Elite Dangerous: Horizons - How to Make a Real World Livestream on our official YouTube Channel 7PM BST 14th Oct

NeilF

NeilF
Aerodeon said:
Having just been riveted to the entire Cosmos series with Carl Sagan on DVD, I'd agree with you entirely.
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I've got plenty of time for Brian Cox... But Carl Sagan's Cosmos for me, still stands head and shoulders above any other similar TV series.

When I did my A level computing project, and everyone else was doing filing systems and the like and I did a gravity simulator so you could show the paths of planetary objects etc, it was because of a specific episode in Cosmos (I think I even got the specific formula from the book if I recall?)! Infact when I was a kid, I even wrote to Carl Sagan because of that TV series/book!
 
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Dr Wookie

Dr Wookie
Angus said:
I was very impressed with the presentation, and not bothered about the technical hiccup on the stuttering - but a question: At 29 minutes or so we go to another video and feldspar and limestone are mentioned. I have to point out, I don't know what I'm talking about, but isn't limestone strongly associated with ancient marine life - or is that not necessarily so? Just, as they say, asking. :)

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stunningly stunning and amazingly amazing. :)
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For ancient marine life, just add water :p! They also said that liquid water comes with an atmosphere, so I don't think we'll see life any time soon. Having said that, DB pointed out that the vast majority of humans in ED will be extra-terrestrial, since they were not born on earth :D.

That demonstration was awesome to behold, in the truest sense... I can't wait to get out there!
 

who?

who?
Skizomeuh said:
I totally see FD's tech ans simulation being used for professional or educational applications.
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Every time the BBC (or whoever) need some footage to go with a science story from NASA/ESA, they can just call up Frontier to do a high res fly-by / landing / drive by of the relevant part of the galaxy.

Unless it's Mars. Oops.
 

Cmdr Frawd Digger

Cmdr Frawd Digger
Thanks Guys for the amazing footage...I am so looking forward to playing Horizons!!

As a dedicated explorer I can't imagine how much this is going to slow down my galactic exploration... ;)

Frawd
 

CmdrJacks

CmdrJacks
Oheck said:
So the generation of these planet surfaces...does the persistent information for that procedural surface exist prior to someone discovering it, or does the act of discovering it trigger that generation? Would make the discovering of it even more meaningful, in its way, if so.
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If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it does one hand clapping cook the meal a long time ago?

Think of PG as a collection of seed values which then get fed in to algorithms to produce desired effects, in this case, terrain. Seed values might be things representing initial mass, composition, age etc etc. Then someone at FD kicks a genius until he creates maths based on real forces like gravity and solar winds that "evolves" a planet (or 100 billion).

So the answer is no... and yes... and kind of.

hunvagy said:
And without the infernal pings please :D But have to agree, the fottage was really awesome. I had flashbacks to good old VistaPRO from ages ago, but it was nowhere near as awesome as your terrain generation.
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I have memories of waiting several hours for my animation of a canyon flight on Mars to render. All from a 880k floppy coverdisk. Good times.
 

Matt Dickinson

Head of Technical Art- Elite: Dangerous
Frontier
Edward Lewis said:
I promised I would! It was quite enjoyable actually... I might do it again in future ;)
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Yah was good fun :) Sorry if we missed any questions in our area, there were a lot of gameplay questions which obviously are better answered by other people :)

The teams feeling really excited having seen the positive reaction from the work we showed off.
 

Edward Lewis

Edward Lewis
Thanks for watching everyone! Really enjoyed it, but what I enjoy even more is that you enjoyed it. Stop saying enjoy...

Anyway, your enthusiasm and support for the stream was noticed here, so hopefully we'll get to do some more of them in the lead up to Horizons!

Good stuff. More info soon!
 

rootsrat

Volunteer Moderator
rootsrat
Matt inson said:
Yah was good fun :) Sorry if we missed any questions in our area, there were a lot of gameplay questions which obviously are better answered by other people :)

The teams feeling really excited having seen the positive reaction from the work we showed off.
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This man needs more rep!

Thanks for your time guys, it was great to see the progress and listen to how you've achieved it.

I mean, tectonic plate movements! C'mon on, that's just ridiculous - in a most positive way!
 

Bomba Luigi

Bomba Luigi
Have watched it now and it looks awesome! You guys at FD doing a great Job, would like to see more streams like that in the Future!

But I have to say, I will give my best to find a planet where the BGS has messed something up and created a Planet that should not be able to exist :D
 

Barking_Mad

Barking_Mad
Matt inson said:
Yah was good fun :) Sorry if we missed any questions in our area, there were a lot of gameplay questions which obviously are better answered by other people :)

The teams feeling really excited having seen the positive reaction from the work we showed off.
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Please pass on my thanks to all the hard working people behind the scenes who don't get much rep. I hope moments like this help to make up for the hard graft!
 
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Duckfather

Duckfather
I'd like to add my congrats to the Team! Watched the catchup vid last night and was blown away by it! My hype-meter has now exploded ;)
 
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