Seen from the ground ? Some formations vanishes when you start to go down.
Not doubting, genuine question.
New Planet Tech is KILLER of Exploration (all terrain is tiling/repeating/not procedural/random)
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Not doubting, genuine question.
I think the most offputting part of the graphics is the absence of any definition (surface roughness, gravel, stones and rocks) in the distant ground textures.
Yes, the lighting is different between the old location and the new one for Felicity's base so that accounts for a small part of the overall poor impression, but even so the surrounding landscape should not look this smooth, featureless and lacking in distant detail. Something's definitely up...
The same goes for the procgen textures when light is shining straight down onto planet surfaces from orbit. The planet surfaces in Odyssey seem to lack detail and become blotchy, flat and lifeless with little progressive blending and transition between between darker and lighter patches and seem to have huge, lifeless and monotonely coloured basins. If viewed straight down from the sunlit side it's as if each planet consists of three or four different flat colours. When surfaces are lit at an angle the height maps do a good job of conveying surface unevenness from orbit though. I'm pretty sure that Odyssey procgen is not all lost but it, and more importantly the Odyssey textures and lighting, definitely require a lot of work from the devs to get surfaces to spring to life from all angles and give any kind of illusion of depth and texture.
Of note: the reason I'm forcing 8xAA in the control panel is because the built in AA settings barely do anything for the close up surface textures, either on foot or in SRV. The detailed ground (wonderful when viewed up close or on foot) simply vanish into a blur mere meters away. Something's up with that too.
Normally I block folk like him, but he amuses me, and I'll take anything that makes me laugh right now.Your hyperbole has reached new heights. Far higher than anything achievable in Odyssey, I'd say.
After all, in my last post I did say I was going to the circus!
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Hope is all that's left, but feels more like being deliberately gullible now. There's a 25km deep crater on Enceladus in Odyssey? That'd be really something re; height variance for sure - wouldn't mind seeing a screenshot of that!
Not much good for flyin' around probably, but maybe it's got some good smashed up stuff in the bottom with some height to it too - bounceback or somethin.
The ship is plainly high in orbit in that pic, those canyons were quite a bit deeper than ship height.
Ditto this moon:
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Craters aren't enough-- but it might mean the new engine can at least support extreme terrain features.
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Maybe a little, but probably not even nearly as much as you think. They have a tendency to shrink as you descend.
I think the deepest I've seen so far in Odyssey (excluding the 'handcrafted' Pom 2C) is about 1km.
OK, so we have four cloned elements there.
I totally understand how depressing it can be for an explorer.
But
What about the rest of planet?
Is it "copypasted" too but we just have no reference yet?
if not, and the rest is pure proc gen - are there any interesting (in exploring context) features?
Do we have answers to all important questions, or are we still on emotional, initial ride of disappointment?
I totally understand how depressing it can be for an explorer.
But
What about the rest of planet?
Is it "copypasted" too but we just have no reference yet?
if not, and the rest is pure proc gen - are there any interesting (in exploring context) features?
Do we have answers to all important questions, or are we still on emotional, initial ride of disappointment?
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That should annoy you more than the fact that it exists, since this is supposed to be a released product.
"Of course, then you get down on the surface and realise all that stuff is barely higher than your ship."
Your ship is nearly a kilometre high? WOW!
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They can just exclude those planets from regeneration I guess.
You dont see that half of the planet is copy-pasted?
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It only takes one look at how human models look and behave on the sloped/uneven terrain to understand why planets were "flattened" to make it more "walkable". It's a horrible excuse and whoever came up with that idea should have chosen a different career path. Instead of detailing the animation and collision they went with the easiest and most damaging workaround.
This tile issue might even be a result of that as well as if you have pre-build areas it is much easier to make sure they are more "walk friendly".
This tile issue might even be a result of that as well as if you have pre-build areas it is much easier to make sure they are more "walk friendly".
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My bad. It's getting hard to keep track of who's arguing what at this point. I thought you were suggesting something different
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No, but 1 km is not much while he's flying 900 m/s. You don't know what he's doing, do you?