Shift 2 Unleashed Photomode
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I love my little Mini
The car Anti Aliasing is so much better on PC, I could go down all these pics and distinguish which was on which machine.
GT5 did it great on PS3, don't get it.
They had five years to perfect their graphics engine, a huge budget and only one platform to optimize their game along with (probably) much better communication with PS3 hardware and library engineers. And, dare I say so, they may even had involvement in the initial PS3 design phase. After all, they are one of Sony's most lucrative studios.
GT5 was bound to be better than Shift 2 in something! And the (almost) 1080p, clean and crisp graphics of GT5 along with the advanced (and complicated) photo-mode are some of the strong points of GT5! Not surpassing, since PD are a graphic-focused studio.
But, in my opinion, all this GT5 graphic-tech is going to waste once you see the lifeless, badly modeled tracks (Nordschleife excluded), bad textures, horrible shadows and smoke effects, bad visual-damage, standard cars, etc which I think really break the immersion. On the contrary the lower resolution and worse anti-aliasing (also due to deferred rendering) of Shift 2 on PS3, doesn't break the immersion since you don't even notice it once you get in the racing action!
I admit it would be nice if Shift 2 fired a separate rendering thread (similar to GT5 and Forza 3) once you took a photo to generate High-Performance-PC-quality photos on PS3. But I can't even begin to imagine how difficult that would be to implement!
Also I think every minute (or unit of money) SMS would spent on better photo-mode would be a minute less spent on nailing the physics and the racing environment. They would risk of "biting more than they could chew" and losing focus from their goal of developing a realistic and fun racing-game-sim! Hey, that's maybe what happened to GT5 after all!
Also, for me at least, every minute spent on taking photos in Shift 2 is one minute less spent on racing. When I have more time I may try to take some nice photos of Shift 2, though I really take awful photos!
By the way, some really excellent photos in this thread! 👍
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Here are a few pics let me know what you think.
zenvega great pics, I look foward to seeing more from you.
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@zenvega Awsome time attack s15. Looks like a beast. How much hp?
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Indeed, that S15 looks brutal. Very well done!
Kicking it old school...
The Porsche rules
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- supercharged14
I'm not really good at making liveries... But hey, I made these and took a photo with my cellphone (I play on a PS3, and PSN problems and such :s).
Next time I'll post some action pics
Next time I'll post some action pics
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PS Store can't get up soon enough, I want to drive those cars.
On a happier note, I can finally upload some photos now.
SLS @ Spa for WTC.
Autobild Porsche showing EA's new motto "It's in the game, you just can't use it".
Pre-Works Challenger.
Post-Works Challenger with 1000hp.
Radical @ London again for WTC
One of my favorite pics I've taken in this game.
There are more, but none I felt like were worth posting.
On a happier note, I can finally upload some photos now.
SLS @ Spa for WTC.
Autobild Porsche showing EA's new motto "It's in the game, you just can't use it".
Pre-Works Challenger.
Post-Works Challenger with 1000hp.
Radical @ London again for WTC
One of my favorite pics I've taken in this game.
There are more, but none I felt like were worth posting.
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Great job, Justin! Some of the better ones I've seen.
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Thanks, really wish there were more options within photomode.
I've edited the Challenger pic.
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I remember he drove a Seat a while back yes. But I've seen him this year as a GP2 Team leader at Dubai where even the car is prepared by a portuguese team I think.
Because of curiosity I went to check his WTCC car. Shame the sponsors are not in the game
Nice job with the Porsche 👍 I just don't have the patience or skills to do it myself
Because of curiosity I went to check his WTCC car. Shame the sponsors are not in the game
Nice job with the Porsche 👍 I just don't have the patience or skills to do it myself
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I remember he drove a Seat a while back yes. But I've seen him this year as a GP2 Team leader at Dubai where even the car is prepared by a portuguese team I think.
Because of curiosity I went to check his WTCC car. Shame the sponsors are not in the game
Nice job with the Porsche 👍 I just don't have the patience or skills to do it myself
thanks
Its not about skills but like you said patience and a lot of work...
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Sorry to be a noob, but can I get pics from S2U to the PS3 XMB Menu?
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