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Elite Dangerous: Horizons - How to Make a Real World Livestream on our official YouTube Channel 7PM BST 14th Oct
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Great stream (even with the stuttering difficulties, I hope you can up the vids for us to squee over properly!), had enough to satisfy my inner geek, at least somewhat!
One follow-up question though :
Thanks again, and looking forward to more! *grin*
P.S.: That annoying *PING* is apparently a feature of YouTube chat, signifying a moderator posting, while you are in fullscreen... ugh!
One follow-up question though :
- Will we finally see shadows of planets on other planets (either from the surface, like an eclipse, or even in space), since right now that doesn't seem to be the case?
Thanks again, and looking forward to more! *grin*
P.S.: That annoying *PING* is apparently a feature of YouTube chat, signifying a moderator posting, while you are in fullscreen... ugh!
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That question was answered . There will be a 'smoothing' technique between LOD's to minimize the effect ... Although given what the devs are doing here its practically impossible to get a completely smooth transition.
It's the one way in which airless worlds are harder than ones with atmospheres, there's no "fog" to hide the dodgy bits (like in NMS, for example)-- you can see to the horizon regardless of distance.
This reminds of seeing a test shot in a magazine from DB's ZARCH (WAY back in the day) where he drew the complete landscape to the horizon -- it looked amazing, but apparently only ran at 1 or 2 fps.
Awesome stream, despite the video issues. I'm delighted to see they are putting some science into simulating the surfaces rather than just adding perlin noise to a sphere!
Question though... does the plate tectonics system extend to the smaller planetoids (spud worlds). Or is the stellar forge system smart enough to see that a body that small would never have had a molten core and the only landscaping would be done by external impacts etc... so no rifts or mountains.
Question though... does the plate tectonics system extend to the smaller planetoids (spud worlds). Or is the stellar forge system smart enough to see that a body that small would never have had a molten core and the only landscaping would be done by external impacts etc... so no rifts or mountains.
Just watched it. Overall great presentation. The potato radius is a bit exaggerated, probably to make the terrain of planets more interesting and varied. In ED it appears to be closer to 2000 km radius for a smoothly spherical horizon, whereas the real world value is 200-300 km (at least in Sol). This is probably because they are using "nodes" to determine height maps, and this makes the horizon nodes on even larger 900 km radius planets look a little too lumpy. Maybe this is something they could address? But if not, hey I am mostly glad that they have a "potato radius" at all, so I won't pull too hard on the seams. Looks like you guys will have your hands full just making it work at a playable framerate with decent resolution.
Also the mountains should probably join together a bit more to form ridges (rather than clumps of points), especially at tectonic boundaries where wrinkling of the surface would be more apparent.
Over all though... Nice work art team!!! A+
Also the mountains should probably join together a bit more to form ridges (rather than clumps of points), especially at tectonic boundaries where wrinkling of the surface would be more apparent.
Over all though... Nice work art team!!! A+
Full unofficial upload here:
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Looking at that 30km mountain i had only one thought. Bonsai! No... wait, i mean... BANZAI, and launching my SRV off the top of it.
You know, that reminds me of Hyperion... wait... NOOOOO CANNOT UNS... eh... UNIMAGINE!
If the put the Shrike on a planet, I'm freakin' not playing! Couldn't get through Alien Isolation, but meeting the Shrike somewhere on random planet in ED... no wai!
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On the subject, yes... potato planets were a tad too... potato.
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It's simple... it will be the feather
.pfft.. I see your "big" vacuum chamber and I raise you... THE MOON.
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Amazing stuff FD! The amount of detail that's going into generating these planets is staggering. And the videos of the craters and canyons looked like NASA videos of real-life moons - stunning.
Glad people enjoyed the teams work, very humbled by the response! We spend loads of time pouring over Nasa photos to get as close as we can to scientifically correct!
The infrastructure stuff for E: D is certainly marvellous. If only the game that uses those assets reached the same heights, then we would certainly have the blockbuster of all blockbusters.