"I truly believe the team have created a milestone in modern video game history."
New Planet Tech is KILLER of Exploration (all terrain is tiling/repeating/not procedural/random)
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In my opinion E: D as a whole, warts (like EDO system & galaxy maps, lighting, some planets etc.) and all, is that.
Yeah, I'd agree for Stellar Forge. The gameplay itself has never been some groundbreaking gaming history milestone imho.In my opinion E: D as a whole, warts (like EDO system & galaxy maps, lighting, some planets etc.) and all, is that.
But what did surprise me was that that statement was made in regards to Odyssey's launch.
how apt that in a thread re:repeating, you repeat a reply to one of your messages earlier on a different thread - Marvellous!
If Only I could draw a red circle around it.
Hopefully, they get it together and there won't be any more cuts and they can make progress. But, it is kind of interesting to see the slow implosion since EDO was released and to be able to point the finger directly at that expansion for the cause. They've worked, and are working, hard to get some success and I hope they do. But this past year has been like watching a train wreck in slow motion. They definitely need some kind of break in all of this!
Well, this is disappointing.
Man I wish ED would be fully offline playable. Then I'd say do with your expansions whatever you want, I have my Horizons and after me the flood.
Might?There is no might about it, is there?
You do know that any sphere projected on a plane leads to heavy distortions in some way or another?
As the game is perfect, they might start cancelling the players. We've seen how handy Arthur is with a weapon.For the love of god dont poke them hornet nest that is fdev, they might cancel the PC version next (seeing as its the pnly one left)
People still confuse textures with geological feature generation? I never had any issues with day to day tiling of textures on the ground. The thing that ODY introduced was obvious copies of geological macro features like hills, ravines, mountains, craters. Not just some rando rock scatter.
No, that’s not what tiling is.
The fact that you thought that was a low quality image just proves his point.
I was posting it in repose to the 'repeating' part of the heading. I am fully aware of what tiling is (I have it in my bathroom
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Elite has definitely achieved the status of Bad Art at this point, that much is certain.
Yes this is correct. They're essentially flat decals and it continually redraws the planet surface view as you move around it. Same with the stars. I'm sure there's some kind of 3d mesh on top of all that for adding FX, but the nonlandables are animated 2d images. This was explained in one of Frontier's own videos at one point, where they explain how some of their galaxy tech works. It's a little unfair to call them "just" discs, etc, because the solution they came up with at the time is kind of brilliant.
I was posting it in repose to the 'repeating' part of the heading. I am fully aware of what tiling is (I have it in my bathroom
With the mention that image had no repeating patterns or as the say: tilling
Sure, some of the solar corona features looked more or less similar, but they're not identical.