Awsome plant on Elite is Ugly on Elite Horizons :(

LAYNOR LUNA LAGOONA

LAYNOR LUNA LAGOONA
Here is the same planet in the 2 different version of the game:

Here, Elite: with very orange planet
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and Then Horizon.... grey....
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such a disapointment... :(
 
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VR Golgot

VR Golgot
No worries, there's a ton of metallics that look like the orangey one, only more gnarly as you dive in.

Turns out the Stellar Forge system etc just decided this one was more 'meh' when the extra info was layered in. Shop around, you'll find better :)
 

MottiKhan

MottiKhan
Jaffz said:
Your cockpit colour scheme is far more disturbing
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+1.

As for the planet, the Horizons one looks like a higher resolution pic than the Elite one. The orange looks washed out and saturated there. If the op's screenshots are the measure we're to use, Horizons is an improvement over Elite.
 

Sentenza

Sentenza
Interesting. Not only color changed, even the surface is entirely different. I suspect landable planets need to have a simpler surface, and therefore it was changed.
 

cmdr awesome

cmdr awesome
Sentenza said:
Interesting. Not only color changed, even the surface is entirely different. I suspect landable planets need to have a simpler surface, and therefore it was changed.
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The opposite. Landable planets must have more detail because you get slightly closer to them
 

PiLhEaD

PiLhEaD
I hate to be 'that guy', but I prefer the look of the Horizon's planet by a country mile. - it looks more real to me.
 

Noddie

N
Can I ask how far apart in time they were taken? - certain stellar effects can effect colours.


To be honest, though. If I had to guess i'd say it's to do with the fact that planets can be explored in Horizons, so they've perhaps with drawn some colouring effects that it was hard to keep consistent between "spaceflight" and "Landing" modes. This planet does not appear landable, but perhaps they have to make the same changes for all planets?


I learned today that the French for fuel is "Carb"- hence "Carburettor", I'm guessing. Wonder if it has any link to "Carbon" - which was usually obtained from used fuel (ie Ashes).
 

Sentenza

Sentenza
cmdr awesome said:
The opposite. Landable planets must have more detail because you get slightly closer to them
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The two things are not mutually exclusive. Look at the first image - it has enormous ring craters and distinctive features. The second one, though, has just lots of identical small craters. So i believe this new, boring configuration is more suitable for a procedurally generated surface.
 
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