NHL 15 Screenshots - American Airlines Center & Rogers Arena

[Jattbreed]

Once again, the NHL 15 stadiums forgot to pay their electricity bills completely.

[csamuelsvt]

I believe some parts are dark due to the framerate.

[mt8732]

Yea the lighting for all these arenas is the same. Looks like a laker game at staples. At a blue jackets game the whole place is lit up even the nosebleeds. If its frame rate then use lower res crowd for upper deck or something

[bigwill33]

Exactly, there is no point in rendering 19000 fans if 14000 of them are in pitch black and can't be seen anyway. The beautiful banners and artistic designs that make these arenas unique are lost in the drab lighting effects. They spent all that time on these beautiful arenas, finally, only to blindfold nearly 1/3 to 1/2 of their work.

[spidertour02]

Quote: Originally Posted by bigwill33

Exactly, there is no point in rendering 19000 fans if 14000 of them are in pitch black and can't be seen anyway. The beautiful banners and artistic designs that make these arenas unique are lost in the drab lighting effects. They spent all that time on these beautiful arenas, finally, only to blindfold nearly 1/3 to 1/2 of their work.

I highly doubt that the quality of the crowd in the nosebleeds is the same as the quality of the crowd right against the glass. The reason it's dark in the upper areas of every arena is so that they can hide the lower-quality models of the crowd and save CPU resources.

[Segagendude]

I'm just spit-balling here, but perhaps the darkened parts of the arenas due to framerate issues, is due partly because of added refs on the ice?

I.E., if they still had the lone ref, there'd be that much more resources freed for crowd renders?

I dunno.

[hawley088]

you guys realize how often you will see the upper areas of these arenas when actually playing the game right? hardly ever

[hogfanhw81]

Too many fans in the AAC! They rarely (if ever) sell out. Seriously though as others stated it looks spot on.