Realtime raytracing in games? Now a reality, thx to the makers of GT5!

Made possible by one of the gods of game creation, Polyphony Digital (GT5): http://ps3.ign.com/articles/813/813424p1.html

http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/ar...6051502838.jpg

Here's a video: http://www.gran-turismo.com/jp/movie/d920.html

They just use it for menu backgrounds and such. The game itself uses "normal" shaders like all the other games, however, they promise to go to a full 1080p at 60Hz!

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The game will boast a larger selection of vehicles than its predecessor, Gran Turismo 4.

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Oh and GT 5 Prologue is coming out in October, woohoo! :)

Fredi

Prologue is coming out with limited cars in 2007... wait for it to be delayed to January 2008.

Anyway, real-time ray tracing... welcome to 2001. In a game demo, 2005. In a real game that's been vaporware so far... I'd wait for it to actually come out before I say anything.

So far, no 1080p game by Sony has been 60fps. And once they drop the features - damage has already been somewhat ruled out for Prologue - and with the lengthy time per car model for GT5... I'm going to treat this like Windows Vista... Sony/Polyphony will deliver only 2/5ths of what they're claiming now.

I saw that Nismo 350Z in the (so-called) F1 paddock at Goodwood this year.

This game'll be the reason I stump up for the PS3.

im still not happy about potentially having to purchase new cars with real money and then having to download the.

What is the prologue garbage? Just release the full game already...

if they put inside car view with detailed interior i'll be happy.

NFS prostreet finally has a damage system which is something that would be nice to see in GranTourismo too- but still imo. those GT5 shots are by fare the most impressive car game shots I´ve seen so far. It´s almost impossible to recognize the polygons though they used a lot normal mapping.

Tracks in Prologue:

- Eiger Nordwand
- London
- Suzuka
- Fuji
- Circuit de la Sarthe (aka Le Mans)

Video: http://www.gran-turismo.com/en/movie/d1109.html (There's no CG in this!)

http://www.gran-turismo.com/jp/binar.../1103/p18a.jpg

http://img2.putfile.com/main/8/23322493194.jpg

http://i17.tinypic.com/4vq2mm9.jpg

Let's hope this really comes out in October. :)

Fredi

those cars look really nice. i havnt seen any screen shots from the game, so i just assumed they were making it very arcade like. but this looks very realistic.