News Sneak Peek - Europa from orbit

Toumal

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Ziljan said:
Just watched Europa Report again, yesterday :) It doesn't get much cooler than this. Thank you David!!! Can't wait to drill through the ice in some future update and see what "swims up to lick the camera."
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Oh god Europa report... that looked so amazing until they went down... the entire landing scene looked totally wrong in terms of scale. They clearly had no grasp how big planets are in relation to orbital heights.


[video=youtube;31r09q0K6gw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31r09q0K6gw[/video]
 
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Basically.
 

Ziljan

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Anyone else notice the planetary coordinates there? Lat/Long will will come in handy to mark down for some treasure locations :)
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Also, the 3rd bottom number below the coordinates is the ratio of gravity to 1 g. It was also visible in the Vulture Oasis video and was equal to 1.0G. In the Europa video it starts off at 0.0G and grows to 0.1G. On the surface, it should eventually become 1.3G
 

Colonel Kenney

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Toumal said:
Oh god Europa report... that looked so amazing until they went down... the entire landing scene looked totally wrong in terms of scale. They clearly had no grasp how big planets are in relation to orbital heights.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31r09q0K6gw
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I don't think they'll be able to make the surface of Europa as rough and detailed as that.

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Sysmon said:
"All this belongs to you. Except Europa...".

Clarke was wrong. Looks lovely!

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Clarke didn't write about Europa... nor Jupiter. It was changed for the movie.
 

Katie Byrne

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awesome sneak peek. To me it looks a little too 'purple' though in comparison to how europa looks IRL. It could just be me though.

very excited to see it in game next week :D
 

Ziljan

Ziljan
Toumal said:
Oh god Europa report... that looked so amazing until they went down... the entire landing scene looked totally wrong in terms of scale. They clearly had no grasp how big planets are in relation to orbital heights.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31r09q0K6gw
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I think it's more a question of time scales than spatial scales. They never actually show the lander approaching the planet with any useful reference scale, and only show it touch down from the inside of the ship. They do this in other parts of the movie as well, abbreviating time periods that are quoted as taking "20 minutes", but only occupy ~2 minutes of movie time.
 
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Let's see. Gravity is GMM/R2. GMM will be a constant, so we can ignore that. X/R2 is 1.34 where R = 1560.8 km. Distince in the video is 1.76 Mm up, so 1,760 km. Not sure if that's altitude or radius. If it's radius then the ratio would be 1/1561^2 : 1/1760^2 or
2,435,721 : 3,097,600 or approx. 78.7%.

78.7% of 1.34 is 1.05. Sweet. Gravity calculations work!


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Let's see. Gravity is GMM/R2. GMM will be a constant, so we can ignore that. X/R2 is 1.34 where R = 1560.8 km. Distince in the video is 1.76 Mm up, so 1,760 km. Not sure if that's altitude or radius. If it's radius then the ratio would be 1/1561^2 : 1/1760^2 or
2,435,721 : 3,097,600 or approx. 78.7%.

78.7% of 1.34 is 1.05. Sweet. Gravity calculations work!


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That seems uncalled for. Not sure what to make of that.
 

Herik

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CMDR Burnes of the 15th said:
awesome sneak peek. To me it looks a little too 'purple' though in comparison to how europa looks IRL. It could just be me though.

very excited to see it in game next week :D
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Watch out saying things like that; -already planets are greyed too much in this galaxy. You'll ruin it for everyone else.
 
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Let's see. Gravity is GMM/R2. GMM will be a constant, so we can ignore that. X/R2 is 1.34 where R = 1560.8 km. Distince in the video is 1.76 Mm up, so 1,760 km. Not sure if that's altitude or radius. If it's radius then the ratio would be 1/1561^2 : 1/1760^2 or
2,435,721 : 3,097,600 or approx. 78.7%.

78.7% of 1.34 is 1.05. Sweet. Gravity calculations work!


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That seems uncalled for. Not sure what to make of that.


sorry , it was leg pulling , should have added a LOL
it actually baffled me to tell the truth
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nexxo

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Herik said:
Watch out saying things like that; -already planets are greyed too much in this galaxy. You'll ruin it for everyone else.
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I think that there is too much brown. Frontier really needs to lay off the brown palette a bit. And fix the system lighting to reflect the colour of the star. Otherwise looking good.

EDIT: I just keep watching that video over and over and over...

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Katie Byrne

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Herik said:
Watch out saying things like that; -already planets are greyed too much in this galaxy. You'll ruin it for everyone else.
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well yeah but what i mean is that ice is very white. It reflects light very well. The surface in the sneak peak looks very matt and purple. I'm not saying its a problem, it could just be an art direction choice. It was just an observation. Obviously none of us have seen it 'in game'.
 
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