I like the blur effect but a zoom-blur probably looks a bit better.
...and I agree with sivan, the game looks really dark.

Here's a graph which shows how much dark and bright colors are in a picture:
(taken from one of your screenshots)

x = brightness; y = amount of this brightness in the whole picture

you can clearly see that there are a lot of dark pixels but almost nothing above 50% brightness.
With this I don't want to say that you should make everything brighter but I think you could have
a better overall-balance between bright and dark colors.

maybe a tone-mapping post-processing shader? might distribute the brightness out a little more.

just a thought

Yes. I have to admit that is is darker than needed. I have been playing with gimp and there is a clear improvement proportionally moving that big amount of dark points to a brighter position.




but proportionally speaking, and taking the concept in mind, the most part of the pixels has to be in the third dark part of the histograma while the road (the playground) is a small proportion of the screen pixels, all the rest but signs is decoration.

@fogman
download

Finished with the speed up blur effect. It is less effective than the previous one, but it looks much better.



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here is a video with new dead vegetation, a gamma corrector included into the last render chain and the acceleration blur effect in motion!
VIDEO

Hi!

I finally found a perfect nornals backing process and finished the wheel of this vehicle.



It time to renew the other assets.

hi,
I did some tests for renewing the checkpoints





14 polygons

Wow, I really like the idea having the stats actually written on the checkpoint. Will they refresh in real-time? And the glowing effect is also great!

Thanks! They will refresh for sure

There is a little problem. In the moment you grab your time, you can't see the checkpoint panel xP
I'm thinking on a secondary vertical sign on the side of the road with the actual position and the lapse to the best time.

Thanks for the download link.
Man, that´s pretty cool! Please give me a first person view, oculus rift support and I´ll throw my money at you!

Do you already have one? O.o

txesmi, I am really amazed by your work lately, in terms of assets, your shader programming and cool ideas