Analysis of the Course Maker.
Digital Foundry will be looking in-depth at Gran Turismo 5 later in the week, but in the meantime we’re planning a series of blog posts to celebrate the long-awaited launch of PS3’s most highly anticipated of sequels.
The first port of call for us when we received the game was to see just how Polyphony Digital had managed to implement a consumer-friendly course creator, bearing in mind how long it seems to take the developer itself to craft new circuits.
Polyphony calls this new mode the “Course Maker”, but “Track Editor” would have been a more apt description because, you don’t actually design the circuit at all. Instead, you feed the editor a range of variables and the code itself creates the track for you. From there you tweak the available values until you’re happy.