I don't like the new ice worlds.
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I feel that I could find something like that in Horizons, minus the atmosphere. But I will take my own advice and actually see if this is true (and I'll make sure to use all of Northpin's photography advice when framing the shot). I don't doubt that this is better, but it just feels marginally better to me...
Now that looks nice and snowy! I'm pretty sure I've not seen anything like this in Horizons. Maybe it is all camera angles and trickery, but whatever the case, THIS calls to me. I want planets that feel like Hoth
I've found quite a few planets like that in Horizons, as well. While the planet was quite noisy, it lacked the detail you see in the frontier screenshots. It was no different on the ground, mind you! Max graphic settings, and it was still quite muddy.
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Now that's looking a bit closer to what I expected after all the trailers, though still lacks that sheer detail they showed off. Much less shiny muddy than my planets I found!
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Oof. This was what they wanted to get close to? Kinda missed the mark...
check this one.
The second picture is actually better than what FD marketing produced
Stellar Screenshots
but iirc someone said that only ice planets with a certain type of atmosphere are source for nice screenshots.
could be.We didn't get that, for certain. We're close on the very first image in some places. I'd love to see more translucient ice. I thought I saw it in the alpha and I was excited, but it was just a bugged texture I guess.
One day...
An approach to an iceworld with no atmosphere from earlier today
Indeed. It makes all the difference. I'm always excited when a mission takes me somewhere on the edge of the shadow.
But... I think there is something screwy going on with the planetary tech, and it's more screwy than it was in alpha (the two pics above are both from the Alpha)
In the following snap (shooting away from the light to make it look even worse) some of the mountains in the background look really crude to me. And one of the foreground texture layers is really pixelly (even though the other textures were fine). I'm noticing this more than I was in the Alpha.
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And I just sat and watched sunset turn to twilight on HMC that looked very similar to that by approaching at an oblique angle to the light.
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Look for rocky worlds with icecaps on the poles, those are consistently beautiful. Other than that, I guess it can be hit or miss. I land when something looks interesting and I’ve found some amazing stuff. One world had huge purple mountains. Don’t know what caused them to be purple. It was another High Metal Content world. It looked amazing, screenshots didn’t do it justice somehow.
The frozen lake thing looks a bit Super Mario to me, but I wonder if the problem was rendering that effect at different distances or some such. And perhaps it's actually out there somewhere. I haven't been to many places.
I like those textures.