And maybe I don't have the science, but why is a yellow star producing a white reflection?
New Planet Tech is KILLER of Exploration (all terrain is tiling/repeating/not procedural/random)
- Thread starter BlackMaze
- Start date
And maybe I don't have the science, but why is a yellow star producing a white reflection?
I look frequently. All of which have been 'debunked' effectively for the activities discussed.
Again stop just repeating yourself unless you can produce something actually related to the discussion or you simply lose any credibility and just sound like a white knight trying to cover up legitimate issues for a lot of players.
I think it's the resolution of the landscape updating dynamically as you get closer to it, so the hills get more defined as more points are added. I actually don't mind this too much as it's fairly seamless, but I think everything needs to be an extra level of detail to begin with for it not to look silly.Textures?
I had small hills raising or flattening in front of me as I was flying low.
I assumed it's a common bug, don't know why actually
What do you mean debunked?
I guess you barely played then.
Attachments
Not sure if this has been spotted before. When standing in ship lights, player casts no shadow.
As in already been checked out and shown to not the terrain that people are looking for.
And what terrain theyre looking for?
Would deffo be considered a mountain in Australia..... Oh wait!!
They modelled planets on Australia topography! I've discovered the secret seed used for planet gen now!!!
I'm calling it!!
![[VR] Merkir](https://forums-cdn.zaonce.net/data/avatars/m/141/141091.jpg?1553527154){kind=avatar}
Dr. Ross answered this, highlighted below:
"Q: So you've built the galaxy, how do you go about the finer details?"
"So, the last time we did a talk on this, I went into how planets start not as spheres but as cubes, with square patches that make up the cubes. Everything then becomes a sphere and an offset is generated to represent terrain. For Horizons, that terrain is generated entirely mathematically. There was a lot of effort put into representing the kind of shapes a hill or canyon makes, just using maths."
Source:
Planetary Tech with Dr Kay Ross: Recap
Greetings Commanders! Last week, we were joined on stream by the fantastic Dr Kay Ross to answer some of your questions regarding planetary tech and the changes coming in Elite Dangerous: Odyssey! If you missed it, you can watch the entire stream on YouTube - but we're also going to give you a...
Dr. Ross answered this, highlighted below:
"Q: So you've built the galaxy, how do you go about the finer details?"
"So, the last time we did a talk on this, I went into how planets start not as spheres but as cubes, with square patches that make up the cubes. Everything then becomes a sphere and an offset is generated to represent terrain. For Horizons, that terrain is generated entirely mathematically. There was a lot of effort put into representing the kind of shapes a hill or canyon makes, just using maths."
Source:
Planetary Tech with Dr Kay Ross: Recap
Greetings Commanders! Last week, we were joined on stream by the fantastic Dr Kay Ross to answer some of your questions regarding planetary tech and the changes coming in Elite Dangerous: Odyssey! If you missed it, you can watch the entire stream on YouTube - but we're also going to give you a...forums.frontier.co.uk
So tiling is a straight up downgrade then for terrain generation....
Hi, Mathematicians costs more than artists OK?!
Man I almost spat my coffee lol
Well, they mentioned planetary tech in the patch notes. Not this patch, but they acknowledged it.
Err, no, Horizons is procgen - apart from POIs and the immediate vicinity. That's the whole point of this thread - read the OP for details, but the basic summary is that someone at FDev said with great pride that they were now going to have handcrafted bits of scenery added to the game. So they weren't there before. And now they are, we have the inevitable visible tiling effect. That's a problem for many players, including this one.
Err, no, Horizons is procgen - apart from POIs and the immediate vicinity. That's the whole point of this thread - read the OP for details, but the basic summary is that someone at FDev said with great pride that they were now going to have handcrafted bits of scenery added to the game. So they weren't there before. And now they are, we have the inevitable visible tiling effect. That's a problem for many players, including this one.
Err, yes.
Yes, I posted a thread specifcally about that.LOD bug after today's patch.
I tried to force better LOD in-game and by using Nvidia tweaks (even hidden ones using Nvidia profiler), but it just stays like this.
I haven't had anything like this lately.
Did they just break something even more?
I really hope it's not the case.
Textures not loading in at ground level?
I know it's early and my first planet since patch, but I've not seen this before. Can anyone replicate? I've waiting about 5 minutes and the textures aren't loading in properly on the rocky-ice world. It's pretty nasty looking. They seem to be working fine in orbit, and off in the distance...
It seems it's not just ice worlds, and also on another planet the textures just looked 'off'. Again, early days but from initial impressions it seems LoD bugs et all are even worse. In a way I'm not that bothered because I know the state the game is in, and the chaos at HQ to try and sort out and fix these issues..