Fiction Elite: Lave Revolution Art.

[Susimetsa]

It will be interesting to see Frontier's response to these. They are pro scientific accuracy in most things (except for automatic rotation compensation inside stations, hyperspace and flight model), so testing their tolerance level is an interesting experiment.

I actually did not realise that the clouds here were supposed to represent nebulae and was going to ask "what have you done to Lave!!!?" assuming that some very horrific weapon must have been used for the space around the planet to look like that...

 

[drew]

Don't get me started on white lasers....

Cheers,

Drew.

 

[drew]

It will be interesting to see Frontier's response to these. They are pro scientific accuracy in most things (except for automatic rotation compensation inside stations, hyperspace and flight model), so testing their tolerance level is an interesting experiment.

I actually did not realise that the clouds here were supposed to represent nebulae and was going to ask "what have you done to Lave!!!?" assuming that some very horrific weapon must have been used for the space around the planet to look like that...

From what I've seen, Mr. Braben is far more strict than me. Back in Jan/Feb I constructed a 'working' Prism solar system and had to adjust it based on David's superior knowledge of stellar classification...

Clouds of material simply don't just hang around in space I'm afraid. They would disperse in minutes.

Cheers,

Drew.

 

[Captain N]

We have seen similar things in official artwork...

Not as extreme or pronounced as here, but still, space filled with matter appears to not be an uncommon sight in the Elite Dangerous universe.

I have to add, I'm also not a fan of this phenomenon.

 

[Darren Grey]

@Drew - I would bow to your superior knowledge, but a little gentle ribbing instead keeps you humble.

Ooh-er!

 

[drew]

We have seen similar things in official artwork...

Not as extreme or pronounced as here, but still, space filled with matter appears to not be an uncommon sight in the Elite Dangerous universe.

I have to add, I'm also not a fan of this phenomenon.

But you'll note in the official images that dust/gas is in the background (which is perfectly feasible) not in the foreground (which isn't)

Cheers,

Drew.

 

[Captain N]

I'm talking about things like floodlights from a ship creating a visible beam and objects casting volumetric shadows. That's not just in the background.

 

[drew]

I'm talking about things like floodlights from a ship creating a visible beam and objects casting volumetric shadows. That's not just in the background.

Good point. Aesthetics/realism again...

But I think fluffy space clouds go too far.

Cheers,

Drew.

 

[PacalB]

You can have the nebula in the background (it would be beyond the limits of the solar system) but not 'wisping' in front of the planet like earth based clouds. It's pure fantasy I'm afraid.

Nebulae are huge and very very low density (even a dense one is much less dense than the best vacuums we can generate on Earth).

Technical reasons why not:

1. The solar wind would blow all low density particles outside the limits of the solar system. Nebulae retreat from newly formed stars within a few thousands years of the stars ignition

2. A planet would 'sweep' up any remaining nebulous material in its orbit and 'clear a path' within a few hundred years.

Cheers,

Drew.

Bahhhh humbug!!!

With the new colour scheme, we could argue that it is the dust remains of an ancient pulverised mining site, an iron asteroid field, one that the dust particulates have been ironised over the centuries gone bye.

Yep, that colour scheme works better Allen.

 

[Allen Stroud]

Update on Lave Orbit, to please the Senator...

 

[Allen Stroud]

And an update to Ashoria Downtown, to please Mr Veeeegor....

 

[Styggron]

I voted for the first 1, for some unknown reson it reminded me of the Dune Movie. My brains workings is weird ways even for me.

Same.

 

[Susimetsa]

Ah, the upgraded version looks much more futuristic now!