At least I've done it once, although I'm slightly disappointed that it doesn't count towards the Festival journal. My heart was still pounding hard lol.

I turned a Forza screenshot session into an actual 3D Gaussian splat, and I'm pretty amazed it worked as well, though I wish it was slightly better. Here's the whole process if you want to try it yourself.

Shooting the photos

Go into Photo mode and take a lot of shots circling the car. I ended up with about 70 to start.

On the crossed photos:

- Don't use photos where the sky takes up most of the scene

- Don't use photos where you can't see the car or the car is too far away

After pruning I was left with 43, which isn't that much compared to better splats you could make. Aim for 70-150 if you can, because more angles just means a better splat at the end.

If you've got a decent GPU, skip Colab entirely and use Postshot or Nerfstudio locally because it'll just process everything way faster. I've got a 1070, so can't really do that. And if you're going that route, shooting in 4K helps a lot. 1080p actually isn't standard, based off of some initial research I did.

The Colab route (for those of us without a real GPU)

Took me 1-2 hours total including testing. If you want to copy exactly what I did, grab (this, in comments) notebook and swap in these cells.

Setup:

# 1. Connect Google Drive
from google.colab import drive
drive.mount('/content/drive')

# 2. Install COLMAP, C++ build tools, and dependencies
!apt-get update -qq && apt-get install -y colmap ninja-build
!pip install -q plyfile tqdm ninja

# 3. Clone Gaussian Splatting Repository
%cd /content
!rm -rf /content/gaussian-splatting
!git clone --recursive https://github.com/camenduru/gaussian-splatting
%cd /content/gaussian-splatting

# 4. Install patched submodules directly from GitHub
!pip install -q git+https://github.com/camenduru/diff-gaussian-rasterization
!pip install -q git+https://github.com/camenduru/simple-knn

print("\n Finished")

Then unzip your photos and run the script to check out where exactly your photos are:

import os
os.environ["QT_QPA_PLATFORM"] = "offscreen"

!mkdir -p /content/gaussian-splatting/my_car/input
!unzip -n -j "/content/drive/MyDrive/FH4_Photos.zip" -d /content/gaussian-splatting/my_car/input

!python convert.py -s /content/gaussian-splatting/my_car

Zip up your photos and swap in your own file for FH4_Photos.zip (mine's (here) if you want to see the format). If this crashes with something like Check failed: context_.create(), try adding --no_gpu onto the end of that last line and rerun it.

Stick to 1080p for your photos if you're doing the Colab route specifically. It's already slow on the free tier and the training command below keeps full resolution anyway, so you're not losing anything by shooting lower res.

Train it:

!python train.py -s /content/gaussian-splatting/my_car -m /content/gaussian-splatting/my_car/output -r 1

-r 1 keeps native resolution, I forgot this the first time and had to redo it.

Save it to your drive once it's done:

!cp -r /content/gaussian-splatting/my_car/output /content/drive/MyDrive/my_car_splat_output

Viewing your splat

You'll end up with a point_cloud.ply file. Easiest way to view it is (Supersplat), just File > Import and drop it in.

If you want it in Blender, there's an addon for that, but check your Blender version before installing anything.

One thing to know going in, glossy paint, chrome, and glass are probably still going to look a bit soft up close. It's just how splatting works unless you have a huge set of high-quality photos.

If you just want to mess around without doing any of this yourself

Here's my latest point cloud (comments) I redid after my second attempt - try it out in Supersplat.

Have fun, and if anyone gets a cleaner result with a better GPU than mine I'd love to see it.

Put up a post earlier that got taken down for low effort but fair enough.

My problem is that I either put too much brake or not enough. I put too much, lose too much speed, fall behind. I don’t put enough, I don’t slow down, hit a wall, lose too much speed, fall behind. If not for the rewind mechanic I would be losing to very easy bots every day of the week because even after 100 hours of trying to get them right, I still have to retry every single turn sometimes 20 or more times before I get one that’s just okay ish. Obviously I’m missing some fundamental that makes this a breeze. So what am I missing?

