iRacing member said:
I may be totally insane, but watching from 7:45 to the next shot in the same place... kinda looks like the sun came down a bit, and the lighting changed. Maybe it's just me being too hopeful for Day / Night Trans. but I definitely notice SOMETHING.
Edit - Nevermind, looks like they just cut between a screen cap, and a real camera. DANG IT!
We can dynamically move the sun and time of day now. That is not the problem. It is all the associated graphics work like doing all the shaders, shadows, lighting/clouds properly and all that goes with it. However so we don't have to do a lot of this work over again in the near future, first we decided to upgrade to DX11 and while doing that graphics engine upgrade it is also pretty straight forward to also port to the OpenGL graphics engine so doing that as well. Along with having better graphics and graphic options with these graphic engine upgrades in the future, it also opens up lot of things for us if we want like running native on linux and mac etc.
Cheers.
(We are also working on a similar video piece like this on building a car in iRacing, featuring the BMW GT car. )