Gas Giant Texture Revamps required here...

Becky · Nov 10, 2017

NASA's Juno probe Photos

http://www.thespaceacademy.org/2017/11/nasas-1-billion-jupiter-probe-just-sent.html

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Komemiute · Nov 10, 2017

Nope, the first is a render, not a real picture. I refuse to believe otherwise.

Still, +1 rep.

Becky · Nov 10, 2017

The Images came from Nasa - it's a given they are not real images

varonica · Nov 11, 2017

Komemiute said:
Nope, the first is a render, not a real picture. I refuse to believe otherwise.

Still, +1 rep.

Yes the probe is traveling at around 200,000kph, getting a shot like that would probably see the probe destroyed a second of so later as it hit the cloud bank. However I have looked at the images, in light of that I expect the gas giant textures will get an update sooner or later, but lets gets landable planets done first.

MBaldelli · Nov 11, 2017

Becky said:
The Images came from Nasa - it's a given they are not real images

No it's not... NASA uses artists to draw/image interpretations based on scientist's explanations to them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/...e-meld-as-nasa-names-artist-collaborator.html

https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1...vLbXAhUU9WMKHUu6ApwQ7xYIJSgA&biw=1213&bih=927 (pick and choose from this, it'll help you understand how NASA works with artists).

Becky · Nov 11, 2017

varonica said:
Yes the probe is traveling at around 200,000kph, getting a shot like that would probably see the probe destroyed a second of so later as it hit the cloud bank. However I have looked at the images, in light of that I expect the gas giant textures will get an update sooner or later, but lets gets landable planets done first.

from what Braben has been talking about it looks like we'll be getting gas giant game play before atmospheric landings

FoxFire Ayderan · Nov 11, 2017

I would love to see cloud features like those in the Nasa images from orbit, with moving cloud/weather formations on the gas giants. And should we ever get atmospheric flight, things like the first image. Would be incredible to fly through that.

Speaking of which, it would also be nice to see moving cloud/weather on the rocky planets with atmospheres, including the Earth-like planets. I realize these things are often slow moving when seen from on high, but nevertheless clouds move and change over time, so it would be nice to see that in game.

varonica · Nov 14, 2017

FoxFire Ayderan said:
I would love to see cloud features like those in the Nasa images from orbit, with moving cloud/weather formations on the gas giants. And should we ever get atmospheric flight, things like the first image. Would be incredible to fly through that.

Speaking of which, it would also be nice to see moving cloud/weather on the rocky planets with atmospheres, including the Earth-like planets. I realize these things are often slow moving when seen from on high, but nevertheless clouds move and change over time, so it would be nice to see that in game.

At the moment the image for the non-landable bodies we see is stored as a 2D bitmap and wrapped around the spherical mesh, so I expect that won't change until we get to actually visit them, I think putting a lot of work into animating the non-landable planet images is just time taken away from what they should be doing, get us g down there!

So while it's disappointing they don't show moving clouds it's something I am prepared to put up with for now.

Becky · Nov 20, 2017

How Nasa fudge images to make them look all pretty.

[video=youtube;N5rZ9E72zbI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5rZ9E72zbI[/video]