When the interview talks about the early experiments with on foot stuff, I'm always reminded of the CM3 ramp with a figure from the Outsider- I always wondered if they went much further than a placeholder and had it running (excuse the pun) much earlier than we imagined.
New Odyssey Article - more on planet generation
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that did stick out for me, it's a great little article
Fascinating read, so every planet is going to look different, not just from the lighting perspective.
Very intrigued by the implications of the first paragraph, perhaps its also a building block preparation for things like trees, rivers and seas down the line.
"Where before we had a generator for rocky surfaces and one for ice surfaces which both took Stellar Forge inputs, we now have terrains and terrain materials of various different types and scales which are deterministically selected and blended together depending on the Stellar Forge driven properties of that planet."
Very intrigued by the implications of the first paragraph, perhaps its also a building block preparation for things like trees, rivers and seas down the line.
"Where before we had a generator for rocky surfaces and one for ice surfaces which both took Stellar Forge inputs, we now have terrains and terrain materials of various different types and scales which are deterministically selected and blended together depending on the Stellar Forge driven properties of that planet."
Yeah, it made for an interesting read! (And cheers for sharing the article!)I'm mostly interesting in the way they seem to be re-jigging the planetary generation - at the moment on long SRV journeys <cough> circumnavigations <cough> they can get a bit .. same-y. This sounds like they are going to be more interesting. I really like the image on the cover of the mag - really pops
Sounds to me like basically they're retaining all the subsurface stuff as it is, but improving how they extrapolate that out into the surface layer so that things are much more determined by a simulation of local conditions, than by body type.
That to me sounds like a good step forwards, and something that's going to be significant when it eventually come to more complex worlds where conditions vary hugely across location and time on the planet.
Hard to tell for sure, but it still seems very much in the realm of generating what are to all intents and purposes static surfaces rather than dynamic ones, but perhaps it's a step towards enabling the procgen of dynamic surfaces. Still a very long way to go on that particular front though I reckon.
Wow ... nice find, that was a fantastic read!
One part I found interesting (possibly more than planet gen tech) is this:
"more nuanced"
No idea what that means in this specific context (not that bothered by the idea we can barter for rewards; I'll take it, just don't think that's enough on its own to separate the two options). I'd love to think there will be a way to better drill down to missions you actually want but the quoted reply is pretty ambiguous (probably deliberately so).
If it's just thematic (talking to an npc from a faction and all that entails rather than interacting with a ui) then I'm not that bothered. I'll still be doing this, I just don't think the answer fully and clearly addresses the concern raised but equally suggests the potential for something great...
"more nuanced"
No idea what that means in this specific context (not that bothered by the idea we can barter for rewards; I'll take it, just don't think that's enough on its own to separate the two options). I'd love to think there will be a way to better drill down to missions you actually want but the quoted reply is pretty ambiguous (probably deliberately so).
If it's just thematic (talking to an npc from a faction and all that entails rather than interacting with a ui) then I'm not that bothered. I'll still be doing this, I just don't think the answer fully and clearly addresses the concern raised but equally suggests the potential for something great...
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Thanks Factabulous for posting this, it's a fantastic read and it got me a lot more excited about Odyssey.
Especially their explanation of how landable planets will be generated with the new tech, I'm realy eager to see this for myself.
I'm ready and convinced enough to pre-order Odyssey as soon as it's available for Xbox.
Exciting times ahead!
Especially their explanation of how landable planets will be generated with the new tech, I'm realy eager to see this for myself.
I'm ready and convinced enough to pre-order Odyssey as soon as it's available for Xbox.
Exciting times ahead!
This is the kind of 'meat' that builds on the very bare-boned information given us so far, and it is fascinating to read too!
I've already pre-ordered alpha, this snippet helps me feel more at ease with the decision
I've already pre-ordered alpha, this snippet helps me feel more at ease with the decision
Well, that didn't go in a direction I expected!
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It actually exactly what I was thinking about.
Instead of having a planet/personality type X, Y or Z you have a bunch of variables that fit more or less with the various 'types'. It explores the spaces between stereotypical cases, and it is these spaces that represent most of the variety we see in real life. Both for planets and personalities. Its the part I expect least from. I assume it'll be like geological hotspots, and two dozen or so basic types with some color/size variation.
I'm pretty sure Apex will only be used to travel to neighbouring systems, so trips will definitely take less than 4 hours. Enough to bring people to mission objectives and back to the mission givers but still remain limited to encourage people to get their own ship if they want more flexibility.
I doubt it's going to be a fade to black screen thing, most likely you'll just appear as a multicrew member on an NPC ship.
Yeah, I hope not.
Yes that's a concern, but the fact we haven't heard any great details yet indicates there may be more to come. For instance space life forms, transported across the galaxy by Guardians or Thargoids, or seeds drifting by themselves over 100,000's of even millions of years could spread across multiple systems, but planet borne life forms, specially in the far reaches of the galaxy, it would be bizarre to find the same life forms basically everywhere we traveled, surely life forms on previously unexplored planets should be unique to that planet.
And also the Codex, if life forms are more unique and varied how will the codex be changed to suit the new stuff, that's something I can't recall seeing mentioned anywhere, will the codex as it is now just continue into Odyssey? That's a question for the next AMA, although I must admit to never having asked a question because they all seem to start and end while I am sleeping!
Grow some potatoesJust a thought - what if a cmdr boards his friend's ship and then leaves it on some random planet and his friend leaves him there?
Then make Vodka!Grow some potatoes
This were fun at 90´s, it will be even more fun now that I have billions of credits already in my bank:
Just a thought - what if a cmdr boards his friend's ship and then leaves it on some random planet and his friend leaves him there?
Log out into the non-odyssey version, you will appear in orbit with the last ship you flew.