I agree in part about the planet tech looking better than horizons in some cases, but the way things stand right now, I cannot get the planet tech to look like this anymore
New Planet Tech is KILLER of Exploration (all terrain is tiling/repeating/not procedural/random)
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More like issue with low vram, game cant use better textures quality and downgrade them.
Why not? im exploring planets that look just like that right now.
![[VR] Merkir](https://forums-cdn.zaonce.net/data/avatars/m/141/141091.jpg?1553527154){kind=avatar}
So your aim is to spam the thread with rubbish like this? Others are actually contributing - showing the repeating terrain issues and related planet tech issues - and discussing rationally.
Could be. Or LOD hasn't streamed in yet. He mentioned it gets a bit better when closer. Anyway... BlackMaze will see.
Don't bother responding to him. He literally just goes around telling everyone they're wrong about their concerns. Like, he literally can't fathom that others are having different issues and it isn't consistent across the board because he isn't having any problems. Save yourself the headache.
On topic: I've having various results and it's hard to say where I lie with this update. I only have a GTX 1080, but I ran Horizons at 4k just fine without any issue and consistently above 60 FPS. Now I'm not an FPS loyalist, but it does bother me a little to not sustain the same level of performance. I'm now running the game at 2560x1440 with a mix of medium/high/ultra settings. I've been playing around with my settings constantly and while I'm getting consistent 30+ FPS, a lot of the times the game just doesn't look finely detailed. It feels like nothing seems smooth.
Some places look okay. Others seem very... I don't know how to describe it. Grainy? Sharp? Lacking finesse? Also, I've tried inserting screenshots, using imgur links, direct from pc etc.. and nothing seems to work. Like the file size is too large no matter what. If someone else could give me a work around that would be nice. Feels like I went through a lot of hassle just to post screenshots lol.
Edit: And my GPU usage is at 100% without fail.
Source: https://imgur.com/BWWykMN
Source: https://imgur.com/RHZzfWM
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im talking with people. u are free to not like it.
This is a LOD loading bug.Instead of making a new topic... What are people their impressions of the planet tech in Update 5?
Something that I've noticed is that planets appear much uglier from orbit now unless you get close. I fear this is from an attempt to improve performance? I didn't think the planets could look uglier.
This is with HIGH preset:
So this means nothing really, except that bug/loading issue is still there.
This
I usually see planets as Merkir, but the few times LOD didn't load properly in time, they were as Blackmaze's. Nothing particularly new to learn from that I suspect.
Well... Not so much "load in", as in "finish rendering", I'd presume (except for streaming something recently flushed back from cache); As far as I understand, the terrain generating system composes these patches of ground in the background as you go, with a slider in settings letting you decide how great a portion of GPU cycles to assign to that function, taking away from rendering frames... :7
EDIT: Hmm, I guess I should amend the above. -With the increased dependence on prebaked bitmaps for geological features, the terrain gen is of course going to be held back by having to load all of those, that are needed for a given patch of ground, before it can generate anything, so there is that... :7 ...I wonder whether they are mipmapped...
EDIT: Hmm, I guess I should amend the above. -With the increased dependence on prebaked bitmaps for geological features, the terrain gen is of course going to be held back by having to load all of those, that are needed for a given patch of ground, before it can generate anything, so there is that... :7 ...I wonder whether they are mipmapped...
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I had a quick look last night at my local crater planet... I didn't notice it looking any different, but will record a 'from distance' fly in (because it is easier to watch a playback as it can be stopped
) and come back if I see anything useful.I more noticed that surface performance has taken a hit since the patch, although the stuttering appears to be less... I'm not at all excited about dropping to 1K on a 4K monitor to get 60 FPS on a surface
All power to you that you still keep trucking tbh. I logged on, saw the yellow number and decided this is not worth my time anymoreI had a quick look last night at my local crater planet... I didn't notice it looking any different, but will record a 'from distance' fly in (because it is easier to watch a playback as it can be stopped
I more noticed that surface performance has taken a hit since the patch, although the stuttering appears to be less... I'm not at all excited about dropping to 1K on a 4K monitor to get 60 FPS on a surface
Now I'm just storing the popcorn for the enlightened posts that happen on the forums.I think we all know by now that this is not something to fix on the player end of things.
Don't bother, he's been trolling this thread, and a few others. You're just feeding the troll.
So why I'm a troll?
I just don't agree with your common thought.
Maybe you are just stigmatized dicident though.
A common thing in this left wing times.
You are like us or you are a troll or any other thing
Thinking in absolutes just like the Sith.
Pd:sorry my bad English.
The Jedi were just as bad as the Sith... just saying...
Technically worse, because the Sith at least made their intentions known, while the Jedi are just trying to keep up the moral high ground, while being just as bad
Which is hilarious because it's exactly what's happeningTechnically worse, because the Sith at least made their intentions known, while the Jedi are just trying to keep up the moral high ground, while being just as bad
.Zurditos everythere
All that you people say explain it all.
The problem with you people is ideologic.
Jedi are bad lol.
All that you people say explain it all.
The problem with you people is ideologic.
Jedi are bad lol.