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Unreal Engine 4 Demo Scandinavian

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Unreal Engine 4 Demo Scandinavian
 

 

 

 

 

 

Save 33% on Assetto Corsa - Dream Pack 1 on Steam
 
Boom!
 

Childhood gaming memories right here.
 

Here they are… The Assetto Corsa Dream Pack Cars
 

 
Kunos Simulazioni have just released a very clever picture of the long awaited Assetto Corsa dream pack cars on the Nordschleife green hell. This just serves to further ‘whet’ our appetites for this DLC and make us wonder how much longer we will have to wait before its release!
 
The upcoming Dream Pack DLC for Assetto Corsa will include 10 new cars and the laser-scanned version of the Nürburgring Nordschleife.
 
What is your favourite car and why, feel free to comment!
 
Dream Pack DLC content:
 

Nurburgring Nordschleife
Sauber Mercedes C9
Corvette C7R GTE
Nissan GTR GT3
Alfa Romeo 4C
Alfa Romeo GTA
Alfa Romeo 155 V6 TI
McLaren P1
McLaren F1 GTR
BMW M235i
Mercedes 190 E 2.6-16 Evolution 2
 

 

Here they are… The Assetto Corsa Dream Pack Cars
 

 
Kunos Simulazioni have just released a very clever picture of the long awaited Assetto Corsa dream pack cars on the Nordschleife green hell. This just serves to further ‘whet’ our appetites for this DLC and make us wonder how much longer we will have to wait before its release!
 
The upcoming Dream Pack DLC for Assetto Corsa will include 10 new cars and the laser-scanned version of the Nürburgring Nordschleife.
 
What is your favourite car and why, feel free to comment!
 
Dream Pack DLC content:
 

Nurburgring Nordschleife
Sauber Mercedes C9
Corvette C7R GTE
Nissan GTR GT3
Alfa Romeo 4C
Alfa Romeo GTA
Alfa Romeo 155 V6 TI
McLaren P1
McLaren F1 GTR
BMW M235i
Mercedes 190 E 2.6-16 Evolution 2
 

 

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Unreal Engine 4 - Swedish Apartment

Yep, if you're far away from the trees and/or whizzing past them at 250kph you're not likely to notice that optimisation, whereas making all the leaves 3D would be a massive FPS killer, so it's an easy decision to make. Because they're 2D, they always have to face a player (otherwise at side-on you'd only see a line), which is why they appear to rotate when in freecam/photomode (also possibly in replay mode).
 
You may find one day that there is a transitional phase employed later where only critical nearby trees are fully 3D and others are not. Or, devs may choose to improve other things and leave tree tech 'as is'.
 
If you've got access to the WMD forums there is a 3D Trees thread there where there are some technical posts made by SMS on the subject. I think Bathurst had (or has, I forget) 3D trees at one point.

Apparently they're called ''billboards'' or ''billboard trees''. They are a way of using just 2D planes with trees textured on them, instead of modeling a 3D tree. They rotate most likely due to being targeted at, what I guess, the player. Way of saving on requirements. Was done in lots and lots of games, but nowadays I really don't expect to see them that often except for perhaps small titles. Seems that video shows a mix of a 3d modeled tree base with 2D planes textured with a picture of lots of leafs.

Same deal in TDU1 and many other games. It's called compromising quality and with performance.

I guess we better all jump on board X Motor Racing if the bots tell us to :lol:
 
 
btw I have played the X Motor Racing demo many years ago when it was new, it was absolute rubbish then and looking at the video above it seems like nothing has changed. iirc I had to spend an hour working out how to map by wheel controls in a config file because they had no in-game interface to do it.