi have me stumped. The buildings appear to have lost their origianl vibrant textures.

If you look at this:

then this:

followed by this capture from the Prologue ending movie:

You can see the front buildings have had their colours removed, strange, huh?

The only place some colour can be seen is:

But there is this:

Where it should look something like:

Although the last image is further up the track before the S-bend you can see a definate lapse of colour.

EDIT: I just had a look at the PAL Prologue ending and it has changed since the Asian Prologue ending. The buildings look as plain as these ones. I feel cheated, I was looking foward to those bright coloured buildings!

 

[Pak]

ALPHA, I noticed it looked very bland and grey too. Hmm.. why would PD do that?

 

[Robin]

Do you maybe think that the one series demo was built on new physics but an old capri model???......I can see how the building have lost there colour......its odd, and rather bad......there are really olny two explainations.......1. the buildings have been painted white in real life reciently thus making PD change them ingame......or 2. The BMW demo has an old version of capri......other than that I would doubt that the colours would not be in there.......maybe its a building licence issue...........

any thoughts?

EDIT:.......I have now realised that me and Alpha are blind!

 

[ALPHA]

ALPHA, I noticed it looked very bland and grey too. Hmm.. why would PD do that?

I just realised, I had made a major error. The coloured houses on the waterfront are further up before the start/finish line. The bland houses are the ones further along.

Some of the other bland buildings are supposed to be bland. So PD hasn't changed anything between the Prologue ending movies. I just made a major error. The one true thing is that some of the buildings look very dingy.

If you look at

Where the persons head is, is actually where the pier/wharf is and the start finish line just is infront of it.

Look here:

The red building with the arches down the bottom is partly concealed by a grandstand. Look closely at the video and you'll see the coloured buildings are there.

And here:

The buildings in the center the yellow + white ones fit the shape and look similar to those in the photo with the persons head. Odd because you can't see those buildings from the waterfront.

 

[T5-R]

Nice vids Watched diesel 'Ring vid & Costa replay so far, collision vid messed up but downloading again.

Hmm I know that modern diesels are better & sound more refined, but that BMW didn't sound much like a diesel at all. I passed my test in a 2003 diesel clio & despite not sounding as bad as old diesels, you could still tell it was a diesel just by the sound. Doesn't seem like you can in GT, still perhaps thats what BMW wanted.

I'm not sure whether I've been spoilt by Doom 3, RSC2 even GT : P, but GT4s graphics aren't looking as impressive as they once did