Ring system that Adam showed.

[vermu]

New fog looked nice and light rays were nice but one thing struck me. Why the shadows were all crisp? Shouldn't there be very smooth shadows when the light is coming through such a dense fog? I know soft shadows take longer to calculate but it was the only thing that didn't look cool to my eyes.

Adan said that some things are meant for high end pc's. I am pretty sure high end pc could calculate those soft shadows.

I was expecting to see new visual improvements in live game. Like station interiors etc. They were near asteroid base and yet they didn't visit it. It felt like they are still adjusting it and not ready to show it live. But we will see that in beta.

 

[Bryan K]

New fog looked nice and light rays were nice but one thing struck me. Why the shadows were all crisp? Shouldn't there be very smooth shadows when the light is coming through such a dense fog? I know soft shadows take longer to calculate but it was the only thing that didn't look cool to my eyes.

Adan said that some things are meant for high end pc's. I am pretty sure high end pc could calculate those soft shadows.

I was expecting to see new visual improvements in live game. Like station interiors etc. They were near asteroid base and yet they didn't visit it. It felt like they are still adjusting it and not ready to show it live. But we will see that in beta.

I hope they stop to test these changes in VR. Shadows have a tendency to re-orient every time I turn my head right now, so that could make flying through a ring system a tad unpleasant.

 

[JesusOnEez]

It was sped up a fair bit, so maybe at normal speed it'd look better...it's also still a WIP remember. I loved the way light rays were moving through the fog. Beautiful.

 

[vermu]

Yeah, could be the speed. Could be also the fact that console wouldn't handle it. I'll test that first thing in beta.

 

[Flimley]

The asteroids are massive. I wonder if this makes a difference. Meaning, close up the blurred edges of shadows are apparent but far away they appear sharp?
Who knows.

Flimley

 

[c00ky1970]

What we need is some sort of early access to these changes, where we could test it and find out how it works and report back to FDev if it didn’t go right!

I am not sure if they would do something so silly as that though!

;-)