Nascar 4 - Cars look like toys

I was watching a replay tonight and I was trying to determine why, despite the nice job Papy did on the graphics, the cars look more like toys than real cars. Then it hit me - the light reflections are too wide and spread out on the car bodies. I think if they had reduced the size of the reflections the cars would look larger and more realistic. It's a minor point, but I thought it might be interesting. Brian

Yes but what resolution and what bit-rate do you have N4 set to? 1600x1200 made a huge diff for me & 16b to 32b really changes the optics too. Of course 16b may run better depending on your video card & cpu speed? "Phantom" wrote:

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| I was watching a replay tonight and I was trying to determine why, despite | the nice job Papy did on the graphics, the cars look more like toys than | real cars. Then it hit me - the light reflections are too wide and spread | out on the car bodies. I think if they had reduced the size of the | reflections the cars would look larger and more realistic. | | It's a minor point, but I thought it might be interesting. | | Brian | |

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On a different issue, If you think about the shape, the cigar look, and that N4 is a rewrite of GPL you can understand where the too-short-front and too-long-rear come from...always a sore spot for me One thing about N4, when a 2ghz processor comes out, the detail in the highest resolution with all the bells n whistles turned on will be awesome and wont require a patch :) Phantom <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> I was watching a replay tonight and I was trying to determine why, despite > the nice job Papy did on the graphics, the cars look more like toys than > real cars. Then it hit me - the light reflections are too wide and spread > out on the car bodies. I think if they had reduced the size of the > reflections the cars would look larger and more realistic. > > It's a minor point, but I thought it might be interesting. > > Brian > >

Hmm... I'll have to look at the shape again. My sore spot is still the lighting effects, though. I think the "fatness", for lack of a better term, of the reflections makes them look like Matchbox cars. Again, for many it's a minor point but for me it ruins the illusion. Brian "Tim" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:kbyl7.222622$[email hidden]...

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> On a different issue, > > If you think about the shape, the cigar look, and that N4 is a rewrite of > GPL you can understand where the too-short-front and too-long-rear come > from...always a sore spot for me > > One thing about N4, when a 2ghz processor comes out, the detail in the > highest resolution with all the bells n whistles turned on will be awesome > and wont require a patch > :) > > Phantom <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > I was watching a replay tonight and I was trying to determine why,

despite > > the nice job Papy did on the graphics, the cars look more like toys than > > real cars. Then it hit me - the light reflections are too wide andspread

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> > out on the car bodies. I think if they had reduced the size of the > > reflections the cars would look larger and more realistic. > > > > It's a minor point, but I thought it might be interesting. > > > > Brian > > > > > >