New Planet Tech is KILLER of Exploration (all terrain is tiling/repeating/not procedural/random)

[Remus]

I say, to those that want to return to full procedural.

Let them!

I'm sure they did enjoy all those nice BEIGE planets back in the day!

 

[SpaceIsHuge]

I haven't seen any planet that looks close to that yet, especially from that far away.

Enable UltraforCapture. This is the only real representation of planets.

 

[Spaceman Si]

Hooray for everything. nothing \o/

Flimley

I think that's the saddest thing I've seen on the fora

The day that Flimley doesn't Hooray Everything is a very bad one.

 

[SpaceIsHuge]

Mind you that some people on the "screenshots" thread actually admit to using sharpen filter....

Oh, this will change a lot for sure and totally rewrite all planet surface!

 

[CMDR Sheehy]

Mind you that some people on the "screenshots" thread actually admit to using sharpen filter....

Mine are completely unfiltered fwiw.

 

[Just]

Wyrd B2 usage of the same predefined surface block multiple times confirmed.
So, this will be the second, waiting for more before I can acknowledge this specific problem is a plague

 

[Amy Pendergast]

Oh, this will change a lot for sure and totally rewrite all planet surface!

Could you please stop trolling?

I've seen both variants - obvious tiling and some where I can't see patterns.

So stop invalidating other people's experience, pls

 

[photomankc]

Except in EDO what you see from orbit is not the terrain that is actually shown on the planet surface after de-orbiting to land. At least that was my experience with 17 planets that have an atmosphere.

Im going to keep my eyes open for this because so far I have not run into it. I'll vid capture if I catch it happening. Details I have seen change as I approach but If I spot a hole, crater, mountain, or gorge from space I'm able to follow right in to the feature on the planet. I've yet to see something like that video happen to me. Hope I don't too.

 

[Just]

Wyrd B2 usage of the same predefined surface block multiple times confirmed.
So, this would be be the second example, waiting for more before I can acknowledge this specific problem is a plague

 

[jammedhamed]

Enable UltraforCapture. This is the only real representation of planets.

enable ultra what now?

 

[J Michaelson]

I don't what everyone is complaining about... I mean this is just next-level planet tech in action here

 

[SpaceIsHuge]

There are literally 5 settings for terrain, and you are telling that having they all set to the lowest is intended, and then you go on a personal attack.

You are really a nice person.

Also it's a DOWNGRADE from horizon, who worked fine. Just saying.

Just saying that only REAL model of the planet is shown in UltraforCapture mode. Other stuff is fake approx representation. So why you angry so much? This doesnt change that all planets are truly unique and dont have any repeatable patterns. You can easily see it with UltraforCapture mode.

 

[Erei]

enable ultra what now?

Terrain generation quality :

It's likely a leftover of when they were doing promotional shot, but they forget to remove it.

 

[Amy Pendergast]

I don't what everyone is complaining about... I mean this is just next-level planet tech in action here

Okay I think you found the most obvious sample for a problem, uff

 

[Erei]

Just saying that only REAL model of the planet is shown in UltraforCapture mode. Other stuff is fake approx representation. So why you angry so much? This doesnt change that all planets are truly unique and dont have any repeatable patterns. You can easily see it with UltraforCapture mode.

I'm not angry, and you are saying that
1/4settings are identical
2/the setting is worst than horizon

and yet, that's ok. There are no issue there.


I'm sure I can also play the game with 600+fps on the NASA supercomputer, but I wouldn't take that as the base for optimization.

 

[cmdr Temeleen]

Enable UltraforCapture. This is the only real representation of planets.

stupid question - how do I enable it?

 

[SpaceIsHuge]

enable ultra what now?

Option for terrain quality.

 

[Erei]

stupid question - how do I enable it?

I posted a screenshot. option graphics, look at screenshot, do it.

Be aware, however, it's very demanding. It will probably be ok in space (depending on your computer), but I don't want to imagine in a CZ.

 

[SpaceIsHuge]

stupid question - how do I enable it?

Check your landcape gfx settings, its there.

 

[Old Duck]

What bothers me in all these discussions is that some people take the worst screenshots of Odyssey they can find and compare it to the best Horizons screenshots they can find.

Currently I don't wear my fanboy trousers so I am not going to claim that there aren't issues. But I think it's just fair when we also look at the planets which do look awesome.

Boring ice planets bother me less if there are some diamonds in the rough. It actually gives some extra purpose to exploration, finding those rare lovely planets! That's why I left that thread on a positive note, because there was ample proof provided that there are some really nice planets in Odyssey.

But the pictures in this thread (particularly the one I'll include below) that clearly show blatant, obvious, ugly pattern repetition, that really kills it for me. I know we all have different tolerance levels for things, but for me, that's right up there with Elephant Butt Leather and Dancing Disco Shadows. To be clear, I'm talking about the huge macro-level "in your face" canyons and such. I'm more tolerant of small repeating cracks in the ground that you basically have to circle to identify.

BTW, I'm not a fan of repetition in clouds in Horizons, either. Every single planet has a dozen hurricanes going at the same time? I don't like it! Butit's not a game-breaker for me, because I rarely get that close to non-landable planets to observe this, whereas AFAIK the OP is focusing on new landable, explorable planets.