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This article makes me appreciate the balance struck in GTA.

IMHO this type of scene is better than any of the examples shown in the article:

http://prod.hosted.cloud.rockstargames.com/ugc/gta5photo/YjB...

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GTA's tone mapping is discussed at http://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/2015/11/02/gta-v-graphic... - including a couple of interesting "filmic tone mapping" links

I liked this enough to merit an addition to the write-up. It's not perfect but I'm seeing some great GTA 5 shots that are very nicely balanced overall. Doubly interesting given the substantial age of the game.

This picture is from a video game ?!

Look at the white brick pillars in the background behind the car; they're exactly the same. Some other stuff like the soda bottle pops out as well. It does look nice though.

I don't know if there's supposed to be some depth-of-field effect going on here, or what, but I find it really jarring that the resolution of the textures applied to objects in the scene are so different. The car and that one section of wall are super-sharp and high-resolution, then right next to them some of the trash is fuzzy, blurry lo-res textures.

well, yeah. do you have any idea how massive the world map is in GTA??? Of course they have to scale the textures.

In this case it seems it's some sort of DoF-Effect, since the lines between the objects seem to blur too.

Yes, there are mods out there that make GTA look like a photo-realistic adventure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cbL3HUqAJU

A more than four-year-old videogame, yes.

on last generation hardware too, though the screenshot in question might be taken one of the ports to more modern systems

It's from a computer, not a console.

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