Nah, you can't simply 'link' Stellar Forge to another engine, it's much more complicated than that.
No you can't, but they are not the same thing ? Like jurassic park world also use cobra, but not the stellar engine (for obivous reasons).Stellar Forge is part of the Cobra Engine though, you can't just "connect" Stellar Forge to UE5 and display the same things. And yes, I know that you know it, I am just stating the obvious because it makes it easier to tell you what I mean, English isn't my first language after all...
Obviously something similar - or a major rewrite - to Stellar Forge could be used with a different Engine, but having a planet in Elite Dangerous is more complex than showing a single (1000 km radius) planet in UE5 (which is what my original comment was about). I would gladly forget about that discussion, but since you called it ridiculous I need to annoy you a little bit.
I'm not saying it's easy to decouple them and so on, just that it's not the same thing. They handle 2 separate things entirely.
Stellar Forge is part of the Cobra Engine. Think about it as a module, the fact that it isn't needed in Jurassic World is irrelevant. A game engine is more than the graphical representation, it's a framework providing development tools and functions.
That's my point ? Stellar forge handle the setting, cobra handle everything else.
You could very much develop a stellar forge for basically any capable engine. Just like you can use the havok physic engine on a variety of game engine.
In that case, everything is separate, because anything could be decoupled if you wanted to put the work in. Anything from some random button in a UI menu somewhere, to entire components of the game. Either way, they are all still unequivocally part of the Elite Dangerous game, all happen during the game's processing, and are still dependant on each other.
Regardless of how it works, I can't see any sort of effort being put in place to change the engine used in ED, it would take years and probably the complete cessation of all development in ED for that time while they got the new engine up and running, I can't see that happening or the abandonment of the current game to start work on a new version. Yes there are things that aren't in the game that I think should be, such as cave systems, but not knowing the limitations of the current engine who knows what may happen in the future if they keep going, but we know what happens if they stop.
Technically I would say that Stellar Forge is part of the Cobra Engine. As a consequence, everything that is done, everything that is handled by Stellar Forge is handled by the Cobra Engine.
Obviously. There are only a few capable engines though because they need to support double precision. As we learned, UE5 does that. Still, it would be a major task to create something similar to Stellar Forge on UE5, it's more than a simple port.
Not really, Havok always was designed as a middleware so you can easily implement it. Stellar Forge was only designed for ED.
This is why the deal CDProjectRED made with Epic Games included development support on the migration... it would most definitelly reduce porting time and work...
Also, I'm not saying Frontier should go for it in regards to Elite Dangerous, but FDev could at least make some serious consideration on doing so for future titles moving forward... maybe makes sense for Elite 5... they even make a great match together... Elite 5 on UE5!
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No thanks. I'd rather a couple more expansions for this game and have no interest for another iteration of it – even Odyssey is a letdown for me in that reguard with the engine/graphics changes. What's so bad about Horizons anyway that they had to go and muck it up? But if worse comes to worse, I have a ~5 gallon vat pot I can use to brew something up.
I do feel like the biggest mistake Frontier made with Odyssey was upgrading Cobra Engine whilst working on a new DLC... it sure seems they bit way more they could chew...
Well, if we want (and we do) nice looking planets thermosphere and vegetation we need a proper engine. Most players would like to see nice looking planets with stuff to do on them than properly sized planets. Star citizen proves that with its unrealistically tiny but visually excellent planets with atmospheric effects. We just can't get everything.
It wasn't good for Odyssey, leastwise not for me playing it, but thankfully Horizons is still an option.
That’s the job of Fdev to answer. isn’t it? and most players don’t care about the planet radius but what has on that planet and what can you do on it. correct size planets with dull look and nothing to do don’t bring value to most players and thus to Fortier.
Does it really? I doubt it. Only gravity.
Luckily most players aren't playing Elite Dangerous.
My favourite things about Elite:
1. 1:1 Galaxy
2. Shared game world / BGS
3. Flight model
Everything else is a long way off. If they reduced scale for more activity I would probably leave immediately. (Which doesn't mean I wouldn't welcome better missions and gameplay!)
You need to ask StellarForge
I beg your pardon? Speaking for a lot of people there aren't you? I wouldn't even be here playing if ED used toy planets, that's not an option!
That wasn't the question.
PS
If you need to ask:
The question was if Elite can easily be ported to UE5, or if it does not support all of Elite's features without a major rewrite.
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