Hi guys! seeing some screenshoots from Pcars like this: Or from the upcoming FMS5 title Or even from the old gen ps3 I wonder why I have never seen this sunlight/lens flare in rfactor 2?! How I can achieve something like this or similar to this in rfactor 2?!
Don't think its been put it yet for rfactor 2. It's in GTR 2 which is quite old now and looks really good. Unless I'm missing a hidden setting, Maybe it will come when they do the Rain drops?
It looks like an lens flare effect, which I am not sure I really want to see in a racing game. It would not be adding realism as most people don't look through a camera lens to drive.
the Forza screenshot is lens flare and that has nothing to do in simulation (max in replays in camera mode) the rest would be accetable as sun glare, but in my opinion, when a sun shines right in your face, you whole screen shoud be turning white, in some good looking manners, not just the area where the sun is located, as one cant simply see anything anywhere when the sun shines into ones face
I'd love to see tracks with sunlight (not lens flare, just the proper lighting) without having to resort to HDR, which doesn't work properly anyway.
Having a lens flare that invades your vision while you drive into the sun IS realistic. Get in your car and drive into the sun at sunset sometime. There will be a large portion of your vision obstructed by the sunlight. Also, having a huge flare when driving simulates you not being able to see very well. To me it sounds like you are for non-realism. Sounds like you would rather drive into the sunset in game and be able to see fine. Doesn't make any sense.
There is a sun and sunlight in rF2, it just doesn't look very spectacular at the moment. View attachment 10236
The guy is not talking about lens flare, he's talking about not being able to see when you're facing the sun.
But i can look directly into the sun while wearing polarized ray bans without any glare. I'm fine with these stupid graphic effects as long as there is an option to turn them off.
I don't know if the sunlight alla Pcars or the lens flar(??!) is realistic or less realistic, but looking at the screenshots from Pcars/FMS5 and GT5, they seem alive and they give you that sense of life and deepness and I think that sunlight help a lot of giving that sense of life and dinamism, but when you look to rf2 screenshots they appear to be a bit lifeless,static and flat! Maybe a bit of sunlight would help to give some " life" to the rfactor 2 environment!
With certain HDR profiles, you can tell there's a faint effect, but there's still a veil over the sun right now. Maybe in a later update. Even GT4 had that.
FYI Sun Occlusion is broken in build 300, RF2 usually looks a lot better than it currently does when that's working.
That's a fantastic simulation of what your view would look like unless you wore sunglasses or squinted a lot. I think it would indeed be tremendously cool if we had this types of lighting effect that we would need to deal with like irl on the race track.
Yep, keep the light/bright spot from the sun...but remove the lens flare unless it is a trackside camera...
