Imagein changeing disks half way through a race...lol that would be bad.

There are such things as lossless compression image formats, like PNG.  Storing all your textures as raw, uncompressed BMPs or TGAs just increases your load times, even on Blu-ray.

*disclaimor* This is just poking fun at what the quoted user said.

It wouldn't really work for racing games. I mean you'd have champoinships etc, that'd be made up of many tracks, and it would definately be a pain if you had to switch disks halfway through. Like CameronHall1 said, it only works well with linear-ish games.

Can we stop the discussion, they used dynamic lighting so they didn't need to duplicate textures for day and night, they didn't take anything out or compress anything further than they already did. Enough of this multiple disk stuff, it's not going to be on multiple disks.

rotfl XD

No lol, double the cost for developers to put it on the disc hehehe, but it wont cost you $59.99 probably $69.99 or even more.

multiple disks are fine with RPG games cause you only change the disk maybe 1 time over the entire game. but for a racing game that would be nutz as its not story driven and i could see a person having to switch the disk for specific settings and types of races. that is just dumb

LOL...

"You won’t see different times of day per city because this involves recreating all the textures again (one for day and one for night). Whilst this wasn’t a problem for our dev team, it was a problem fitting all this data onto a single DVD. So we’ve worked around the problem by providing different lighting models per city. For example, Macau is always in the daytime, but if you play it during a storm everything looks darker and more foreboding. If you play during a blizzard then things are slightly tinged blue and everything seems more frozen. Of course, playing this track in sunshine will make everything appear bright and yellowy"

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Lazy programming. You don't need to recreate entire texture sets to support TIME OF DAY!

(there are lots of ways to handle this on the fly - and it makes it much more interesting, as the time could change - if you wanted to - while you were driving on the level).

That is now officially the lamest reason I have ever heard for "running out of disc space". 

One DVD9 costs about 15 cents to manufacture. So it would still just cost $60, even with multiple discs..