I don't like the new ice worlds.
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A monstrous crater and all of these ice canyons inside, and some life too.
I think the reason we have the lighting problem where things are so extremely dark is because it help sells the fake image of things looking really deep and sharply cut from orbit. It literally makes the black shadows emphasise what really isn’t that spectacular when you come up close.
Can you all please add the system/planet if you post a good shot? It would be extremely helpful in order to confirm what they look like on various settings.
Is there a list anywhere of supposedly good-looking planets, hopefully with fauna as well?
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No screenshots from like...in that yoghurt stuff? Looks like (based on everything else) it's probably about 200-300m high, right?
Am I the only one who thinks that... these canyon walls look a bit... old? Like I think they could have done better than this. Thought it was better in Horizons personally. Rougher edges and all of that.
It does look like crap, but unless you know the graphic settings and the snapshot settings it's hard to say.
@Ydiss what are your settings? Is your terrain slider maxed out?
That's because you're looking at a relatively low-resolution heightmap, which made up the entirety of outdoor terrain in games 15 or so years ago.
These days you can get nicer terrain meshes and stuff that let you cram in lots of detail where you need it most and less detail where it's not necessary. It looks old because it's a very old technology but frontier can't hand-craft millions of entire planets, and evidently using various algorithms to generate and modify a heightmap is the best solution they've found so far.
Now why can't they get something that looks more like Terragen or Geocontrol 2 or even Red Dead Redemption? Memory limitations I guess? That's beyond my knowledge.
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As everyone has repeatedly told me all those beautiful Rdr2 environments are handcrafted. Fdev just procgens everything.
Hi They can always upgrade to Horizons
In the planets where it actually renders properly for me - I can see some nice textures up close. But from above there are very repetitive textures showing up in every single planet. I can see the same texture in other people's screenshots... even in the store page screenshots - once seen cannot be unseen.
I was a little fanboying out on Elite Dangerous Odyssey because I really loved Horizons but with Odyssey I am starting to develop a love-hate relationship for example I like the darker cockpit and hangar but by visiting a couple of star systems and planets there is definitely a texture pattern that keeps repeating. I start to get the Godfather feeling "Look at how they massacred my boy". In Horizons the planets looked more harsh and rugged with sharper textures... more natural while in Odyssey its the opposite. I just hope its a bug and not the developers intentions at all. Even the stars in a system looks darker... like when I look at a sun in Horizon you can feel yourself going blind while in Odyssey its just a dark orange ball floating in the distance. I feel like I've fallen in a trap by rushing and defending Odyssey. The more I play it the more I see you guys are right. I just really hope the developers feel the same way and will do something about it.
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Hope so too...how do you think White knights, who say that it looks amazing, will respond to that...oh...we told you they will fix everything...
I'll just leave that here : snow planet, promised above, delivered below.
Source reddit :
As for ice planet, this is what was promised, artwork this time :
This is what I had :
The cliff middle left have a serious case of texture stretching to.
Source reddit :
As for ice planet, this is what was promised, artwork this time :
This is what I had :
The cliff middle left have a serious case of texture stretching to.
All we can hope for is that the tech isn't fully implemented or there is some bug somewhere, because some terrain in these screenshots does look decent (although I haven't seen much)
If you feel like something feel free to say, and otherwise
. I do think there is a texture bug, even my Dolphin is showing grey in the welcome screen and its been there since Alpha.Yes, two weeks to fix it between last Alpha and release simply wasn't enough and lets be fair too, when they announced the console release in autumn it basically said we're beta testing the product. I don't have an issue with that if they said this is what they would do.
There are lots and lots of canyons spanning the whole planet, some big enough to hide a fleet carrier, others more narrow.
Here's the planet from orbit. Needed to resize the picture because of that 1mb limit here...:
I'll hop into the cockpit and shoot on.
Also: I didn't post these pictures to prove a point or anything. I was just happy about the canyons!
I can tell you that some textures up close look very good which is nice. But flying over ...you can get some good screenshots if the sun is setting ... otherwise terrain looks like pile of you know what especially when looking at horizons as as an indicator for the fly over visuals