MY GOD- Its full of stars!

SirKiwi

SirKiwi
Bizarre exploration occurrence!

So I am doing some exploration by the Great Annihilator, and I jumped into a system to be greeted with this-
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This all appeared in one jump. The biggest, brightest grouping of stars I've ever seen. Anyone have a decent explanation for this?
At the very least, it is a gorgeous sight, and still in the sky with me.
 
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Armante

Armante
Jumped into a stellar nursery that's inside a dark dust cloud? If such a thing is possible? :)

Nice find, SirKiwi. Good to see a fellow NZ'er exploring the galaxy!
 

SirKiwi

SirKiwi
Armante said:
Jumped into a stellar nursery that's inside a dark dust cloud? If such a thing is possible? :)

Nice find, SirKiwi. Good to see a fellow NZ'er exploring the galaxy!
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Thanks! I was wondering that, its seems unlikley though.
Also, not from New Zealand, but I love the country and the bird dearly :D
 

SirKiwi

SirKiwi
Armante said:
Ah - well it is a fine country and bird you have chosen there.

You know Kiwis can't fly, right? ;)
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I like to think I know everything to know about kiwis! They may be flightless and silly looking, but they lay eggs 1/3 of their body size and kick like ninjas with their claws :eek:
 

Jesters09

Jesters09
Nice find, I've seen posts by others of such things, but not seen one myself yet.
But as the saying goes, you have to be in it to win it.
 

Eldrazzi

Eldrazzi
If I recall (could be wrong) the "skybox" only displays the closest 160,000 stars. I think Braben said that or some similar number during an interview. Apparently your jump was sufficient to bring them into view. You could test this by jumping back out the way you came in and see if the disappear. Other than that I don't have an explanation.

My first thought though... "My God, it's full of rooms".
 

Danvees Mc.Mirror

Danvees Mc.Mirror
SirKiwi said:
So I am doing some exploration by the Great Annihilator, and I jumped into a system to be greeted with this-
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This all appeared in one jump. The biggest, brightest grouping of stars I've ever seen. Anyone have a decent explanation for this?
At the very least, it is a gorgeous sight, and still in the sky with me.
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Amazing! Wich system is that?
 

Bluebottle

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I've been looking into this in my explorations, and it appears to boil down to two things:

1. The skybox only displays stars a certain distance away.
2. The star generation works block by block in large cubes. Within each block, the density of each type of star is fixed. The density can change drastically between adjacent blocks, with little or no blending to soften the edges.

This is normally unnoticeable in inhabited space, but if as you get near the core you will encounter blocks with a very high density of bright stars, which suddenly appear like that.

There's actually a feature in the generation that means that there are almost no very bright stars in an 800LY-wide corridor centered on the direct line between Sol and the core, so if you're near the core, and your X position approaches 400 or -400, you'll see half the sky bright like that and the other half dim ... quite a remarkable sight! I've put some screenshots in this thread: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=114737
 

SirKiwi

SirKiwi
Danvees Mc.Mirror said:
Amazing! Wich system is that?
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Will update thread once I get home if I can find the name

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Bluebottle said:
I've been looking into this in my explorations, and it appears to boil down to two things:

1. The skybox only displays stars a certain distance away.
2. The star generation works block by block in large cubes. Within each block, the density of each type of star is fixed. The density can change drastically between adjacent blocks, with little or no blending to soften the edges.

This is normally unnoticeable in inhabited space, but if as you get near the core you will encounter blocks with a very high density of bright stars, which suddenly appear like that.

There's actually a feature in the generation that means that there are almost no very bright stars in an 800LY-wide corridor centered on the direct line between Sol and the core, so if you're near the core, and your X position approaches 400 or -400, you'll see half the sky bright like that and the other half dim ... quite a remarkable sight! I've put some screenshots in this thread: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=114737
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Interesting.stuff, thanks for the explanation.
 
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