The moon may require more "content" from past lore over the years. Such as Space:1999's "moonbase alpha", 2001:'s monolith excavation and clavius moon bases with their converging petal massive docking bay (wasn't this in Frontier and FFE?). then the wierd stuff on the "dark side" of the moon. Maybe actually found out to be guardian ruins and barnacles.
when will the moon be landable?
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i know it takes a long time to create, but they have been working since 2.0 on it, and if they where smart, since 1.0
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Whoops!...'don't know how I made that mistake! 'Embarrassed & that!
There are some nice features in the system...Ariel is awesome among many other things, but just pay a visit & have a 'poke around'
July1967yeah 1969 - I did a boo-boo. Sorry
Pah no one believes that! Men on the moon? Do me a favour, all fakery
Pah no one believes that! Men on the moon? Do me a favour, all fakery
Good trick then.
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Hilarious film -and even better knowing a friend was involved in the final CGI scene with the space craft. Even better than that; he's an Elite fan and has a ED account. [heart]
Haha indeed!
I bet when we do finally get there we will be like Strangers in a Strange Land.
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It's trade marked by America..... probably
This land is my land
It isn't your land!
I've got a shotgun
And you don't got one!
If you don't get off
I'll blow your head off!
This land is PRIVATE PROPERTY!
*racks shotgun* Now get off my moon.
Technically simple in that it will apply the observed lunar height maps, which will mean FDEV just copies and paste existing data. The issue is the resolution of said data and how low res it will look like when you get up close to the surface, space engine seems to have this issue when rendering the earth, moon and the solar system that has real topological data. I assume that the further development into planet technology like that displayed at the Elite dangerous feature reveal and road map where they showed the Ice planet. If they achieve justice to the concept art, it will make the moon worthwhile.
Low resolution is easily solved using fractal algorithms, something ED already has. The real problem lies with the surface of the moon. It's not a solid rock like all the other planets we land on. It's more like thick powder, like walking on the beach rather than on pavement. That requires a bit of additional graphical and physics work. Stains built up on the SRV from kicking up all the sandy surface, sand shooting out of the tires if you drive to fast, sand getting stuck in the tire treads, sliding around and creating large detailed tire trails in the ground, etc. From the ED Beyond conference, it's clear that FDev has put a lot more work into texturizing planets. They also want to do better ice planets and make them more authentic, which means they have to work on snowy and icy surfaces. This would mean they have to work on the sand/snow physics problem. Assuming they solve that problem without taking shortcuts, then they should have everything they need to open up the moon to the public and give us a close approximation. But, we will see. If they can pull it off, it's going to open up a lot more possibilities with their terrain engine.
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