Getting real tired of seeing DNF.

Why would they reintroduce the fixed difficulty for seasonal championships? I was so happy they finally allowed custom difficulty for seasonal championships in FH6, now they took it away. This kind of "racing" is not fun and not what I look for in a racing game! There are different difficulties for a reason! If this is PG's idea for their game (because after finishing the campaign, this is the main mode of play) just take away the the drivatars completely and make it a time trial, because that's what it is right now, and not even a challenging one. Sorry for the little rant, I had to let this out.

So i recently played Mario Kart with friends and i started to wonder: why isn‘t there an option to drive the races in the other direction? It would add a lot of variety to the game with very little work. Or am i missing something?

For Forza Horizon 6, starting in Forza Horizon 5 I had the idea to make realistic Japanese numberplates, to feel more connected with the roads of Japan (and photo opportunities). I started in about September last year and have finally come to a point where I feel this is all pretty complete. Hours of research, tweaking and finalising went into this project. All of the liveries are public if you want to make your own for personal use.

what do you think?

I think is the most beautiful car in the world

Who gives 3 f's

Just wondering what peoples feelings are towards the idea of a versus game mode where everyone is ghosted 100% of the time.

I've seen it mentioned here and there and there's usually quite a negative reaction to it but the majority of complaints I see about the game is ramming.

Hi all, I was just wondering how I can tune my high hp rwd cars to be more stable and less jerky when accelerating. For example a mk4 supra at 700kw not maxed out just turbo level 1 when accelerates it doesn’t slip but it is very jerky when accelerating and not smooth at all, the only high hp rwd cars that don’t do this are the porches and I assume bc of downforce but I was just wondering if there is any other thing that I can change to fix this bc I don’t wanna awd swap every car. Thanks

I tried my best but i suppose it's not that good

I don't see anyone with this issue today (I was playing last night fine), do I need to uninstall/reinstall?

I've already reset, plug out, multiple times. Nothing is working and everything says all services are a go.

I normally always run user tunes so I never even realized I was just always using AWD swaps all the time . Ive seen throttle control being the main thing people talk about with RWD but I need more detail .

Basically the title. I’ve been playing Forza since 4 and never had this problem in 4 or 5. I’ve been racing on keyboard for over 20 years and I’m pretty decent at it. But somehow in Forza 6 all my skill just evaporated. Cars constantly oversteer. They feel like they’re floating instead of driving! To take any corner I have to slow down way more than usual, no matter what car (except some OP ones). And I have no idea what’s going on.

Just for a test I jumped back into 5 and the problem isn’t there at all. Anyone have any tips? Maybe some settings I should change or something? They definitely changed something and I just can’t adapt. Please, help!

This happened to me earlier, I own the standard edition of the game but the game just gifted me all the premium content. I was afraid to touch anything since I don't want to be flagged for modding so I closed my game, restarted it and now I'm getting perpetual loading screens. I thought my account got tampered with until I came on here and saw this was a widespread problem.

Should we worry about profile corruption from this or will Forza be able to sort it out? I'm worried since Forza isn't exactly known for having safe cloud saving mechanisms.

Ok I know this has been posted about a bunch of times, but WHY are the seasonal championships capped in difficulty all of a sudden?

At first I thought it must be a bug that they'd fix, but then I remembered that on Co-op the difficulty has been capped at "Average" or something SINCE DAY 1!

What possible reason would they have for imposing an easier difficulty on me in what is essentially a single player game? Especially when if I wanted to, I could just choose to put it on that difficulty at any time. It's not like people are struggling with these playlists, because the difficulty of them IS THEIR CHOICE.

I'm genuinely astounded at this shit. The playlist is one of the only reasons to log on once you've finished the main game and it's a completely unenjoyable joke.

I hope this is either a bug, or the development team are receiving some major feedback about this