I liked Subnautica's water a lot more...
I will check it out, thanks for the pointer!
I liked Subnautica's water a lot more...
That is an absolute must!Space Lips, so we can drink the coffee!
I've been giving some thought to rivers in ED. Oceans you can bodge by putting a second 'water' sphere in a planet and have its radius greater than the lowest point of the planet but less than the highest point, make it pulse my a few meters and boom wave lapping at a shore (over simplified of course).
But rivers would be tricky, so here's my solution/algorithm for building them, (I'd love feedback btw).
1) Seed a number of start points 100-1000, for the sake of argument.
2) Find a 'near-by' ocean, height map hash search or something.
3) Plot a route to the ocean, basic a* path finding or the like but for every unit of measure (10 meters say) 'randomly' (according to a given seed) change direction, by affecting the weight of a given direction, so that a straight line isn't viewed as optimal.
At this point this is all what you can see from orbit. So we can stop here unless you get closer.
4) All ground/surface points along the route are decreased in height by 1-10 meters (again, sake of argument) and 'filled' with water. Bingo you've got a river.
5) Any point that has a mayor course change in the z-axis is given a 'waterfall' render.
This is just pure speculation and mostly a thought exersize for me. What are your thoughts. Do you think this is feasible, good, bad, ugly?
Edit: Maybe the AI path finding job FD were looking for wasn't just for NPCs in SRVs, could have been for rivers.
We do not ask so many things.We'd all have to have supercomputers to accurately simulate all aspects of the universe. That is just not reasonable.
We just want what certain...other space games have, in other words. If they can do it, why can’t FDev?We do not ask so many things.
Just a little water, fauna and flora, beautiful landscapes and a little blue sky.
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Maybe once we get space legs?Could we turn one of the landing pads on our FLEET CARRIERS into a swimming pool?
Indeed, and also it would be incomprehensible that Frontier is not able to reproduce what it does with Jurassic, Planet Zoo ...We just want what certain...other space games have, in other words. If they can do it, why can’t FDev?
And a pair of space boots to stretch our legsWe do not ask so many things.
Just a little water, fauna and flora, beautiful landscapes and a little blue sky.
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Walking in the ship and also around and also in the stations would already be very nice.And a pair of space boots to stretch our legs![]()
Most of the time its about people saying the cobra engine can't do certain stuff, when it already has.Why do we have to go through this every time frontier releases something... Even FD said themselves very clearly (in response to similar hopes when PC launched) that the fact that PC has something does not mean it is tranferrable to ED.
First it was the outsider.... oh look space legs just around the corner, they already have all the tech...
Than PC... oh look at this crowd tech, given the pre rendered trailer we will surely see stations populated with people, and even people on planets soon after PC lounch.
Than JWE... oh look dinosaurs, big game huntinng is surely comming...
and now this... come on people... damaged frontal lobe or something?
We just want what certain...other space games have, in other words. If they can do it, why can’t FDev?
I certainly don’t want their god-awful flight model and chibi planets, if that’s what you’re saying. I’d just like to land somewhere lively and smell the alien roses once in a while.Maybe you don't really want NMS in Elite?