Automobilista 2: New Preview Video Released

[Paul Jeffrey]

Not satisfied with the last Automobilista 2 video footage? Well wrap your eyes around this one...

Reiza Studios recently revealed a new comparison video of the developing Automobilista 2 simulation, showing the game in direct comparison to its older brother AMS 1, and featuring the work-in-progress Snetterton Circuit in the UK.

Despite obviously being a significant upgrade over the original title, many fans were a little underwhelmed by how development of Automobilista 2 looked to be progressing from a visual point of view, something that Reiza Studios have acknowledged when reading the comments section of the various articles featuring the July roadmap post.

Having another shot at wowing the crowds, Reiza have recently dropped a much improved video of the Ultima GTR lapping around the Snetterton track in various time of day conditions - and it's fair to say the visual improvements are considerable...

Capture has a higher bitrate which is more accurate to the game´s actual graphical quality" said Reiza Studios Renato Simioni.

Other differences in this new video include improvements to track lighting, updated road and foliage shaders, revised textures; smoothed cockpit model edges & updated materials; adjustments to audio code, rebalancing of engine sounds and various sound effects (also replacing a few placeholders used in the original video); updated physics and increased game graphical settings.

Should be stated perhaps that this still isn´t the most exciting car / track combo or settings to promote AMS2 which wasn´t really the point of the original video - obviously we miscalculated how closely people would be looking!

This is a better representation of AMS2 in its current stage of development but it´s still a WIP - things will change as we progress to release and continue to afterwards. Such is the nature of the thing...
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So, what do you think?

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[MarcG]

Boring Flat Track not impressed so far hope it all looks better on the final release.

So you want a hilly bumpy Snetterton then? You might wanna contact Motorsport Vision and ask them to make it better for you.

 

[FeltHat]

And this looks bad:

it looks worse than it should be partially because it has lense flare effect all over it

 

[mantasisg]

I saw some people disagree with me. The specularity of grass which I am talking about is not really true specularity effect, but it acts pretty much on same angle, it is not a reflection of light or anything, but simply just specularity colour, which is result of sun light shining through leaves, which should result in yellowish color tone. And it can be achieved in track models with primitive texture carpets + 2d fins that everybody for some reason are calling 3D grass.

Just like in GT Sport. Lawn and most other stuff gets yellowish tone when in specularity zone.

A GTS video:

Though there is a bit of weird exposure stuff going on there in GTS. But overall colours are so fine. But prebaked raytracing must help a lot there. Still they have to have shaders and textures nailed.

 

[Germain Entete]

Well unlike several posts, to me, graphics wise, it already looks sharper than the previous vid they released a few days ago.

 

[SAGY31]

Looks good, only hoping for improvements in engine sound and especially shifting sounds.

 

[Edison5do]

I like What I see, but I'm afraid, will this have the Tire Soap effect of PC2? like you cant just get a corner without the tires squishin like you are drifting...

 

[ls13coco]

Is there any info on if Kickstarter backers from AMS1 who backed for AMS1 and AMS2 plus all DLC are still getting ams2 and dlc? The whole new backing program without a mention of the previous has me confused.

 

[ATSSHD]

Im blind or what? PC2 Snetterton looks better.

 

[Ole Andreasen]

Im blind or what? PC2 Snetterton looks better.

I feel exactly the same. I saw the video and thougt - what? but all the praise made me think it was me... Glad that someone else is also not seeing the wonder.

 

[Steve Worrell]

People getting annoyed at the picture for the article....

 

[passenger]

Improved visuals. That´s the way to go until first release. I hope there is much more improvement to come.

If you check the Snetterton track in Project Cars 2, it is a lot more detailed than this one. Also, the interior
of the car looks low resolution for today´s standard graphics. The lighting effects are good enough though.

Project Cars 2 is a very nice looking and graphically detailed game. If Automobilista 2 can match it, we should
be more than happy with it, because what really matters is the physics, and Reiza will cover that department
prertty well, I´m sure.

 

[Ralle 111]

Sorry , but I think Snetterton is the worst track to show the power of the graphics engine .You can see seven trees and two buildings on the whole track. Except from the interior it looks a bit like rf1 .

