Did I do someting wrong or are the dark sides of planets not dark anymore?
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Well then the darkness adaptation is broken. Because when the sun is low and you go into the shadow of a crater, it is pitch black in there. Either the darkness should always be dark, or the darkness adaptation should always work.
It could certainly do with some tweaking, I don't mind the lightening of stuff but when it just jumps from dark to light or vice versa it does seem a little odd.
It isn't normal Human light adaptation obviously. Otherwise it wouldn't work near the sun (we'd just be blinded). I think they peg the adaptation to the ambient light (day night side) not the cliff/crater shadow crater you're in, otherwise the areas outside the shadow would become blinding.
And yes it is the same adaptation algorithm they use for getting closer or more distant to stars. I know because I reported it as a bug in DEC 2015 when Horizons launched, and got the same answer from Frontier. It's intentional. And plausibly sci fi realistic.
I've tested this quite thoroughly, the ultimate one being the quality of darkness on the night side of Beagle Point planets!! 65000 LY for a lighting test?? You bet, for Science.
It's supposed to be a gradual transition but it's broken in a couple places like near Obsidian Orbital.
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Yea unless you have a thick atmosphere above you the whole pitch black thing wont happen. That is unless you are inside a cave or something.
I think they do it because your eyes would adjust. Like where I live if it gets down into the negative temperatures the air is generally so dry that there is no clouds. I can see the milky way like we see it in the game for the most part.
If the ground is covered in snow I can walk around outside at 2am like its the middle of the day because of the stars reflecting off of the snow.
I think they do it because your eyes would adjust. Like where I live if it gets down into the negative temperatures the air is generally so dry that there is no clouds. I can see the milky way like we see it in the game for the most part.
If the ground is covered in snow I can walk around outside at 2am like its the middle of the day because of the stars reflecting off of the snow.
