Once planets with atmospheres are landable, will they look like this?
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This may be from 2012, but it's only a tech demo and not comparable to a full-blown game. It has one single planetary surface while Elite has to work with a whole star system, background simulation etc.
Also it probably uses hardware that would be enough to run Elite twice on highest settings.
I suggest you take a look at the planets that are landable in the game right now, and add a few oceans and atmosphere in your imagination. I don't think it will look much better than that, at least as long as Frontier doesn't plan to drastically change their system requirements.
Also it probably uses hardware that would be enough to run Elite twice on highest settings.
I suggest you take a look at the planets that are landable in the game right now, and add a few oceans and atmosphere in your imagination. I don't think it will look much better than that, at least as long as Frontier doesn't plan to drastically change their system requirements.
as Lysander said, it will probably be better. It would be really disappointing if it looked like that.
No it will be better
lol yeah right
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It will most defintely look better. You only have to take a look at what the current technology is doing in Outerra & Space engine.
This video is old..
[video=youtube;s3ou65tURHw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3ou65tURHw[/video]
[video=youtube;Ovfhv_9-KIg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovfhv_9-KIg&list=PLdu92_5JG9wDpuoo6Bsg5d35jz7XTUzDO[/video]
[video=youtube;TUOgf3YPgfw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUOgf3YPgfw[/video]
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Probably more like this.
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We agree!No it will be better
it would be interesting to turn around and see just what damage your ship did to the beautiful scenery flying past at 400 m/s
Well, that is what FD is planning. But to be honest I don't know at what level they will do it.
Craith
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Well, the clouds in Planet Coaster look not that far from the clouds in the video. I do hope the coasts and the water look better, but the lighting will not be as good. Terrain is already better in the planets we have now. So overall, i predict/hope it will be better than above overall.
I hope it will look that good, and remember there are a lot of different planets with atmospheres. Not just earth likes but methane, nitrogen, ammonia, well you get the picture. How would the sunset look on the different atmospheres? There are many things to look into here. Although creating earth likes first would be a step in the right direction if its hard to do all at the same time.
It will definitely look better, you'll also be able to play in it.
If you haven't done so, download outtera Anteworld and Space Engine.
Anteworld is a pg Earth, still WIP. Space Engine is a pg 1:1 scale universe created by one guy.
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We already have believable gravity effects on planets, so the sky's the limit as they say.
If you haven't done so, download outtera Anteworld and Space Engine.
Anteworld is a pg Earth, still WIP. Space Engine is a pg 1:1 scale universe created by one guy.
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We already have believable gravity effects on planets, so the sky's the limit as they say.
Thus passes the glory of the world indeed.
Especially the worlds in human hands.
Who knows. But we don't have volumetric lighting today, even though there are environments that support it. We don't have sun influenced cloud lighting today. We do have assets for creating procedural generated clouds, as it's been shown in one of the earlier dev diaries.
I'm hoping it will look like the first vid.
I'm hoping it will look like the first vid.
dayrth
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I suspect flight would be a log slower in atmosphere.
There is no logical reason for it to be any slower, power from thrusters will be sufficient, heat buildup from drag will be nothing compared to scooping from a star's corona.