Elite vs Reality - Earth view from the Moon / Saturn and Titan
On top, Elite Dangerous in-game image made by me, Sol system, 2017. Below is a image made by a modern HD camera by the Japanese JAXA probe in 2007.
In addition to the visual evidence, another fact proved: My ship was at 1.22ls of Earth in this position or 365,756 km and the distance Earth-Moon measured is 384,399 km.
The pictures of the Apollo missions usually confuse giving the impression of the Earth being much larger seen from the surface of the Moon. It all depends on the focal length and angulation of the lens. The view of the astronauts would be closer than we would find in the Elite if we could land on the Moon, since the game uses the actual orbital size and distances.
About the moon surface texture in Elite, when we can land on her (because it is not blocked by permit, it does not really have the modeling of the horizons engine yet) I expect the terrain modeling to be made as close as possible to the actual moon. By the time it has a very crappy texture when we arrive at this drop distance.
Small attempt to reproduce another real image in Elite (the another was earth view from moon by Kaguya probe). By the Left is Saturn and Titan in the Elite in-game made by me and the right is the image made by the Cassini probe. Unfortunately, rings don't cast shadows on planets in Elite ... who knows in the future?
I had to move far enough to compensate for the 200mm focal length of Cassini's wide angle camera and therefore lower the original image of the probe to simulate the view of it without zooming. I hope that with the new camera, I can reproduce other images. Because with the debug camera without special features you can not play most of the images from NASA.
Digital zoom version. The bad quality is because I increased the image, since even being a screenshot in fullHD, it was very far from object to reproduce the real image aspect.
On top, Elite Dangerous in-game image made by me, Sol system, 2017. Below is a image made by a modern HD camera by the Japanese JAXA probe in 2007.
In addition to the visual evidence, another fact proved: My ship was at 1.22ls of Earth in this position or 365,756 km and the distance Earth-Moon measured is 384,399 km.
The pictures of the Apollo missions usually confuse giving the impression of the Earth being much larger seen from the surface of the Moon. It all depends on the focal length and angulation of the lens. The view of the astronauts would be closer than we would find in the Elite if we could land on the Moon, since the game uses the actual orbital size and distances.
About the moon surface texture in Elite, when we can land on her (because it is not blocked by permit, it does not really have the modeling of the horizons engine yet) I expect the terrain modeling to be made as close as possible to the actual moon. By the time it has a very crappy texture when we arrive at this drop distance.
Small attempt to reproduce another real image in Elite (the another was earth view from moon by Kaguya probe). By the Left is Saturn and Titan in the Elite in-game made by me and the right is the image made by the Cassini probe. Unfortunately, rings don't cast shadows on planets in Elite ... who knows in the future?
I had to move far enough to compensate for the 200mm focal length of Cassini's wide angle camera and therefore lower the original image of the probe to simulate the view of it without zooming. I hope that with the new camera, I can reproduce other images. Because with the debug camera without special features you can not play most of the images from NASA.
Digital zoom version. The bad quality is because I increased the image, since even being a screenshot in fullHD, it was very far from object to reproduce the real image aspect.
