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

[VR Lucian Arkright]

That's for the cultural difference

So in the german version he takes the kids because he is a catcher and they didn't pay him, in the english he's just that dude singing Safety Dance and didn't get paid

Well, he still takes the kids for not being paid for getting rid of the rats. The only real difference, is instead of being "The Rat Catcher of..." he's "The Pied Piper...", because of his unusual clothing and use of a pipe (flute) to catch rats.

 

[Amy Pendergast]

Well, he still takes the kids for not being paid for getting rid of the rats. The only real difference, is instead of being "The Rat Catcher of..." he's "The Pied Piper...", because of his unusual clothing and use of a pipe (flute) to catch rats.

Oh, we are so far OT here...

 

[VR Lucian Arkright]

Oh, we are so far OT here...

whistles innocently

 

[hunvagy]

Well, he still takes the kids for not being paid for getting rid of the rats. The only real difference, is instead of being "The Rat Catcher of..." he's "The Pied Piper...", because of his unusual clothing and use of a pipe (flute) to catch rats.

Yeah, sorry, I was just making fun of the whole situation. I kinda got the idea that the story is largely unchanged

 

[VR Lucian Arkright]

Hamlyn

Yeah, sorry, I was just making fun of the whole situation. I kinda got the idea that the story is largely unchanged

Oh, we are so far OT here...

To be fair, its more interesting than rehashing the same arguments again!

 

[Rat Catcher]

Hamlyn

Yes, that was the spelling in one of the versions I read as a youngster (just after the dinosaurs died off...) too.

I don't think I can fit all the versions on just one ship...

Of course this is not OT... Music is repeating patterns too

 

[Navigare Necesse Est]

At risk of coming across as patronising :

pied
/pʌɪd/
adjective
having two or more different colours

So, in the English version, they decided to focus on his garb rather than his profession for the name of the story.

Oh, and here I wondered how they got the idea the piper was thrown pies at.

 

[Just]

Some self-promotion.
I found a real beauty of planet.
Landscapes are... impressive.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threa...reenshots-thread.568114/page-118#post-9230510

 

[VR Lucian Arkright]

Oh, and here I wondered how they got the idea the piper was thrown pies at.

Well, he was on the Kranky Show...

 

[Just]

Oh, and here I wondered how they got the idea the piper was thrown pies at.

Someone misspelled it as pie-per.

 

[varonica]

I'm pretty sure I explicitly said in what you quoted that not everyone uses it, but oh well.

You also said the use of DOF tells you that it was post processed because DOF is definitely not anywhere in ED, and yet there it is, right in the in game camera suite!

 

[CMDR Sheehy]

You also said the use of DOF tells you that it was post processed because DOF is definitely not anywhere in ED, and yet there it is, right in the in game camera suite!

@hunvagy

 

[Sakashiro]

That is their own issue and thought, and certainly nothing to do with the comment I'd made, but thanks for dropping by

Always glad to help and contribute some precise thought to your paraphrasing.

 

[Rat Catcher]

Always glad to help and contribute some precise thought to your paraphrasing.

Drop by anytime... Social distancing will soon be over

 

[hunvagy]

You also said the use of DOF tells you that it was post processed because DOF is definitely not anywhere in ED, and yet there it is, right in the in game camera suite!

Well, in that case I was wrong about the DOF.

 

[dannysquid]

Always pleased to see Caddyshack gifs.

 

[Just]

Well, in that case I was wrong about the DOF.

Tiresome folk, ain't they?

 

[Leadfoot]

Sadly not, still runs like trash on my Ryzen 7 2700X and my RTX 2060 in 1080p.

If anything, some things got worse. Remember how it says they lowered gamma on planets? Well yes, they are lowered. Instead I saw a glow-in-the-dark xmas tree in the agro station, the lighting was completely borked on the hydroponics.

Hi, please check the post in this other thread (you might have seen it already). Not the entire thread, just the post for this link:

What is FDEV doing and what happened to Brabens dreams?

This thread is super interesting (and kind of terrifying). I really wonder if its true that all the people who built the Cobra engine have left - it would certainly explain a lot. Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/nj1f5x/odyssey_renderer_is_broken_details/

forums.frontier.co.uk

Is this related to the issues you're referencing?

 

[FutronBob]

From my experience it's not the atmosphere. It's almost like some planets use an entirely different generation system.

Ever since Tuesday’s hotfix 3, most of the planets I’ve visited have looked absolutely breathtaking on foot or in the SRV, the majority of them airless worlds.

However, I’ve noticed that at certain distances while in the ship, some planets still have some major LOD issues, where you can clearly see patchwork texture squares and low-poly heightmaps. The issue seems to go away once you get out on foot, but just getting back into the cockpit can bring the LOD back down dramatically.

The weird thing is It doesn’t happen consistently for every planet. Some seem to be totally unaffected by it and look great at any distance. But when it does happen it’s very jarring and obvious.


Regardless, I’m loving planetary exploration post-hotfix 3, and it won’t be long before I need a new hard drive to store all my sceenshots.

 

[fourrunes]

The Patch, even though said nothing about fixing planets, had changed planets significantly for me.
The dark grey is gone as a whole.

Planet textures though look very pixelated, especially from a distance (ultra or low, doest not matter here) I'll share some screenshots when I can