And also this, they seem to be aware:
Source: https://twitter.com/drkayross/status/1396822807548469251?s=19
New Planet Tech is KILLER of Exploration (all terrain is tiling/repeating/not procedural/random)
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This is how I would visualize this thread:
"Exploring commander's reaction to Odyssey after more details about new planetary technology emerges"
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But this isn't a bug. This is by design. They designed the planet tech this way.
Edit: That is, to use "terrain shapes" generated offline, instead of mathematically produce the terrain height maps. Dr. Ross said so herself.
Edit: That is, to use "terrain shapes" generated offline, instead of mathematically produce the terrain height maps. Dr. Ross said so herself.
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That interview does not fare well in light of the release; I liked this bit in particular:
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Q: Would you say your approach for Odyssey is more accurate?
Yes, we've got the layers going from the top level down. We're trying to get the detail in all the way in, and represent it from a distance, so you can see the detail from further out which makes a lot of difference. The system we made for Horizons was good for Horizons, I'm very proud of what the team did and the results you can get from it. I still from this day enjoy looking at screenshots on Twitter and lurking in streams! But to look forward to whatever comes next for Odyssey, I wanted a system that was robust enough to handle things without having to do another remake of any of the tech, that's why it's changed and we have all that detail.
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Spoke to soon, perhaps?
I think there is a difference between "shouting" and pointing to something politely and backing it with some facts.Despite the hysterics, there is a system for reporting problems. Shouting at individuals on social media isn't the way.
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what makes you think these are hand made pieces? They’re all subtly different. This looks to me more like a case of an algorithm without sufficient entropy.
Chill out and keep showing Frontier examples of the problems including what the location of the planets are so they can look at them and m I’m sure they’ll fix it.
sure they shouldn’t have launched like this... but whatever, deal with it. It’ll get better.
Chill out and keep showing Frontier examples of the problems including what the location of the planets are so they can look at them and m I’m sure they’ll fix it.
sure they shouldn’t have launched like this... but whatever, deal with it. It’ll get better.
Another expert speaks.
You really liked the "new" tech?
Really professional
Excellent answer.
I've not checked the interaction between that user and Dr Kay, however I'm well aware of others respectfully discussing this with her and being politely asked as in the image above to please use the official issue tracker, and not being blocked. I imagine there was a reason that person was however blocked.
Do you know how many DMs she might have received and in what tone?
We're only seeing one side of the coin here: what if she was being flloded with insisting messages, or being harrassed?
I done nothing. Simple question and link to this thead.
No, I see problems as mentioned between alpha and live, and between pre-alpha and alpha and then live as well.
What I see here though is people claiming problems with the tech are "not bugs", but "by design", and using words like "lazy", when they have no clue what they are talking about. None of US do.
I don't know if that's even possible at this point - my understanding is that ODYSSEY constitutes a largely new code-base as the old code was too brittle to really move forward with these kinds of changes.
So have I and she didn't block me (see above). Strange.
Thanks for posting this. Having now read what Dr. Ross said carefully, alarm bells should have been ringing. Now we know exactly what she meant when she said:
"For Horizons, that terrain is generated entirely mathematically. There was a lot of effort put into representing the kind of shapes a hill or canyon makes, just using maths."
"For Odyssey... we're talking up 100km worth of terrain for example, which are now generated offline into terrain shapes that we know are formed."
Tweeting "What about that?" and a link to a hysterical thread might be taken as a little rude, for someone you don't know, or just the straw that broke the camel's back.
Cause planets generates by textures now, not by noises in Horizons. Props - planets looks more realistic and variety. Cons - this "patches" repeated, coz they are handcrafted (like Star Citizen planets). I dunno why people prefer Horizons planets, very plain, all the same and CANYONS (only interesting places to visit).