I just came down on the dark side of a planet and the whole surface was illuminated by NV. I've never seen that happen before. Maybe just lucky timing as it's transitioning to "daytime"?
Has night vision been stealth enhanced?
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Side note: Night vision should be the color of your choosing?
I've landed here many times in the dark and never, ever had this effect before. I had the "appearance" of NV all the way down to landing this time.
Probably just a lighting glitch then? In any case I like this effect much better than total darkness until NV usually kicks in...
Edit: or foreshadowing of things to come with the Odyssey drop
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side note to side note:
There are three types of technology used in night vision goggles, scopes, and cameras. First one is thermal imaging – it detects the temperature difference between the background and the foreground. The second type of technology is active illumination technology that couples imaging intensification with a source of illumination in the near infrared band. The third one, image intensification, holds the answer as to why night vision is green. Image intensification technology provides us with that famous bright green light in night vision goggles.
It maximizes the amount of light received from natural sources such as starlight or moonlight and “amplifies” it in night vision devices so that we get as clear image as possible. Unfortunately, this means that night vision goggles with this technology can’t work in complete darkness, since it actually doesn’t amplify the light, rather it illuminates it up to a level at which the human eye can detect it. When photons hit the lens at the front of night vision goggles, they are still carrying the light of all colors. But when they are turned into electrons they lose that information and incoming color light is turned into black and white. But why is night vision green then?
The first reason is that image intensification screen inside the device is made of phosphor. This substance is used because of its luminance effect and when struck by electrons which don’t carry color information it glows bright green. Green phosphor is used because the human eye is most sensitive to the green color pallet.
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I've landed here many times in the dark and never, ever had this effect before. I had the "appearance" of NV all the way down to landing this time.
Probably just a lighting glitch then? In any case I like this effect much better than total darkness until NV usually kicks in...
Edit: or foreshadowing of things to come with the Odyssey drop
You'll currently only get this when this Body is being eclipsed, at which point you don't need to be on the dark/backside of it...
I guess it was just lucky timing then. Too bad, I liked this effect much more than coming down in total darkness.
No, NO, NOOOOO! Next thing you'll want is customizable HUD colors!