That is what is circled.
Anyways, the other pic shows it did happen, but at a low orbit.
I'm talking about my picture, from orbit, giant countries sized areas that are repeated.
I hope this is just the tech gone wrong.
New Planet Tech is KILLER of Exploration (all terrain is tiling/repeating/not procedural/random)
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That is what is circled.
Anyways, the other pic shows it did happen, but at a low orbit.
I'm talking about my picture, from orbit, giant countries sized areas that are repeated.
I hope this is just the tech gone wrong.
Yes, I agree, therefore I have no idea how can someone claim that planets generated by CURRENT state of new tech won't get any better.
It's a rushed release, they could not prioritize aesthetics if stability and performance are so far away from finished, optimized state.
Well I just landed on a planet with a temperature of 23 kelvin. Thats low and the ground actually looked frozen solid. The ground glittered with ice as you moved. Not half a mile further on I came across a frozen desert that looked completely different to the highlands but still frozen solid, with substantial rocks everywhere.
This is orders of magnitude better than Horizons.
The "lake" literally just south of the highlands above
This is orders of magnitude better than Horizons.
The "lake" literally just south of the highlands above
Lolwhat. They havent handrafted those. Its a procgen.
I'm sure they can get better.... I'm just not convinced the juice it worth the squeeze.
But we shall see
Horizons excelled in Mid - far when it comes to visuals, and Overall when it come to terrain shape variety.
Odessey looks good up close, bad in mid and far. Terrain variety and shape it fails miserably imho.
Looks nice, can you find any canyons on the planet? Post pics if so!
It does look flat thoughAnd before I see "b-b-but it's so flat!"
PS there is naturally problem with rounded geometry on distant hills.
I knowIt does look flat though
Truth is, most of new planets are ugly.
Wet plastic look, hills like from 8/16bit demos 30 years ago.
And this would be an EDO or Horizons screenshot?
This video explain how Odyssey planet generation works (part of it)
Source: https://youtu.be/dIc0WPY63hY?t=101
Not agreed.
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That was during DW2, Horizons
Was it ever clarified that math was the only way Horizons heightmaps are generated?
I can recall way back in the early days of Horizons, maybe in the beta play... But there was a bug where some planets were found to have surface terrain that was formed by the images of NPC characters. From orbit, one could see the NPC faces very plainly shaping in the mountains and such of the planet.
So at some point, it would seem that Horizons certainly was able to use images as heightmaps for planet generation. After seeing that, my own hunch was that image heightmaps were always in the mix, at some level.
Looks good in a screenshot vs being good in game (especially for the activities peoples are talking about) is two totally different things.
And given you pull out the exact same screenshots all the time to prove your point shows that the majority of times those are the standard of the system.
Now if you kept posting lots of different 'in game' shots of you flying around so many AMAZING planets with names and locations etc then you may actually have a point rather than blindly repeating yourself.
That sounds like the Jesus biscuit.