…it looks great? Like it actually looks like what a night race is supposed to look like. I don’t know, it just looks different, better, more vibrant. But it’s only for the championship race. I cannot recreate the same conditions with blueprint. The event settings say “dawn, clear” but i can’t make it look the same. Even assuming a mistake and the time of day is actually “night” i still can’t replicate how this race looks in blueprint. If you stop after the checkpoint at around 30 percent look at the hillside in the distance. It looks correctly lit in the championship race but the lighting can’t be replicated outside this race.
Am I crazy? This one particular race is the best I’ve ever seen night look in this game. Why can’t all the other street races look like this? What is special about this one championship race? For what it’s worth I am on a Series X performance mode, HDR10 (I like the way it looks).
Maybe they’re forcing a different (higher) gfx setting for their races or have more specific options (dev tools) to set lighting and such then we do? Just a wild guess.
Ok, so after some investigating i have discovered that race conditions can be replicated but that there are multiple times of “dawn” that are available. There is a late dawn and an early dawn that can be changed by backing out and hitting test drive again. Early dawn will be closest to night in lighting.
I still don’t understand why the night time lighting looks so bad but i suspect it is something to do with the moon. It has this sort of glowy, bloom that is only there at night. It seems to throw off the contrast for the whole scene and makes everything look washed out and too bright. The moon is present at dawn as well but the skybox doesn’t have that “moonlight” effect.
I’ll leave some share codes to a few photos i took for comparison. The photo settings are default.
Dawn lighting
964 857 248
315 510 434
Night lighting
184 413 876
170 947 091
I would think the middle of the night should look darker than dawn right? Even in a full moon nobody’s night vision is THAT good. It just looks so cartoony and out of place, especially considering how good the other times of day look.