From SimLeague and Andrea “Xana” comes a track pack for GTR Evolution, bringing us the stock tracks with much more realistic lightning and saturation.
See the comparison shots below to find out what to expect from this, the pack includes the following tracks:
Brands Hatch 2007
Brno 2007
Curitiba 2007
Estoril 2007
Istanbul
Magny Cours
Monza 2007
Nurburgring
Oschersleben 2007
Valencia 2007
Zandvoort 2007
Anderstorp 2007
The pack will not overwrite original tracks but create a new subcategory in the track list, causing no mismatches during online racing.
6e66o
October 20th, 2008 at 18:32
interesting,
i will try it :smile:
six.degrees
October 20th, 2008 at 18:34
Looks good for a cold winter day’s testing :P
F1Racer
October 20th, 2008 at 19:50
See what happens when you de-saturate away from those unrealistic default colours ? Take note ppl.
Much better !
kkv
October 20th, 2008 at 20:01
I like colder asphalt colour but other things are better in the original version imo. Looks like the author need to buy a colour calibrator for his monitor or at least turn down any “game” or whatever other “refined” mode he uses. I have only ever seen that kind of dark grey grass in February
scca1981
October 20th, 2008 at 20:27
Nice to see this as an option… I agree with kkv though. The grass is just plain “winter” time. I’ll stick with the stock colors anyhow as I like the rich color look.
DRat
October 20th, 2008 at 21:42
Reminds me of the revised coloration of the GTR2 Birmingham Motorplex, with a bluish tinge and no greens. It just is not realistic (unless viewed by aliens with a blue-white sun, I suppose)
kkv
October 20th, 2008 at 22:19
The colour calibrator is actually very helpful and simple to use device. It takes only few minutes to get a result you never reach with tweaking your monitor by hand even if you do it forever. And after all you will find magicaly that colours of your games are just fine, your camera is not that crap you thought about and a printer prints almost the same you see on your screen. All that “unrealistic” and “cartoonish” thing is just an effect of a nuke brighted colour representation the display companies tend to set by default to impress unsophidticated customer.
six.degrees
October 20th, 2008 at 22:37
@kkv – got a link? sounds interesting.
kkv
October 20th, 2008 at 23:02
http://www.xrite.com/product_overview.aspx?ID=789
or
http://www.xrite.com/product_overview.aspx?ID=789
kkv
October 20th, 2008 at 23:03
or
http://www.datacolor.eu/en/products/index.html
kkv
October 20th, 2008 at 23:06
looks like links are not allowed here. Try to google “eye one” or “spyder” + “calibrator”
Montoya
October 20th, 2008 at 23:10
Links are allowed, comments containing more than one link just have to be approved first – Spam protection :smile:
DW
October 20th, 2008 at 23:12
The originals look far better to me.
six.degrees
October 21st, 2008 at 00:12
Thanks kkv. I don’t really like how cold these shots look but properly calibrated colours can’t be anything other than a good thing :)
sibkin
October 21st, 2008 at 02:26
server down? :?:
6e66o
October 21st, 2008 at 12:27
made a comparison including real pics.
Check it out:
http://simscreens.blogspot.com/2008/10/gtr-evo-lighting-comparsion.html
DRat
October 21st, 2008 at 13:33
Thanks for the comparison, 6e660. It appears that the SL version is somewhat bluer and paler than RL, where (as we already have seen) the Simbin version has a smoggy yellow cast to it.
Also, we’ve got to take into consideration the actual lighting – those RL shots appear to have been made with a fairly heavy overcast present, while the Simbin coloration looks a lot more like heavy smog and the SL is just plain too washed out to be real (at least on my calibrated monitor).
The Lonely
October 21st, 2008 at 15:15
From one extreme to another it seems…
Timon Bolier
October 21st, 2008 at 18:15
Great!
Much better and closer to reality for me. In real life there is a lot more white light on everything, the original simbin is too yellow and dark, in summer you have a bit of both and I must say SL did an awesome job!
WTG!
Timon Bolier
October 21st, 2008 at 18:34
Ok, after testing some in game, it looks a bit too cold yes, like freezing in winter.
Misu
October 21st, 2008 at 22:57
great :) this explains my strange feeling caused by the original screenshots :smile:
nice job thx :)
Frankalexandre
October 22nd, 2008 at 04:11
The default GTRE colors are to warm. I just change the colors on my monitor using Magic Tune Premium to cool color and the efect is better than the track pack IMO. The effect is similar but the green is better.
Frankalexandre
October 22nd, 2008 at 04:27
Cold color i mean.
jonilaht
January 16th, 2009 at 19:09
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