 

[FeltHat]

Sorry , but I think Snetterton is the worst track to show the power of the graphics engine .You can see seven trees and two buildings on the whole track. Except from the interior it looks a bit like rf1 .

the point of the video is to show snetterton (its remaster of snetterton trailer)

 

[Dave Stephenson]

Is there any info on if Kickstarter backers from AMS1 who backed for AMS1 and AMS2 plus all DLC are still getting ams2 and dlc? The whole new backing program without a mention of the previous has me confused.

If you backed at Level 5 or above yes, see here for info and to grab your keys https://forum.reizastudios.com/threads/automobilista-2-early-backing-campaign.6233/

 

[mms]

Mine is already up and running and progressing at a steady pace of one second per second!

lol, just make sure it doesn't break, you might get stuck in an awkward moment forever

 

[Renato Simioni]

There seems to be a bit of misunderstanding about what this video was - it and the original were part of our monthly development update, which are intended to offer some insight into our development process, the things we are working on, new licenses we´ve acquired, and anything that we find to be interesting from a development perspective, not only for AMS2 but also other projects which are still active.

This past month we ran into this unusual overlap of working on the same tracks for both the “old” and the “new” sim, which seemed to me would make for an interesting bit of material in the dev update. Turns out that was a mistake, not only because the AMS2 footage on the 1st video was somewhat sloppily put together, but also because some people will scrutinize every second of a video to death to a wide variety of hasted conclusions in the meantime the whole context of the dev update it had been a part of was lost in the shuffle.

It´s the nature of these things - we are obviously dealing with a lot bigger expectations and attention for AMS2 and it may be that more discretion is in order, but eventually the sim will do its own talking and everyone will be able to judge for themselves

 

[Michel Bélisle]

There seems to be a bit of misunderstanding about what this video was - it and the original were part of our monthly development update, which are intended to offer some insight into our development process, the things we are working on, new licenses we´ve acquired, and anything that we find to be interesting from a development perspective, not only for AMS2 but also other projects which are still active.

This past month we ran into this unusual overlap of working on the same tracks for both the “old” and the “new” sim, which seemed to me would make for an interesting bit of material in the dev update. Turns out that was a mistake, not only because the AMS2 footage on the 1st video was somewhat sloppily put together, but also because some people will scrutinize every second of a video to death to a wide variety of hasted conclusions in the meantime the whole context of the dev update it had been a part of was lost in the shuffle.

It´s the nature of these things - we are obviously dealing with a lot bigger expectations and attention for AMS2 and it may be that more discretion is in order, but eventually the sim will do its own talking and everyone will be able to judge for themselves

IMHO, another thing that Reiza should address is that there is a perception that, because you are using the Madness engine, the physics/FFB of AMS2 will be similar to Project Cars 2.

People love AMS1 in good part because of the physics/FFB and a lot of those same people loath Projects Cars 2 because of SMS' implementation of physics/FFB in the Project Cars 2 title.

I think that Reiza should reassure us that the physics/FFB in AMS2 is really a successor to AMS1 and not a successor to Project Cars 2.

 

[Tinifiori]

Don't worry Renato,
I don't understand some people here, judgin things like sharpen in a youtube video.
You are doing a great job, and we know that Reiza is a quality product, and when the game come out will enjoy for sure, and now I keep playing Automobilista 1 for years.

 

[Miguel Batista]

I have been having a blast in AMS1 recently. Thanks to having no VR on holliday, I found it a great opportunity to drive around in AMS1. Love the formula extreme cars, the boxer cup car is also unbelievably good and the stock cars are just fun! Now I need to git gud... I must confess that the DFGT does lack some details that I am used to in the TS-PC RACER... I still need to get used to driving it.

AMS2 will be amazing I am sure. And using the madness engine was the right move imho. It is capable of great things! Looking forward to your implementation of it!

 

[b)b]

Well yes, but in the original side-by-side AMS v AMS2 video, the AMS screen definitely still looked sharper.

AMS1 does not use Temporal Anti-Aliasing (TAA) which is employed in the Madness Engine. TAA can notoriously make things more blurry but takes care of much more than edge aliasing and necessary in modern DX11/12 engines. In AMS1, regular DX9 AA is employed for a super good and sharp result combined with NVIDIA specific AA settings (do not remember its technical denomination). Also, the road textures in AMS1 are absolutely top notch and Reiza mentioned doing something about them for AMS2. I've played quite a bit of AMS1 at 4K / 60 fps, with everything maxed out and the game looks super nice and crisp. Much more than it is given credit for by people dismissing it on that subject alone.