Well, however they do it, someone mentioned the Prologue credits listed 31 car modelers. That is still 31 cars at a time, 62 in a year if each person starts one and finishes six months later.
You're looking at Kaz's timeframes too literally.
Sure, it may take a car 6 months to complete start to finish, or a track may take two years. However, I can almost guarantee that someone isn't working on that specific car for 6 months straight.
Some of us were expecting that timeframe to shrink a bit in later interviews, but Kaz is still talking about each car taking six months to model to this day.
How this process works specifically is a mystery. FoolKiller's assembly line could be the method. There could be masters of tires, wheels and brake structures, dashes, seats, engines, etc. They work on one basic element of a car, and when finished, send the model data to the next person in the line.
But it's also just as likely that each modeler is assigned a list of cars to create from scratch. This person would get to know one car inside and out at a time, and spend up to six months matching polygons to real world precision measurements. Or they could do a few at a time to take an emotional breather from a job which is getting tedious. I have noted that many desks have a few specific car models on them, and many of them dismantled to reveal the interiors. Remember that they're modeling the guts under the hood and skin also.
However the process works, I hope there's a video done on GTTV detailing this, or a Blu-ray included with the games. A history of Gran Turismo, giving us a peek behind the curtain to the incredible ordeal these awesome folk have been enduring for the past five plus years.
I have to agree with you Tenacious... The PS3 is & was a far more open architecture than the XBox 360. Microsoft are still trying to profit from all their 120GB & 250GB HDD's today. With a PS3, you can go and buy any suitable OEM part for much less money. That's a good thing seeing as KY has stated GT5 will warrant a 10GB install to deliver the best experience. There'll definitely be some 20GB PS3 owners out there, somewhere...
Sony engages and partners with many companies, obviously to make money, but Sony does not go all out to pay for exclusivity. Not these days. All these exclusive franchises appearing on PS3 today are made by Sony owned developers.
In fact, I have a 320GB drive I bought last week, but am waiting for a long window of time as I doubt installing the thing will be a 30 minute process. Could be wrong though. However, I'm way chuffed that Ken Kutaragi, that mad scientist, was so forward thinking that he gave us off the shelf options for our PS3's, and built in so much capability. I spent half what it would cost to get a new 360 250GB drive.
And I'm also pleased at the PS3 developer community, between SONY and their partners sharing technology freely between them to make all their games even better. Very non-monopoly thinking.
Isn't there supposed to be some magazine with a hands on, that released on the 30th of september?
It was, but it was just two pages of the
GamesCom event, old news sadly. Print mags going over details of GT5 itself will have to wait for the end of October, though online goodies will begin popping up over the next few weeks.
So, if you don't want any spoilers, be careful what you click on.
