Trees and shading

I hope they look at the lods and the way trees and other objects get shading and shadows. They change drastically and the shadowing gets added last minute. I have everything on ultra.

 

on nurb is better than on other tracks, i think this is all just an iterative process. there will be more work done on this. they improve the engine constantly so i have no worries

 

I have also this problem but it happens only in MP

 

It happens everywhere, all tracks I mean. The shading, AO, shadowing gets applied once the player's car is approaching trees, vegetation, objects etc. I have everything maxed out not just in the sim's video settings but also using UE4 cvar/scalability settings and it still does it. With this very nice engine which has clear photorealistic potential it's a pity to have such issues. Worth noting is that with the latest 0.4.1 and its graphic improvements, I do get an extremely close to photorealistic rendering using 190% resolution scale, AA temporal on EPIC, all with a 2080ti. Oh, and the default gamma in the game is tweaked by the devs to generate a very punchy picture, but nowhere near correct as it darkens the picture too much. On my calibrated plasma with an sRGB 3DLUT I can tell this easily. I corrected this behavior easily though with r.Color.Mid=0.8 (default 0.5) cvar.

 

UE4 cvar/scalability ? Is that a 3rd party app?

 

no, just console variables to be put in various *.ini files like engine.ini

 

Yes, thanks for the tip @nd4spdvnnd
I added r.color.Mid in engine.ini and set it to 0.4, now the picture is a bit less bright
With in game color saturation to 70 it's perfect for me in VR, with my Rift.
It's more relaxing, and a bit photorealistic too.

I also tried you setting : 0.8
In VR it looked more like the picture in AC1 VR, bright and a bit washed out.

 

I think I don't have that shadows or AO pump out, for instance at the Nurb. grandstand couverture. Not shure what had change, maybe shadows setting to med. can't check it now. Will take a look at it later.

 

Can't check right now, but I have a feeling this shadow popping might happen "worst" on Epic or High shadows? But yeah it would look better if it wasn't so on/off looking. It's to save performance by limiting draw distance for shadows, but even if it was more gradual change and not a sudden jump, it wouldn't catch the eye. Dunno if such gradual change is possible, or if LODs will always cause this sudden jumps

 

I think that Red dead Redemtpion 2 made a great job on this point with a console hardware (but of course, it's not the same budget and expertise for the graphical part)

 

Of course, a horse is not so fast but even with a train, it's pretty much stable, smooth.

 

RDR2 has nothing to do with ACC, it's run by Rockstar's own Rage engine.

 

Where is this engine.ini file? Did you have to create it? Can you post the contents of your file?

NVM, found it.

 

@WallyM

The engine.ini file is here :
C:\Users\****\AppData\Local\AC2\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor

AppData is a hidden folder, you must activate hidden folders first in your file explorer.


You just have to open the file, and copy/paste the lines.

 

Could you explain technically that ? If not, your answer does not help.

I know this is not the same type of game, not the same ressource/budget (Kunos is still a small team).
And by the way, you have the same pb in Pcars 2 (less, but also, this game was released, with a lot of updates).

It's maybe possible to find a solution for that.
For example in the past, like "3D Instance" with geometry (The same object is calculated just once, even for derivation of the same object, you can create new one but it 's a mixe of two thing, but already in the memory, no need to calculate again, sorry for my bad english), some great idea like that (devs, programming). And now, this is a solution for many types of game.
Maybe try to find a solution in the orther game ( even if it's not a racing game).For me, it's not incompatible.
I don't know if it's easy to modify UE 4, etc...or if it's too much demanding with physics but it's a shame to have this great visual but not stable.

It's hard to find time, and I truly understand that it's not a priority.

 

I just see no reason to bring up the Rage engine vs. UE4. At all...

 

It's not a versus... You think this is my intention but I don't mean it that way.

 

Maybe increase a little with optimization the distance, and use opacity between 3D mesh, not somthing less brutal. Maybe add some inbetween mesh also...

With shadows, play with opacity, resolution by distance...?

 

I tried to play with cvars for LOD, shadow and AO settings both global and foliage and couldn't get rid of the so close to the car shadow/AO rendering. It's a behavior similar to the car lights like they should light ahead but with shadows (or more like AO?) instead...

 

A short-term solution for Kunos to look at may be to simply turn shadows and AO for trees off. Might not look as good, but it should eliminate the popping which is what's really ugly at the moment.