Rain & Snow in Gran Turismo 5 - [UPDATED] finally, officially confirmed!!!!!
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For every decent looking one there's one that looks like a Chinese knock-off. Notably non-functioning gauges and dials, poor driving position, the infamous crab-hands of death, questionably shifting animation, low-resolution textures and generally not nearly enough detail.
There are some decent ones, don't get me wrong. But already the best interior view of any game out there was the Racing Citroen GT on Trial Mountain, so much detail, quality animations, decent resolution shadows (no 'jaggies'). That's the new benchmark.
Might as well drive like you stole it, considering how much money he must have had to buy one of those. And I suppose someone's gotta keep those insurance companies afloat.
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- Florida, USA
I believe cars will be limited on what tracks they can drive on by what tires they can use, much as it was in GT4. You couldn't purchase snow or dirt tires for race cars & specialty cars.
I believe this will most likely be the case in GT5 also. Suspect you won't see a Toyota GT-One on the snowy streets on New York as with PGR.
I believe this will most likely be the case in GT5 also. Suspect you won't see a Toyota GT-One on the snowy streets on New York as with PGR.
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As far as what specific tracks should have dynamic weather, the Nürburgring is at the top of the list for me.
I would like to see rain and snow on the Nürburgring - not at the same time or anything, but it definitely needs to rain and snow there! 👍
I would like to see rain and snow on the Nürburgring - not at the same time or anything, but it definitely needs to rain and snow there! 👍
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- JMarine25
[A very famous motorsports journalist and announcer who happens to be one of my Facebook friends] had a picture sent to him of Spa-Francorchamps getting snowed over. One picture was called "Snow Rouge," whereas Eau Rouge was snowed over. I remember a few ovals here in the United States where qualifying was canceled due to snow. So it happens. I obviously don't live in Germany, so I don't know if it would ever snow there. I'm already terrible at the 'Ring, so I don't even want to fathom racing this purgatory on anything other than dry roads.
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i would love to see snow in nurburgring. 
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I hope snow wont be in 24h race
but the weather will change throughout the race.
so it would be nice to see it during endurance race.
i wonder if the roads will freeze.. and become icy 👍
Yes, but I think Snow will be off for Endurance race.
Hmm icy sounds cool, like an early cold December morning after raining all night.
Something tells me that will be in GT6. Also I do not relay want to race in ICY weather.
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So that is true in real life, cold will have less traction over the hot surface. But cold weather will have better performance on engines over hot weather. I wonder if engine performance will be affected in gt5 because of that.
What does humidity do exactly to the car or traction? Anyone knows?
Hmm icy sounds cool, like an early cold December morning after raining all night.
Something tells me that will be in GT6. Also I do not relay want to race in ICY weather.
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So that is true in real life, cold will have less traction over the hot surface. But cold weather will have better performance on engines over hot weather. I wonder if engine performance will be affected in gt5 because of that.
What does humidity do exactly to the car or traction? Anyone knows?
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- trk29
I wonder how the tire choice will effect your race during weather. I mean if everybody puts on slicks and then it starts to rain I wonder if the game will force everyone to pit to change tires or if you will even be able to pit. Thinking of Eiger (because of the recent videos)it has no pits so are we going to have to just drive slower with our slicks? Or is the new part of this track going to be a longer course or is that going to be the pit area, the only thing is the new part of Eiger looks to be gravel to me.
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- Croatia
Mountain in the Northern-central Europe. You can bet your mortgage it snows there
http://noolmusic.com/google_videos/nurburgring_nordschleife_porsche_911_in_the_snow_walter_rhrl_.php
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- geomil21
- pillz4thrillz
I can only guess that with alot of humidity, possibly fog... Also Humidity has an amplifies air temperature. There were times when 88 degrees felt like 105.
As for Nürburgring, yes it snows there. and they shut down the track to vehicle traffic. People go cross-country sking on the track. There is a Webcam at the Nürb entrance. During the winter you will see people skiing.
http://www.nuerburgring.de/fileadmin/webcam/webcam.jpg
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- United Kingdom
I believe cars will be limited on what tracks they can drive on by what tires they can use, much as it was in GT4. You couldn't purchase snow or dirt tires for race cars & specialty cars.
I believe this will most likely be the case in GT5 also. Suspect you won't see a Toyota GT-One on the snowy streets on New York as with PGR.
I never understood why those special cars in GT4 couldn't enter a 0-1000m run and yet you could enter 0-400m and Top Speed runs.
I'd imagine stiffly setup cars would incur serious damage on rally courses over jumps and bumpy sections. Still it would be fun if we had the opportunity.
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It's awesome that it's confirmed, but at the same time, "it's about time". Many racers have had this stuff for awhile now.
This is from rFactor 2 (http://www.virtualr.net/rfactor-2-two-rainy-cockpit-previews/]) , which rain effect do you think looks better?
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Gran Turismo 5 is the winner. Hands-down.
the rFactor 2 weather looks great - but Gran Turismo 5's weather is photo-realistic.
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The advantage rFactor 2 has, is that it can work with a much larger buffer for the windscreen effects, resulting in higher resolution / detail in the droplets. This may be why the rain effect is not visible on the virtual camera viewpoints in the GT5 demos we've seen, since it appears to be quite low res. on the windscreen alone. (I'm assuming it's a "texture" based effect, as opposed to a geometry or single-pass "shader" effect).
P.S. I mentioned a while back that GT might be gunning for the PC sims (I had rFactor 2 in my mind, I may even have said it) - I just hope the physics stack up to the visual effects.
P.S. I mentioned a while back that GT might be gunning for the PC sims (I had rFactor 2 in my mind, I may even have said it) - I just hope the physics stack up to the visual effects.
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Me too.
I know that there are going to be frame drops from time to time, due to everything that PD has packed into GT5 - and I am just fine with that!
Just look at the level of polish in all the little details and that is why I don't care about losing a few frames every now and then.
I know that there are going to be frame drops from time to time, due to everything that PD has packed into GT5 - and I am just fine with that!
Just look at the level of polish in all the little details and that is why I don't care about losing a few frames every now and then.
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