Whatever it was to be honest, it was good enough to introduce enough chaos in planets.
There is no chaos in EDO.
New Planet Tech is KILLER of Exploration (all terrain is tiling/repeating/not procedural/random)
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Whatever it was to be honest, it was good enough to introduce enough chaos in planets.
There is no chaos in EDO.
I had a weird thing today where in my continuing tests of flying very quickly at low altitude, I was getting the thing I had before where the landscape became lower resolution the further I went, eventually being a sort of rolling Zarch landscape with huge patchwork squares for textures (not quick enough on the F10 to show this, but will try again) but worse than that I collided with a not-yet-full-detail hill, nearly totalling my ship. The only reason I knew what had happened was that the rocks were floating in the air (clinging to the higher-level detail underlying anything).
So it seems the engine can see the detailed geometry for positioning rocks/boulders, it can see the full detail hills for collision detection (although I maybe just collided with the rocks), but the shaders themselves can't keep up. You can fly faster than they're generated. And this is a thing that isn't just a cosmetic problem, it's potentially a rebuy screen problem.
That's my guess at what was happening, at any rate.
So it seems the engine can see the detailed geometry for positioning rocks/boulders, it can see the full detail hills for collision detection (although I maybe just collided with the rocks), but the shaders themselves can't keep up. You can fly faster than they're generated. And this is a thing that isn't just a cosmetic problem, it's potentially a rebuy screen problem.
That's my guess at what was happening, at any rate.
I'd always assumed so, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were some masks over the top to make mountains pointier etc...
Yep, now you know how miners were feeling every time FD made hotspots reshuffle.
Searching for overlaps again and again...
Those I just saved from screenshots thread, theres plenty more, see for youself.
Me vs the guy she told me not to worry about. I mean look at the sky and the canyon vs mummy's face and a painted skybox from 2012.
I'm sorry for your loss, hope they'll fix this.
What? Theres a plenty of ruggy looking planets.
I think you can see what you are describing on Obsidianant video (the one before the last one, I'll find the link) - he shows how the textures pop up in front of the ship. But yeah I hear you how it crosses from visuals to gameplay
The Al Murray "How to be a Gentleman" face on the suggested videos after yours played out was perfect.
Will watch.
Ultimate proof that Youtube AI is spying the viewers if they have camera over monitor
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Textures?
I had small hills raising or flattening in front of me as I was flying low.
I assumed it's a common bug, don't know why actually
Start at 6 min.
Edit : Ok of it's hills you might want to report that as a separate bug in the issue tracker
Horizons can only dream of such rough realistic landscape.
Someone literally posted a screenshots a few post early with a beautiful sets of canyon under a sky that was not full black. And you might remember the community who used to have races in canyon in odyssey.
Also, nice try taking the pictures when the star is low, so that the big shadows give an effect on the canyons to make them look deeper than they are. But from what I'm standing, they seems not very very deep.
Those canyons are not trealistic. What formed them ? They follow no patterns, they are random. The other guys canyon from Horizon does follow a pattern. Ripples and a long canyon.
Finally, all the pictures and ingame experience I had are either white flat desert with occasional big bump, or the "dessicated mud" terrain like you have there.
I'm having a hard time deciding what's worse. The chicken scratched clay balls or the skybox.
Holy sheet! xD