I don't know if this has been mentioned before but it will be really cool if you could do that. In the real world its not practical because of the freezing temperatures and the high pressures inside a Gas Giant. But maybe in Elite dangerous where technology has advanced you could technicly say that they have that kind of technology so the ships could do that. The performance issues could be a problem or the fact that this might take a long time to be implemented. But aside those issues there could be materials that you can scavenge in Gas Giants or something more mysterious like another alien species waiting to be discovered. I am dreaming big, but if you could atleast fly through them, you could take some nice photos.
Being able to fly inside Gas Giants
- Thread starter DeimosXI
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mentioned during the kickstarter as a "wouldn't it be amazing if" kind of thing. So its something the devs want to do but its one of them highly unlikely things.
Fair enough. Thank you for informing me.
All it needs is a secondary body exclusion zone, so we can go further down, and use the same volumetric cloud tech with lightning they already use is NSP sites... the second exclusion zone would prevent you from going too pressure-crushingly deep.
Nah, no second exclusion zone, just a pressure guage and if you go to deep.....BOOM! Or is that MOOB! Fact is it would be fine flying at the level of the first layer of clouds on Jupiter, you are only looking at a little over 2.5g, but, pressure increases rapidly as you descend. I suspect it's more the modeling of realistic gas giant clouds and atmosphere that are the drawback here, it would need to be good.
There would be a warning if u got too deep. Preventing u from being crushed. If u kept going u eat rebuy. Ur ship would run nice and chilly as there would be cold gas going over ur radiators.
Good show. Lost in space whale scene gud.
This is something which FD initially wanted to explore, down the line, using procedural methods, as to if that was / is achievable realistically is debatable.
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Star Citizen have just achieved this, but their volumetric clouds, still require a lot of calculations to achieve and are effectively static.
I would love for FD to implement these, but their slow progress makes me feel they are no longer necessarily focused on achieving these goals at this time.
If they ever do appear I would hazard a guess they may appear as a work around, utilising existing mechanisms, such as the Lagrange clouds with an emphasis not on ‘true’ realism but on elegant use of existing features, rather than unnecessary complex coding.
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Star Citizen have just achieved this, but their volumetric clouds, still require a lot of calculations to achieve and are effectively static.
I would love for FD to implement these, but their slow progress makes me feel they are no longer necessarily focused on achieving these goals at this time.
If they ever do appear I would hazard a guess they may appear as a work around, utilising existing mechanisms, such as the Lagrange clouds with an emphasis not on ‘true’ realism but on elegant use of existing features, rather than unnecessary complex coding.
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I don't think they're dynamic either, it's just fixed clouds that never move, that would be less than ideal for a simulation of a jovian atmosphere where wind speeds get up to 650kph.
I miss this Braben
Salesman Braben?
Sadly DBOBE only turns up when a bit of a blunder has been made in recent times.I miss this Braben