One of the India tracks features a tea plantation with a sprinkler system that turns off and on at set times during the day.You’ll see flies and butterflies only during the day, and moths and bats only at night. Wildlife is realistically tied into the day/night cycle.The team consulted botanists at Kew Gardens to learn which plants would naturally grow in each location. There are over 100 different varieties of trees, bushes, mosses and flowers.Some tracks boast over 1.2 million road-side trees – and this number keeps going up as the artists try to out-do each other as development progresses.The team sampled the colour and intensity of individual streetlights, house lights and even camera flash bulbs, which you’ll see best in any of the Indian tracks at night. All environmental light sources are independently generated with different properties.Distant landscapes are built out and fully modelled, instead of ‘painted on’, to ensure that they support the dynamic, volumetric nature of the skies and lighting. Each location has a draw distance of up to 200km to the horizon and even simulates the curvature of the earth in both skies and terrain.Stones and bitumen are all placed and then rendered procedurally to give realistic surface detail with huge visual variety and no repeating detail on any road surface. Road tarmac textures are hand-modelled rather than tiled or tessellated.They captured thousands of photos and recordings along the way, in all weather conditions and different times of day. The team spent weeks out on location and covered a minimum of 200km every day to get a feel for each country’s roads and atmosphere.
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