Codemasters today unveiled new visual improvements for F1 2019. As such, you can find below the visual evolution of night lighting through comparison screenshots between F1 2018 and F1 2019.
Stuart Campbell, Art Director of F1 2019 , said:
“Improving night lighting was one of our visual priorities for F1 2019. We were inspired by the atmosphere system introduced in F1 2018 for the daylight and we adapted it to the night runways. We now have a complete atmospheric haze on the night circuits, which gives a real impression of depth. There is a lot of dust in the air on these tracks, at night the particles interact with the lighting on the ground. These particles help create an atmosphere and bring more realism. We have added volumetric lighting to the floor lighting, which has the effect of knocking out the light cones from the light sources, which is another key factor in making night lighting more realistic.. Finally, we added the concept of reflection of light. It was not present at all in the previous games and it gave the decorations of night a reliefless appearance as well as a strange aspect to the surfaces. This reflection of light has significantly improved the quality of the tracks at night. You can now admire all the details that are on the surface of the tracks, invisible until then. The painting of vehicles is particularly good on circuits at night. Reflections from the street lights on the cars really make it very good and are incredibly close to the Formula One TV shows.”
F1 2019 includes all the official teams and drivers of the 2019 season, as well as the 21 circuits of the championship. This year, the F2join the game and players will be able to participate in the 2018 FIA Formula 2 Championship . The F2 2019 Championship will be added during the season as an update to download for free.
F1 2019 releases on June 25th.
Enjoy!
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It almost looks like the 2018 has been purposely modded to look worse than it does, to make the 2019 version look better.
There’s no way there’s that big of a difference in just one year.
If you have played the game, it does look like that in the screenshot. As for 2019, I have no idea.
All they did was add some volumetrics and some bloom. It’s really not that different. Although these small effects can have a big difference.
Specular reflections were completely absent before, apparently. Hard to believe but it looks that way from the screenshots. I would honestly not be surprised if they doctored the 2018 screens by disabling specular reflections and or bloom altogether when in reality it was just more subtle then. Games don’t ship without bloom in this decade, that’s absurd.
Well actually yes, but no!
The game is that dark.
I’m baffled to see the difference. Can’t wait to spin my car around with this game.
F1 2018 night races looked last gen.
So more lights shafts and brightness +50%
Much better lighting and reflections!
disgusting if thats how 2018 looked…so f*king bad.
Imo it’s a massive difference if you have HDR in F1 2018.
the comparison really is the worst case scenario for 2018 and best for 2019
still gonna buy i guess