That's okay, just make sure to use black text with a white outline.Sorry to bother, stealing that one for a meme.
That's okay, just make sure to use black text with a white outline.Sorry to bother, stealing that one for a meme.
So that's where they direct you towards when you're hostile with the local controlling faction?
It's bright where the atmosphere is still in sunlight, which you get around a bit of your picture (the sun's not directly behind the planet in yours, so the atmosphere on the opposite side to the bright one won't be illuminated at all). The unilluminated part of the atmosphere should be dark, but with a tenuous atmosphere nowhere near as dark against the (over bright) background.Yes, it's the dark side. Thus the atmosphere should be at worst dimming the star field, but typically leading light around the planet. Here, have a solar eclipse seen from the moon (belatedly noticed this is a composite illustration, need to find more raw images). Note that this has a brighter Earth than most planets would be in Elite due to the full moon's reflection, but the point is, that atmosphere is bright.
Himawari-8 night side images barely show a sliver of light (e.g. at the north side in fd__b03_1430), but those are taken from quite close to the planet. NASA's New Full-hemisphere Views of Earth at Night from 2017 show illumination on opposite sides.
I think looking at true imagery more leads to the question of not only why that is dark, but how it can be so very thick. It certainly wouldn't be in a "tenuous" atmosphere!
Yeah, when did these lilly pads start appearing? I don't recall seeing them until after the last patch (#4).
It does seem to break the ED immersion with some weird computer graphics.
You haven't been exposed to fire ants on a Texas parade ground...I don't care about bugs, they are just some funny pics. Is that more clear? I did try to explain my reasoning (so did the OP).
Would that generate a restore septic tank mission?Bug, texture issue, or an early hint of the new "Monster Truck" SRV design?
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I agree. The illustration was very exaggerated, as they tend to be. It's not the same thing as e.g. an annular eclipse. However, there's a big distinction between darkening perceptibly and forming a black band. The darkening we see looking through the atmosphere from outside should never exceed 4x the darkening we'd see standing within it, and in the sample picture we have from the game, there's visible illumination of the ground around the entire perimeter. The black band suggests that wouldn't have made it to our eyes.It's bright where the atmosphere is still in sunlight, which you get around a bit of your picture (the sun's not directly behind the planet in yours, so the atmosphere on the opposite side to the bright one won't be illuminated at all). The unilluminated part of the atmosphere should be dark, but with a tenuous atmosphere nowhere near as dark against the (over bright) background.
Any atmosphere, even a thin one, can darken perceptibly - it's how some even quite thin atmospheres were first discovered, as a star passing behind the planet or moon as seen from Earth will dim before vanishing if there is an atmosphere instead of vanishing suddenly if there isn't one. But the example you've given looks pretty excessive.
This seems to have fixed itself now....occasional glitch?Updated UI shows space legs....