What do you think about it? Now BF1 has dark brown tyres, and tyres doesn't look good. And.. any chance to have shiny tyres?

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What do you think about it? Now BF1 has dark brown tyres, and tyres doesn't look good. And.. any chance to have shiny tyres?

The reason we don't have shiny textured tyres, is because LFS sacrifices its looks in this regard for better physics - tyre deformation means that the tyres have to be generated in real time and as such they cannot be reflective. As for the tyre colour, you can change it by editing the appropriate DDS file.

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deformation has nothing to do with the missing reflections on the tyres ... the reson is simply that lfs doesnt support bump mapping or shaders atm

I think the reason is rather that it's either a DX9 shader effect only (LFS runs DX8), or that Scawen simply hasn't bothered with such graphical details yet. I doubt tyre deformation is a problem here.

E: beaten ^^^

but i think it is possible, that S3 will run with dx9 :moped:

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The reason we don't have shiny textured tyres, is because LFS sacrifices its looks in this regard for better physics

You can edit the shininess of the way light refracts off an object as far back as DX7, you dont need shaders for a shininess effect. It's a good suggestion, +1.

S3 will probably use DX10 or even 11.

Quote from alliennas :

What do you think about it? Now BF1 has dark brown tyres, and tyres doesn't look good. And.. any chance to have shiny tyres?

a) if they look brown, you are either using rally tyres or have the colours screwed up on your monitor
b) only new tyres would be shiny, so if done properly the effect wouldn't last long anyway - to be added with visual tyre wear

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tyre deformation means that the tyres have to be generated in real time and as such they cannot be reflective.

Not at all true.. When you dynamically create the mesh, you can also generate the normals and get lighting effects.