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Ray-tracing in Gran Turismo?
Topic Started: Feb 19 2010, 12:00 PM (969 Views)
infamousDee Feb 19 2010, 12:00 PM Post #1
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 http://ps3.ign.com/articles/813/813424p3.html

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Just as past games in the series have pushed the PlayStation and PlayStation 2 to their limits, Gran Turismo 5 should be a system showpiece for the PlayStation 3. The pre-race screen shows your car being worked on by your pit crew in a garage, and these scenes will feature full HDR, ray-traced lighting. These scenes are stunning and easily rival anything pre-rendered footage could throw at the screen.


Interesting. There was never any doubt that Gran Turismo 5's visuals are second-to-none, but this is incredible. In basic terms, ray-tracing requires a system to track the path of each and every ray of the light in virtual space; simulating shadows, reflections, and the refraction of light through transparent objects with awesome accuracy. To achieve this in real-time at an acceptable frame-rate requires an absolutely gargantuan amount of processing power, and to my knowledge, real-time ray-tracing would not enter the world of gaming for at least another generation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_tracing_(graphics

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Whisp Feb 21 2010, 08:36 AM Post #2
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 Thats pretty sweet. The visuals look amazing. Is this game gonna be released for the x box? I'd laugh if the x box couldn't handle the graphics
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Red Ranger Eater Feb 21 2010, 09:58 AM Post #3
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 Oh my god, is that image using ray tracing? It's absolutely stunning.
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Neo MetallixPosted Image Feb 21 2010, 10:52 AM Post #4
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Feb 21 2010, 08:36 AM
Thats pretty sweet. The visuals look amazing. Is this game gonna be released for the x box? I'd laugh if the x box couldn't handle the graphics
Dude, no. Gran Turismo will never be on Xbox it is made by a Sony-owned company. Anyway, GT5 Prologue looked stunning but there have already been comparisons with Prologue and screenshots of the final game and the screenshots of GT5 have much more detail than Prologue does.
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Leo Feb 21 2010, 11:19 AM Post #5
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 Wow... that looks amazing T_T . I actually thought I was looking at a real car for a second there.
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infamousDee Feb 22 2010, 10:35 AM Post #6
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Feb 21 2010, 08:36 AM
Thats pretty sweet. The visuals look amazing. Is this game gonna be released for the x box? I'd laugh if the x box couldn't handle the graphics
It is known that Forza 3 pushes the system to absolute breaking point, yet still it's graphics aren't nearly as impressive as Gran Turismo's. Permission to laugh.
Edited by infamousDee, Feb 22 2010, 11:38 AM.
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