This might sound like a silly question but for some people myself included Shadow/LOD pop on trees is really distracting and reduces immersion.
Do we really want all the extra detail on the trees in the game if the trade off is Shadow/LOD pop?
I mean we don’t really pick up on the extra detail in the trees when driving by at 100mph but the Shadow/LOD pop is easy to spot.
Now this doesn’t mean going back to 2D trees, in the trailers(s) I can see the trees are fully 3D and quite detailed until the camera is quite close and then the extra detail comes in. I’d like a setting that just stops the last detail step if possible.
Would anyone else preferer they didn’t have that last step of detail that causes the pop and instead leave that extra detail for say the photo mode (or have a toggle setting)?
Let’s take another game as an example, Assetto Corsa Competizione is a great looking game but I think it’s visuals are spoiled a lot by this very thing and there’s really nothing in the settings that gives you a way to git rid of the Shadow/LOD pop on trees. I’ve tried on my PC with an RTX 3090 and you just can’t do it. Your best option is to race in overcast light to reduce it.
I can totally understand your point. I had the same feeling with Forza Horizon 5. I didn’t play it for a few weeks and suddenly found out that playground has fixed the issue somehow on PC. Now there is barely any tree detail pop in on PCand I love it. It makes the immersion so much denser.
I really love the fact that Turn 10 adds Raytracing and dynamic light. So I am willing to sacrifice some of the solidity of the world in benefit of that. What I don’t understand, though, is why its always foreground detail that has to pop in, when LOD-changing background stuff could be hidden by detailed forground items.
Didn’t notice it in the trailer. But ideally I’d say the graphic setting options should be fairly robust for both PC and console. There should be basic options for people to brainlessly set, of course, but there should also be advanced options for people who want to disable certain graphical effects that annoy them. Personally I like to turn bloom way down and turn off motion blur and depth of field when I have the chance.
I’m just hoping that other game engines (such as ForzaTech) will develop similar technologies to Unreal Engine 5’s Nanite, as it effectively removes LoD pop-in altogether.
But the cars reflect each other! That’s the one feature the marketing department wants to promote so there’s not much emphasis on anything else. The whole game doesn’t look great in my opinion, it’s just FM7 again with ray traced reflections and that’s it, with the unrealistic color palette and cartoonish contrast. This is a game for the mass market that doesn’t care about details like realistic visuals and shadow detail / draw distance, for example.
No, aside from raytracing it also adds dynamic time of day.
So no more pre-rendered shadows like they had on previous FM games, but some sort of realtime lighting and shadowing.
I think the pre-rendered lighting played a big part in the stable look, it might be pretty hard to get close to that with dynamic lighting.
I don´t know, but the pop-in is probably not tied to geometry LOD but rather to shadow detail over distance.
Anyway, maybe it can be smoothed out till release.