Real enough?
New Planet Tech is KILLER of Exploration (all terrain is tiling/repeating/not procedural/random)
- Thread starter BlackMaze
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That is so cute. They look like a bunch of sea dragons all in nice neat rows.
Well, at least SOMETHING got organized . . . into nice neat rows.
Eeeww. That's... not good.That is so cute. They look like a bunch of sea dragons all in nice neat rows.
Well, at least SOMETHING got organized . . . into nice neat rows.
Just what is this weird stuff? Seems to be on every single planet I can land on. Looks like a load of weird bacteria multiplying in a petri dish. Not like any kind of lava formation or boulder field or whatever.
And there the yoghurt comes again... No even remotely sharp edges
I agree, but the area had at least something other than an Australian bush terrain
BTW The update has done some WEIRD things with shadows randomly appearing. Like that giant one ahead of my ship there.
![[DOOK] Droogie](https://forums-cdn.zaonce.net/data/avatars/m/124/124078.jpg?1553527149){kind=avatar}
Hmm...
WTH?Hmm...
Maybe those worried about the new planet tech should have a look at the Odyssey Screenshots thread - there are some gorgeous planets out there, hills, mountains, terrain that varies across a single planet way more than I think it did in Horizons. I hope there are still spectacular canyons and craggy mountains, I understand that’s important for some people here in terms of how they like to play. But checking through the screenshots might reassure folks that the planets are varied and interesting to visit.
If you followed the thread, it is not about features on the surface, that's only a sidetrack. This here is mainly about the repetitious tiling of planetary scale
The thought did occur to me that I was going to be Insect food pretty soon.Hmm...
Are you hovering half a meter above the actual mountain side?True;
There's how's that, me at the top!
You're correct. It can't be patched because it's not a bug. It's by design. This is what they wanted to do. I will NOT spend another nickel with frontier and I'm borderline on whether to delete the whole game.
True. Or maybe she knows she tipped the donkey cart over and doesn't want to be reminded of it.
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I didn't say it did. I suggested you replace that layman's term (which other people are using for simplicity) with "terrain shapes generated offline", ie. Dr. Ross's words.
So you know what FDev are doing? Do you work there?
When Dr. Ross said that terrain in Odyssey is, "now generated offline into terrain shapes that we know are formed," it could mean a lot of things. Eg.
1. Using empirical data of actual planetary geology with post processing for variety.
2. Simulation of geological processes over appropriate epochs (eg. rivers and canyon formation).
3. Procgen using algorithms approximating known planetary geology.
4. Hand crafting.
5. <add an unknown number of other possibilities>
6. Any combination of the above.
FWIW other than the weird bacteria multiplying in petri dish effects at a certain altitude, I'm not seeing this repeated texture/shape effect at all, and I've been looking for it. I'm playing on ultra, maybe that matters? I think that while OP has clearly found something odd, it appears to be fairly rare that the effect is anywhere near that extreme.
I wish, tbh all I see is repeated patterns now when coming into planets.
Once on the ground etc the planets feel and look great but the render engine and LOD is seriously messed up when flying....
According to the OP you are a liar and used Photoshop to create the screenshot.
Please don't speak for anyone else other than yourself, especially when it's clear they are completely different screenshots they are talking about!