DC devs have said that the draw distance is around 200 kilometers.
I agree that it's hard to compare an open world racer to a circuit racer. FH2 looks amazing regardless.
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Forza Horizon 2: Resolution (1080p), Framerate (30fps), Music, & More Detailed - IGNF
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I agree that it's hard to compare an open world racer to a circuit racer. FH2 looks amazing regardless.
Jackbooted
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I don't know if I quite understand the draw distance of 200 km. The curvature of the earth makes anything beyond ~ 5 km out of sight unless they are referring to the very tips of mountains? Some rough math would translate in to a 4 km tall mountain just starting to be visible at ~ 200-225 km. Maybe the tips of the Alps for Europe? Would be cool to see how that is implemented but I'm getting off topic. My apologies.
Absolutely loved the engine sound going over that field...yummy.
JackAubrey
Member
If you are high up in the mountains you can see a lot further than the horizon at sea level.
It's probably montains that they're referring to.
Thanks. Looks good.
I'd take it.
yep, looks like a cross gen game
I doubt that, you wouldn't even be able to see Mount Everest 200km away due to the curving of the earth, its more likely 20km, either that or they were just flat out lying.
200km lol.
According to the write up the other day they are rendering Earth's atmosphere when it comes to lighting so allegedly all possible real world lights and colors will or can be displayed (obviously within the scope of machine and tv)
It has that Forza Horizon 'sheen' to it, i love it.
You mean blurred look? :/
Forza-hating aside I can't wait to see this at E3. Really starting to want an XB1...
Hockeymac18
Member
"Each location has a draw distance of up to 200km to the horizon and even simulates the curvature of the earth in both skies and terrain. Distant landscapes are built out and fully modelled, instead of ‘painted on’, to ensure that they support the dynamic, volumetric nature of the skies and lighting."
Why would it need a draw distance of 200km when you can't even see anything 200km away?, in fact i believe the furthest away you can see from the ground is about 30km or something.
In fact you have to be about 4km off the ground to be able to see 200km away -
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/01/15/how-far-away-is-the-horizon/#.U5IHOXbldmY
They need to put a "Hay challenge mode" instead of cones.Blurred? Looks pretty good in motion.
Kssio_Aug
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I think they've just chosen a bad scenario to show. That "farm" place is not so interesting as a road on a mountain for example! Also the weather and time of the day they chosed are not proper to call our attention.
And just to finish it all: IGN video on youtube. So its damn compressed!
I believe it may look awesome, they just didnt tease that right.
And just to finish it all: IGN video on youtube. So its damn compressed!
I believe it may look awesome, they just didnt tease that right.
Blurred? Looks pretty good in motion.
Yeah.. thats awesome. the free-roam racer sorta that we all wanted.
BloodMoney
Banned
The highest point in Spain is 3km. Could be some vistas coming off of mountains that need a long draw distance.
Also, it's not real life so the "draw distance" being equated into real world miles is a bit silly.
They talked about it during the interview earlier this week.
There is definitely variable weather.
Because we already know.
Yeah cool, it jut didn't make much sense to me and a bit of a waste of resources if you think about it although i highly doubt the game really does render land 200km in every direction!.
il Diavolo
Banned
Blurred? Looks pretty good in motion.
Dat sky.
Opus Angelorum
Member
It looks so good, the atmosphere and lighting is incredible.
BloodMoney
Banned
What we need is for this to make sweet love to a GTA type game, and spawn the future of open world car focused gaming.
THANK YOU. A little free roam GTA style game with ___ i don't know what ___, but as I said before test drive (the island one) almost did it. If you were able to just hang out, walk around the car, do some side quests that make sense for the game. Could even be on foot ones..
Maybe just call it "The Robb Report"
And your avatar, you just maybe keep it fed and entertained. Complain about poor people??? Which makes it a better driver? Picking up hot ladies or men, driving around town. I don't know but there is something there.
BloodMoney
Banned
The purpose of the game is to ball out for as long as possible without dying from a cocaine overdose. Think of a drug binging, 'Oregon Trail' style of open world racing, action game...
#11 - Each location has a draw distance of up to 200km to the horizon and even simulates the curvature of the earth in both skies and terrain. Distant landscapes are built out and fully modelled, instead of painted on, to ensure that they support the dynamic, volumetric nature of the skies and lighting.
Are you having trouble understanding the bolded part??
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MAN... if only I had talent.
No, i just don't believe it. It would be a complete waste or resources.
BloodMoney
Banned
My player would be 1/2 Gordon Gekko, 1/2 Tommy Vercetti.
The game must have 1st person gunplay while in the driver seat doing 200mph... also snorting coke off of escort's boobs while wearing a white linen jacket, suspenders, and no shirt.
I motion to change the game's name to "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous"
Diablohead
Member
They most likely use only a handful of polygons to make the buildings and trees in the distance, a super low detailed mesh just enough so the scene lighting can effect it more then a 2D sprite can.
arhra
Member
Key words: "up to 200km". It'd be downright stupid to model out 200km worth of terrain when you never see it because there's a mountain in the way that no point on the track can ever see past.
3 times the first fh size if im not wrong
StudioTan
Hold on, friend! I'd love to share with you some swell news about the Windows 8 Metro UI! Wait, where are you going?
Snkfanatic
Banned
Damn...that teaser. Welp time to start saving a little bit here and there for a XB1.
NullPointer
Member
Three times the drivable area, which considering how much was closed off in the first game could end up being roughly the same size.
I was honestly hoping for something much larger.
brotherbean
Member
So wasn't there kind of a mess around how the in-game economy was handled in Forza 5? I didn't pay a whole lot of attention to how all that ended up settling but I suppose it's too early to start worrying about that.
TrueGrime
Member
Good question. I wouldn't think damage would be too applicable for an arcade racer. Damage in the sense that we see damage but should it affect how you drive? Not sure how it was done in FH1 (since I never played it).
aygomyownroad
Member
When is Horizon 2 coming out? It's being revealed fully at e3 but a mate said it was due this fall?
He can't be right surely?
He can't be right surely?
SEGAvangelist
Member
It has since been corrected and I doubt MS wants to make the same mistake with FH2. I wouldn't worry.
StudioTan
Hold on, friend! I'd love to share with you some swell news about the Windows 8 Metro UI! Wait, where are you going?
The actual area is bigger as well.
Certainly it should be more visually varied than the first game as well.
I don't think it's blurred. Horizon had this "soft" look, so perhaps this is more of the same.