Then if thats the case I think it should be reported as a bug
Not another graphical change! (AKA What have you done to my Nebula?)
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Then if thats the case I think it should be reported as a bug
This is true. They need to add in the ability to use a slider or setting to increase detail levels for many areas that they've dialed down, along with an option to finally customize HUD colors.
Seems pretty amazing that on this entire thread, only 1 post mentioned the fact that the Horsehead Nebula has no... well, horsehead...
It was my first destination when I decided to leave the populated bubble, and I got so sad upon arriving there, that I just came back home and didn't do much exploring since. Awful resolution, and far from what real imagery has shown us.
@Granite, I do agree that Gamma looks a LOT better... more sharp and crisp lines, with distinct, noticeable features... As for the current one, looks just like a random blob.
As for the remaining nebulae, they do look quite similar, to the point they seem just the same version but on a different perspective.
All this really brings me down, because as an amateur astronomer, I bought the game based on the "scientific accuracy" of the Milky Way in ED, and although it is pretty cool to look at some well known stars and fly there, I still believe that Nebulae are the real reason people like me started playing this game. It's a shame they're not getting the love they deserve.
It was my first destination when I decided to leave the populated bubble, and I got so sad upon arriving there, that I just came back home and didn't do much exploring since. Awful resolution, and far from what real imagery has shown us.
@Granite, I do agree that Gamma looks a LOT better... more sharp and crisp lines, with distinct, noticeable features... As for the current one, looks just like a random blob.
As for the remaining nebulae, they do look quite similar, to the point they seem just the same version but on a different perspective.
All this really brings me down, because as an amateur astronomer, I bought the game based on the "scientific accuracy" of the Milky Way in ED, and although it is pretty cool to look at some well known stars and fly there, I still believe that Nebulae are the real reason people like me started playing this game. It's a shame they're not getting the love they deserve.
Somebody mentioned a tweak in the ED & SweetFX topic, you might wanna try that:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=87727&page=81&p=3175391&viewfull=1#post3175391
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=87727&page=81&p=3175391&viewfull=1#post3175391
I think Nebulae will improve during game development in the next phases....keep in mind that a lot of astronomical object are still missing and the current we have are not very detailed as we expected....it seems horizons will be the first step, fixing rocky bodies (maybe the simple to improve ATM) and hopefully will be the time for :
gas giants,adding thunderstorms and lighting effect in the dark side,
rings,
other astronomical object,
stars more different from each others,
jetstreams from nearby stars,
accretion discs,
comets and maybe better nebulae rendering
It will be a process that will require time and resources, and our current PC are not enough powerful to run all those features(judging how Horizons currently run)...but it will happen hopefully.
I have the idea that almost all this ''sandbox'' is still a lot placeholder,but back on topic, it seems that all those nebulae are under bug.
My 2 cents
gas giants,adding thunderstorms and lighting effect in the dark side,
rings,
other astronomical object,
stars more different from each others,
jetstreams from nearby stars,
accretion discs,
comets and maybe better nebulae rendering
It will be a process that will require time and resources, and our current PC are not enough powerful to run all those features(judging how Horizons currently run)...but it will happen hopefully.
I have the idea that almost all this ''sandbox'' is still a lot placeholder,but back on topic, it seems that all those nebulae are under bug.
My 2 cents
I made a thread a while ago with these screenshots in, but i'll repost them here as a comparison of high and low res nebulae. The only way at the time i could force the game to display high res nebula was to edit the config to show 0 low res nebulae, this only showing one (high res) one at a time. Not sure if it's still the case that you can only force high res in this way, i saw a post by someone who claimed you could get more at once, but i've not tried it.
This was taken at a time before the debug camera was available...
Inside the Butterfly nebula:
Low res (standard):
High res:
This is the Seagull Nebula, the first shots are the normal maximum settings, and the second with the forced high resolution...
This was taken at a time before the debug camera was available...
Inside the Butterfly nebula:
Low res (standard):
High res:
This is the Seagull Nebula, the first shots are the normal maximum settings, and the second with the forced high resolution...
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A good way to test is to look at the config edits and play the cobra faceoff training because in its current form it orbits a nebula.
I just messed with the config a bit , and indeed setting low res to 0 and high res to anything will only render one nebula...
Hope to see this improved , starting to miss the days of 2D backgrounds
Remeber how awesome the milky way used to look during beta? that was 3d and looked amazing... wonder why everything has to go down in terms of graphics...
I just messed with the config a bit , and indeed setting low res to 0 and high res to anything will only render one nebula...
Hope to see this improved , starting to miss the days of 2D backgrounds
Remeber how awesome the milky way used to look during beta? that was 3d and looked amazing... wonder why everything has to go down in terms of graphics...
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The issue with the nebulas still seems to be there. They're still being rendered at a very low resolution ingame, even though they're being rendered at a high resolution in the galaxy map. I made my first roadtrip to one last night, and was wondering "this is a joke, right?" when I reached it.
well, there is no true color image of space whatsoever. your first image was a composite, the 2nd infrared, for example. all hubble (or deep space) images are approximations regarding color. heck, even our sun is not yellow, you wouldn't even see solar flares. it has the only color something hot like it can have: blinding white, at least to our eyes. (fun fact, it leans into the green spectrum of the visible light, but you can't notice that without equipment.) so you might want rethink your expectations. FD has taken enough artistic liberties with visual representation (they have to, otherwise the game would have been a lot more boring, visually speaking) cudos to them, as it's no easy split between visually interesting and scientific accurate. take wolf rayet stars for example. the hubble pictures are stunning (looks like a nova in process), but the FD approach is much more how it would likely look to us.
That's a major graphical downgrade of Nebula from Gamma 1.05 to 2.2. We need to set the Nebula graphics quality options. Cause with the latest graphics cards it could look so much better.
I also didn't know that nebulas ingame were looking SO MUCH more greater than now. Just wow!!!! I wanna have this!
Sometimes it is good to dig out old threads xD
Sometimes it is good to dig out old threads xD
The horse head nebula only looks like a horse head from Earth. If we move position, then it will look very different. In principle it works like this:
[video=youtube;PiYMol0VjWo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiYMol0VjWo[/video]
It would seem to indicate that for some reason instead of loading the high res nebular's for the closest ones, it is just loading low res regardless?
Frankly, I'd rather see the stunning nebulae representation in ED, as it just looks so much great. With superb details, shining colours, simply breathtaking. My drive to first leave the bubble and go somewhere in the galaxy was also to be stunned by the beauty of a close look on a nebula. I still hope, that in some future release, all nebulaes will be much improved to get closer to something like this:
This along with the fact that we see Nebulae because we are very very far away, the actual gas density would mean that when we approach these regions they will likely vanish. If we was inside some of these nebulae, we might not even notice we are inside anything at all. Gas density being only like 10x that of the regular 2-3 particles per cubic meter.
