rec.autos.simulators

What's going on?  How come this game looks to have about 10 times the
polygon count of anything else i've ever seen.

There's 4 new shots at http://www.racesimcentral.net/
and they look just stunning.

This game looks to be leaps and bounds beyond anything that's been released
to date.  If it plays anywhere near as good as it looks, they have a winner.
Check out this quote too...

"We are currently working towards a playable demo along the lines off a one
car one track test bed, so we can get some feedback on everything. "
-Chris and Tony West, World Sports Car Developer, West Racing

Game on =)
...Colin

Wow...incredible.

Superb.

Figure I'm going to have to reconsider my next cpu upgrade
(again.!!)and double it.

Can't think of anything more to say.

Except...where's Doc Brown and his DeLorean when you need him
most.

Time sure does move slow.

Ian.

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what will the requirements be like 1GHZ for recomended 700 for minimum

I wonder if like Nascar 4 it will use Hardware T&L to acheive such high
polygon counts?  That's the only thing I can think of that'll make a game
which looks that good run fast enough.

IIRC according to Papyrus, it will.

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-- Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard>
-- May the Downforce be with you...
-- http://www.WeRace.net
-- People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise
how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.

Frank I think he's asking about WSC...

Jon

he was wondering about WSC... though it's awesome that N4 will use T&L.

There was some discussion about the detail factor on the High Gear forums,
and it was mentioned that the West bros. did coding way back when
programmers HAD to get every last ounce out of the systems they were
developing for.  Maybe they arent lazy like most programmers today :-)

Brian Short

Maybe, but then how would Frank ever learn to read American? <G>

"Bruce Kennewell" wrote

<slaps himself>  D'oh!

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-- Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard>
-- May the Downforce be with you...
-- http://www.WeRace.net
-- People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise
how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.

If he'd used some punctuation it may have made it slightly clearer for
Francois and any others tfor whom English is not their first
language............

"I wonder if, like Nascar 4, it will use hardware T&L?"

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Regards,
Bruce Kennewell,
Canberra, Australia.
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  No no no!  Don't go slapping yourself silly...
let us doit for you....
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:)  dave henrie

I see what you mean, every other post here is grammatically perfect.

I think those days are gone now.  I would be nice to think some programmers
could just write code five times faster than anyone elses, but since they
are relying on D3D or Glide with a 3D card to draw the triangles, there's
not really much that can be done to speed things up in that particular area.
Actually, I know they are using Glide (along with D3D of course), and glide
doesn't support hardware T&L at all.  Maybe the whole game has just got tons
of graphical options, so when it looks like it does in those screenshots, it
runs at 5 fps.  Turn off all the detail and it runs at 30-40fps.  Sort of
aimed at PC's eigh*** months down the line.

Enough Bruce.  I'm a little tired of you constantly showing the fact that we
don't speak, write or talk English more than our principal language.  I
KNOW, ok?  I just read it at an incredibly fast speed, be sure that I KNOW
my English and have no problem balancing with the difficulty of that
language.

-- Yes I'm tickled as you can see, so this post looks quite rude.
-- Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard>
-- May the Downforce be with you...
-- http://www.WeRace.net