New Planet Tech is KILLER of Exploration (all terrain is tiling/repeating/not procedural/random)

Just

Just
hunvagy said:
Yeah, that's a noise graph :D But that Ayers rock looking one could be premade. I can't say, as I don't start it up until the fixes are through. And really, it would need a lot of work to correlate the data.. for nothing. Because FD won't say anything until fixed, as you said.
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Wait, I just googled Ayers Rock and I realized there was a series of misunderstandings from my side.
It was about those flat top thing and not my "Mt. Everest".
Even so, "Ayers Rock" mountains are IMO just a TYPE of generated assets. There is nothing so special about it that would explain necessity of considering them predefined assets.
 

hunvagy

hunvagy
Just said:
Wait, I just googled Ayers Rock and I realized there was a series of misunderstandings from my side.
It was about those flat top thing and not my "Mt. Everest".
Even so, "Ayers Rock" mountains are IMO just a TYPE of generated assets. There is nothing so special about it that would explain necessity of considering them predefined assets.
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This one I believe, from Valorins post. But as said, I have no idea at this point :D
 

Just

Just
hunvagy said:
This one I believe, from Valorins post. But as said, I have no idea at this point :D
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Well, I just too a longer look at "my" mountain and I like it more end more.
it has rigdes, cols, and whatevers (I'd have to google translations for mountain features), proportions are plausible for a steep rocky mountain visible from distance.
AND it looks generated considering the flaws of geometry.
 

hunvagy

hunvagy
Just said:
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Well, I just too a longer look at "my" mountain and I like it more end more.
it has rigdes, cols, and whatevers (I'd have to google translations for mountain features), proportions are plausible for a steep rocky mountain visible from distance.
AND it looks generated considering the flaws of geometry.
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Yup, more this one is pretty awesome. More of this, less repeated flat rocks :D
 

Slowfiddler

Slowfiddler
Just said:
Well, it would have to be some proper supersonic "breeze" blowing always in the same direction to make this... thing.
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That could work if there was some sort of resistant igneous sill in there. Erosion over millions of years or more?

Would this look silly if generated on a planet in a computer game?

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Just

Just
Slowfiddler said:
Odd, I can see it in the post. It is Devil's Tower Wyoming.
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OK, I googled this.

Yeah, point taken, some natural terrain features on atmospheric planets can indeed look unreal, artificial or like a product of BROKEN procedural terrain generator. Even if they're legit.
 
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BlackMaze

BlackMaze
I've come back with another comparison. I mentioned the loss of Taylor Keep before. That was a beautiful INRA base in a crater, in a crater, between the central pillar in the crater.

I've just gone to check out a Guardian Site in Vela Dark Region JS-T b3-0, planet A 3 and it had the guardian site set in the most incredible location, with the circle overlooking the vast terrain much lower:

Horizons:
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Horizons:
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And here is the same location in Odyssey. To no surprise it looks like every other planet:
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Wow... Just wow...
 

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BlackMaze said:
I've come back with another comparison. I mentioned the loss of Taylor Keep before. That was a beautiful INRA base in a crater, in a crater, between the central pillar in the crater.

I've just gone to check out a Guardian Site in Vela Dark Region JS-T b3-0, planet A 3 and it had the guardian site set in the most incredible location, with the circle overlooking the vast terrain much lower:

Horizons:
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Horizons:
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And here is the same location in Odyssey. To no surprise it looks like every other planet:
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Wow... Just wow...
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Gotta admit, that Horizons location is a lot sexier.
 

Erei

Erei
BlackMaze said:
I've come back with another comparison. I mentioned the loss of Taylor Keep before. That was a beautiful INRA base in a crater, in a crater, between the central pillar in the crater.

I've just gone to check out a Guardian Site in Vela Dark Region JS-T b3-0, planet A 3 and it had the guardian site set in the most incredible location, with the circle overlooking the vast terrain much lower:

Horizons:
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Horizons:
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And here is the same location in Odyssey. To no surprise it looks like every other planet:
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Wow... Just wow...
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You wrote "sexy" in red in one of the screenshot, that's a subliminal message !

Joke aside, yeah, it's not even remotely in the same category.
 

Amy Pendergast

Amy Pendergast
BlackMaze said:
I've come back with another comparison. I mentioned the loss of Taylor Keep before. That was a beautiful INRA base in a crater, in a crater, between the central pillar in the crater.

I've just gone to check out a Guardian Site in Vela Dark Region JS-T b3-0, planet A 3 and it had the guardian site set in the most incredible location, with the circle overlooking the vast terrain much lower:

Horizons:
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Horizons:
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And here is the same location in Odyssey. To no surprise it looks like every other planet:
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Wow... Just wow...
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That lost so much atmosphere I'm speechless.

At least the handcrafted POIs should look better than that.
 
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