It seems there’s no letting up with the GT7 teaser videos, with a second clip this week landing today. This time the focus, quite literally, is photography, and the Scapes game mode.
As usual, the video takes the form of a one-on-one interview with GT series founder Kazunori Yamauchi and an unseen interviewer. Yamauchi speaks of his own love of photography and how that developed, before speaking about the Scapes mode introduced in GT Sport.
If you’re not familiar with Scapes, it’s essentially a specialist photography mode in which lighting data is captured from a selection of locations around the world and built into a three-dimensional image space. Players can then place their cars — and driver avatars — into the Scape, to create an image that looks as close to the real thing as currently possible.
The process of capturing Scapes locations actually resulted in Polyphony Digital writing brand new software for Sony’s “Alpha” camera line, specifically for the task.
In GT Sport there were just over 1,200 Scapes locations set in 23 countries around the world. The locations varied from beauty spots to industrial landscapes, and from race tracks to places where you cannot even reasonably get a car.
That number is set to at least double with GT7, with the Scapes team now logging some 60 countries on their travels over the last five years. You can see in the game build featured in the video that there’s 2,568 Scapes locations which include places like Argentina, Bolivia, and Madagascar. By launch we’ll probably see a couple hundred more.
In addition to the Scapes, the video gives us another look at some of the new cars coming to — and some of the cars which skipped Sport returning to — Gran Turismo 7. That includes the Audi R8 LMS Evo, above, and the Mercedes-AMG GT-R as featured in the thumbnail.
As for the light traces that have formed part of these videos, previously revealing Deep Forest and Apricot Hill, they’re present again but seem to be repeating these track paths.
There’ll likely be more of these videos coming up next week, so watch this space for more!
