SleepyDelegate's Chronicles - taking the DBX around the Galaxy

This HMC with atmosphere orbits another HMC with atmosphere and it does so every 4 hours... You can literally see it traversing... And because it moves so fast, the gravitational pull makes it a bit squashed...

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Romantic...

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This Class V gas giant is only 10ls from its star...

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what's 4k like?
Beautiful. :)

The reason why I started playing in 4K was, that on 27" monitor, even the UHD picture seemed a bit rough... Also, on such a big screen (I know there are bigger screens, just me sitting 40-50cm from the screen, 27" is big ;)) and while wearing my reading glasses, I could see so called "screen door" effect... A thin black lines between the pixels...

There was a cheaper option though - stop using my reading glasses while playing... :ROFLMAO:

So, to explain what is 4K like, you need first to understand why I went that route...

In order to show you the difference, I have made a couple of screenshots and tried to put them next to each other, but you need to take the result with a grain of salt - inn these pictures, you will not see a true representation of the different resolutions, I just switched my video output to UHD and FHD and took screenshots... The system is trying to utilize the abundance of pixels on the monitor and smoothens the rough edges a bit... Also, you will not be able to seethe screen door effect this way...

Hopefully the differences will be visible in the following pics...

Look at the planet details...

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Here look at the small details, like the circular vents on top of the cabin...

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Again look at small details, like planets and stars on the radar...

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One last thing: In order to keep decent framerate, I had to lower some details, so I guess if I maxed everything, it would look even better...

When everything is moving, you do not notice that much, but hen you stop and start looking around, the difference is huge...
 
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4K - very fine details...
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UHD - nice details, but the screen door effect on 27" monitor was annoying...
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FHD - never played in this resolution...
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4K
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UHD - it almost looks identical... Maybe I accidentally switched the screenshots... :)
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FHD - a huge difference... I would not play FHD on anything bigger than 19"... But that is because I have to war reading glasses... :)

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BTW, I pent couple of hours yesterday, trying to search for super giants and hyper giants in the Outer Arm sector... No luck, despite scanning roughly 2000ly x 100ly rectangle around my location... Of course, this is not a big area in any way, It was just quite painful to not see any giants at all... The day before yesterday, I searched for Giants and found two Orange Giants in half an hour... The method I am using:
1. go to galaxy map
2. switch to Realistic view
3. slowly traverse the map and look for a specific shape of a Giant star

After couple fo hours searching the map like this, I am already pretty confident in recognising different stars just by looking at their image, without having to switch to Map mode... The only thing that bothers me is Why doesn't the Realistic view show the star type? You always have to switch to Map mode..

Also, when the Galaxy map already knows what star types are those starts, why I cannot just filter Giants? I know I could open the pandora box and start asking a ton of other Why? :)
 
One day you complain, that there are no giants, the next day you cant get rid of them... :ROFLMAO:

Today almost every system I visited was somewhat interesting...

Red Giant 130ls from my ship...

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Interesting trio...

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Another Red Giant 560ls away while I fuel scoop its orbiting star...

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The first Class IV gas giant has 7 small moons, the first one has only 159km, the biggest one, the last one, has 257km...

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And last, but not least, two Blue Super Giants...

Here I am, 1600ls away, fuel scooping...

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And here, I am already 30.000ls away, which is 60x the distance between Earth and the Sun...

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Another Red Giant today, this time with landable planet orbiting nearby... Of course duty dictates landing...
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This is by far the smallest body I have found in my 7 months exploration: only 145km

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Duty and me being tired called for landing and calling it a day... In the sky above you can see that Gas Giant with its moons and Andromeda Galaxy... The ringed body this MRB orbits is not visible in this picture...

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I must say your shots always looks so amazing! Which graphics card are you using?

Thank you! I honestly cannot see that much of a difference, when looking at your shots... I would argue that some of yours are better... :) But generally this is what I always try to keep in mind, when taking screenshots:
  • composition
  • bit of depth and if possible some bokeh, but that is mostly difficult, as the tools provided for the external camera, where you can adjust the focus and bokeh are not that useful and usually produce a cartoonish results...
  • golden cut ratio (I try, Im not saying I apply it 100%)
Regarding my graphics card: it is a 1660Ti (I play on a gaming laptop with external monitor at the moment). I play in 4K for the reasons I explained above (I wear reading glasses and my previous monitor produced some screen door effect when using reading glasses).
 
The day before yesterday, I searched for Giants and found two Orange Giants in half an hour... The method I am using:
1. go to galaxy map
2. switch to Realistic view
3. slowly traverse the map and look for a specific shape of a Giant star

I have just developed a new method for finding Giants and high mass systems in general:
1. go to the Galaxy map
2. Zoom away so that it takes roughly 2-3 seconds to traverse 100x100ly square
3. Switch to Realistic mode
4. Traverse the map in a systematic way (I'll leave the system up to you, but I usually traverse around 5000ly in sequential 1s long steps in one direction, then turn 90 degree, move roughly 400ly and again turn 90 degree to go back in the reverse direction back towards my original destination, doing sort of a zig zag pattern)
5. Look for dots on the background, that are hardly moving, while all the other dots are moving quite fast as you move... These are usually big Giant stars or massive systems... You do not even need to look for that specific shape of a Giant, which is usually difficult to spot in a denser areas... All you need to do is look for dots that hardly move...

The reason why this works is, that the Galactic map draws these big systems even when they are very far away, unlike the smaller system, which are usually drawn shortly before you move past them, therefore they move much faster, than these distant objects, that are big and drawn much sooner than the rest...

Works for me... (y) ;)
 
Couple of interesting systems today, mostly A, B and O systems and a black hole with two orbiting B stars...

I have found one system with four GG and one Y dwarf. 2 GG and that dwarf had moons, all of them had Bio signals. Went to check, whether there is a chance to find various bio signals on one body...

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No luck, all three moons had the same pumpkins...

Decided to leave...

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A glorious day for an explorer today... I have found a system with Class IV Gas giant with wide ring, orbited by Gas giant with Amonia based life, orbited by other three moons, of which two of them are orbiting each other quite closely...

The width of the ring is visible from 5000ly, and probably even more...

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Dropping inside of the ring cost me 4% of my hull... I dont know how to safely drop in a ring that you cannot target lock... As you can see, I am at the edge of the ring and the Gas giant is 60ls away from me...

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Pure beauty...

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I would have attempted to land of that asteroid, but I dont have strong shields and I dont want to die...

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Look, a moon! And another moon! And a parent body in the background! (actually, you can only see the ring of that GG - that faint shadow around the ring of the GG with Amonia life)

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I spent an hour in this system...
 

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