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Atmospherics : Lush worlds (concept art)
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From Miguel Inglesias ArtStation page: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/GgwXQ
Some other conceptart:
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I don't see most of that, if any at all when I am approaching and landing on planets, the most I see sometimes is a circle of different coloured textures around the ship and that's to do with LOD issues not the planetary tech, I suggest a lot of the above is also that issue.
Here's my flyover;
Distant;
Surface vulcanism;
Oops had to edit, copied the wrong links.
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From Miguel Inglesias ArtStation page: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/GgwXQ
Some other conceptart:
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Very pretty but, realistically, I can't see us ever getting that in-game.
Personally, I'd settle for G-Police style "domed-cities", where you fly down from orbit, see a huge dome on the surface, fly through the entrance, get a transition (loading screen) and then end up inside the city.
If FDev handled it that way, they could develop it as paid DLC whereby the domed cities are simply off-limits to somebody who doesn't buy the DLC but players who do would get both ship and FPS content (again, similar to G-Police) within the cities.
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g police....now there is a game I have not played for a good few years.
Uhuh.
Always thought it wa kind of sad that G-Police wasn't a bigger success.
I got it bundeld with a gfx card about 20 years ago, didn't bother looking at it for about a year and then, when I did, I thought "Blimey! Why didn't I already know about this???"
Sure, the graphics weren't great (by today's standards) and the domed-cities meant the environment was limited but the gameplay was superb.
Within the cities the gameplay WAS totally "sandbox".
You'd get a mission and it'd be up to you how you completed it; either by stealth, aggression, all at once, a bit at a time etc.
If somebody brought out a direct remake of it, with modern graphics, I'd definitely buy it.
If FDev spent a couple of weeks playing it and decided to incorporate something similar into ED, I'd be over the bloody moon.
As usual, I'm all for finding uses for small ships and it'd be great having, say, a DBS specially for bounty-hunting within domed cities or a T6 for pretending to be space-FedEx, moving cargo around a domed city quickly.
I think I played it on the original playstation if I had to guess around 1996
edit almost..... I cheated and googled. 1997.
, there was a small tech demo made for VR which had a bit of a blade runner / g police vibe about it.. funnily enough at the time my 1st thought was that if elite looked like it it would be great. I can't remember what it was called.
edit almost..... I cheated and googled. 1997.
, there was a small tech demo made for VR which had a bit of a blade runner / g police vibe about it.. funnily enough at the time my 1st thought was that if elite looked like it it would be great. I can't remember what it was called.
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I'd prove them bringing back the Domed-Cities.
Now the technical challenges of implementing it would be another story...
My last concept for that serie, some dogfight in Page 1
Briefly made me think how cool hiding in cloud cover would be
Then I remembered we have 'night vision' that would completely negate that challenge. One of the things I miss in Odyssey is the fog effect in deep canyons & some craters.
Some cool jamming module will negate the night visionBriefly made me think how cool hiding in cloud cover would be
Then I remembered we have 'night vision' that would completely negate that challenge. One of the things I miss in Odyssey is the fog effect in deep canyons & some craters.
Thank you! That was a good summary by OA. I keep fingers crossed that some of the remaining or newly hired devs can evolve Dr. Ross' model. It would be a shame to let it stagnate.
That isn't many lush concepts - mostly arid. And those are preferred in games, because they provide the fewest assets to render. Plants, procgenned planted is a pretty hefty challenge. It's possible, like NMS demonstrates, but hard and likely with limits.
Top work CMDR, what software do you use to make those?
Blender, Daz and Photoshop Commander o7
Ships are in game screenshots composited.