it is! i'd like to be floating too if FPS allowed me to do so!
Even the plant is floating of joy
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Pre-alpha and alpha planet generation vs release (now). On how we were misled.
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Even the plant is floating of joy
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That's just "it can be done" silliness though.
It probably can be improved upon, but no matter how many tiles or blocks are used, the human mind will eventually start recognizing patterns - even with games like NMS that use a form of 'building blocks' for their flora and fauna, you'll start getting that 'more of the same' feeling after a while - given this I don't think they used the same approach for their planetary tech. In the case of Odyssey, a bare minimum of these building blocks were included - not just for the planetary tech, but also for the xeno-flora and even station interiors, so it didn't take long for people to notice the patterns. It just goes to show how little effort was put into it for release, that only the bare minimum of assets were added to the game.
So it probably will become much better, but ultimately they'd have to approach the problem of procedurally generating planets completely differently, without the repetitive use of prefabricated 'blocks', to truly eliminate the problem and I doubt that's going to happen.
Only 'noise' can throw up unique things, that's the only part of the programming that is of interest to an explorer like me. For example i couldn't care less if i found the largest version of 'hand-crafted Mountain A' somewhere, knowing that same mountain was all over the galaxy just in different sizes and rotations. Your second point is obvious, sure nothing is unique at a molecular level in the universe, but the smaller the particles the more unique whatever the larger whole they are representing is. Obviously Elite's programmers aren't going to reach that level of tinyness with their hand-crafted assets, and therein lies the problem. The planets should be made up entirely by 'noise' imo, that the hand-crafted stuff is there at all is something i really dislike.
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I didn’t partake in the Alpha’s, but I did frequently check out the threads on the forums when that was active.
After patch 4 I purchased Odyssey for my PC Elite.
My biggest issue with the planetary tech post patch 6, from a personal perspective, are the repeated single huge craters, which is simply one asset.
I see it on so many planets, that I’m now fed up with it.
I do find the tech an overall improvement and I am not suffering the same issues some of you have experienced and reported here.
Here’s a few recent good examples:
After patch 4 I purchased Odyssey for my PC Elite.
My biggest issue with the planetary tech post patch 6, from a personal perspective, are the repeated single huge craters, which is simply one asset.
I see it on so many planets, that I’m now fed up with it.
I do find the tech an overall improvement and I am not suffering the same issues some of you have experienced and reported here.
Here’s a few recent good examples:
Still far from what they showed to us, but it's getting better and better.
Obsidian Ant discussed that in his latest video.
So OBANT hasn’t left - I knew it !!
guy's so happy hes floatin'
Ahh, you see.. NOW is a good time for the Posts @ Noon photo
Stolen from Ian Skippy's post #466
Yep. Neither has D2EA. Or any of the ones that started covering other games that was seen as the end of all things as we know it.
I don't think a lot of people truly did. Most people are in the "wait and hope it improves camp".
Why? He was making the point that he has no reason to lie about the figures.
It was an insight the majority of us don't have. It was interesting imo.
Horizons had the same issue - it's probably because there's only so many ways a crater can look tbh. Deep and round tends to be like, their thing.
Can't tell you the number of times in Horizons I found the same crater with this giant nipple in the middle
Ahh yeah, the pyramid nipples.
I haven’t seen a single one of those in Odyssey as of yet.
They exist on the RL moon, they existed in Horizons, but they are extinct in Odyssey from the looks of things.
Hey Erei ?
Now, I’ve not been to this engineer place - but I see it in your sig image often. Is it Really that bad? Can someone go have a look. And also where is it? Cos I’m so lowly i dont even have anything engineered yet.
except most stuff on the original SS has shadows, but the floatin guyAhh, you see.. NOW is a good time for the Posts @ Noon photo
Stolen from Ian Skippy's post #466
4 the meems
Looks like Farseer Base in Deciat, though I might be mistaken.
If you link the peaks of two poles (you know, a bit like you're chest link you're legs),what do you think it will happen ?Ahh, you see.. NOW is a good time for the Posts @ Noon photo
Stolen from Ian Skippy's post #466
Yes it's the engineer place (Farseer inc).
The signature is pre patch6. It changed in patch 6, but only in color. Now it's greenish.
It's a handcrafted location and it seems they didn't do it properly for odyssey. It's important to note (IE it's rather unique, and not how all the terrain look like, thankfully). Originally, we had "puke camo" at others place, but over time it seems to have been mostly fixed.
Yuk - that needs work