Ah you don't even see this planets in ED until you get very close to them, and then you don't even render surface, until you get really close to it. So yeah, i am pretty sure you are seeing as you call it placeholders in ED. And the performace hit in Odyssey surfaces is huge, compared to space. So none renders entire planets.
If you had a point to make, i might have understood it.
If I had every quarter that I dropped into these games in the 80's, I would probably be able to own the original game cabinet and afford the warehouse they would fit into right now. I think over 1500 of the games in my emulation cab are space games..err I mean simsR type was my poison. So many great space sims from the past.
Galaxians, Galaga, Space invaders, Asteroids
Starfield 2 would definately benefit from UE 5, since it's full of instances already.
Certainly in terms of physical space a single Saturn-sized ring system contains enough cubic kilometres that an ED-sized player base could never explore all of it, and a single planet at Earth-level detail throughout is also well beyond anyone's ability to hand-generate for a computer game, too.
Sure, but I think whichever way you do with travel times, scan times and equivalents, etc. the maths works out about the same in the end: you either have a small enough region that you can hand-design the content, but a single determined individual can probably see "all" of it, and the player base as a whole will have found "everything" that hasn't been extremely carefully hidden within a few months ... or you can procedurally generate huge numbers of systems / planets / ring system rocks / whatever your base unit of exploration is from templates, and there's a huge amount of stuff to find with even players ten years in being able to see things no-one has ever seen before without having to solve a super-hard puzzle first, but most of it is relatively uninteresting.
When I go hiking in a forest I don't examine or take special note of every tree. Some trees I will, lets say maybe 10 or 20. If it was decided I only need 20 cool looking trees for a fun walk in the forest we could just get rid of the forest and let people walk in the park. Its basically the same thing right? 10-20 cool big old trees. Paths to walk on. Some birds up in the branches. Its the same thing as a walk in the forest right?
Why would you go to the forest to look at the trees? I never hiked my self in the forest, but i imagined people would go on a trip there to change the environment, enjoy the fresh air, the smell of the forest, the sounds of birds, have a nice picnic, or teach your self or your kids some survival skills. A strange example.
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Very nice article thank you. In 5.1 according to the video they increased that 21 km to 83 000 000 km. A massive leap, so we are getting there step by step.Is Unreal Engine 5 a good choice for space sim ?
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There'd be no possibility of simulating an entire star system at 1:1 scale all at once, but it's not as if Cobra does that either (not even in supercruise) - there are plenty of relatively simple techniques to handle things further away than that without players noticing the difference.
Isn't that rather the point, you use Stellar Forge (or something similar) to do the space environment stuff and UE5 to do all the standard game stuff (stop me if I'm being too technical
)?Sure, but the standard game stuff isn't usually the tricky bit, so if you move all the complicated space stuff outside of "the engine", it then matters even less what engine you use.Isn't that rather the point, you use Stellar Forge (or something similar) to do the space environment stuff and UE5 to do all the standard game stuff (stop me if I'm being too technical
