Is there any way of pointing to a star in the skybox and identifying what it is?
Stellarium Mode?
- Thread starter Cmdr Sharky
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No, the skybox is a 2d bitmap generated from the actual location of stars in the ED galaxy, it doesn't carry any location data.
there is the option to target stars in galaxy map and see the marker on your hud and nail it down.
from your coordinates and coordinates of two significant known stars you can guesstimate the cone/line on which "your" star is to reduce guessing.
Yes I know, but the Stellarium app on my phone doesn't read its data from the sky either. It works out what should be in that direction. It should be easy for the game to do that as well.
Hi All 
Interesting topic (for me at any rate).
Coincidently I was wondering about this yesterday, when seeing a certain star from the cockpit of my ship, pinpoint it, and target it in the galactic map.
Seems you can do this then, albeit in a roundabout way.
I'll have to try this method as goemon suggests.
Jack
Interesting topic (for me at any rate).
Coincidently I was wondering about this yesterday, when seeing a certain star from the cockpit of my ship, pinpoint it, and target it in the galactic map.
Seems you can do this then, albeit in a roundabout way.
I'll have to try this method as goemon suggests. Jack
I think it would be a great addition to the galaxy map, to switch to a first person view and show the star names. You could have a distance slider to show nearby star names first and then gradually move out showing further stars.
Nah, it wont work and it wont happen
The Skybox is not always properly generated. And currently it's almost impossible to notice unless it's blatant - like cube skyboxes or other obvious artifacts.
But it they add a Stellarium option, all errors would be easily noticeable - creating a flow of dev/qa headache inducing bug reports.
For no real benefit
I'm guessing this little fella here, that's another galaxy right?
Because I think I can see it here in the galaxy map:
But what about this:
I see it occasionally but I can't find it now. Any ideas?
Because I think I can see it here in the galaxy map:
But what about this:
I see it occasionally but I can't find it now. Any ideas?
First one is indeed an object external to the galaxy, now the second is a nebula, but in galaxy map mode many won't be visible immediately, there's some sort of algorithm that makes them invisible depending on your distance and zoom depth, they will seemingly appear and disappear as you move around the galaxy map and change zoom level so they can sometimes be hard to spot.
The best thing to do is to try as goemon suggested and target stars until you find one in roughly the same direction then follow that direction in the galmap.
I would love it if the galmap had the option to project a line/cone showing your ship's current facing.
I thought it might be IC 4606 but you have to go to the edge of the bubble to see that, and it looks like this:
Gotcha!
NGC 7822.
There's an inhabited system there! I have a new holiday destination.
And it's an asteroid base, too! I love those things.
NGC 7822.
There's an inhabited system there! I have a new holiday destination.
And it's an asteroid base, too! I love those things.
Hm. I'm getting closer - about a third of the way - and it looks very different. Did I misidentify it?
Squints......no idea....
I've gone over my screenshot archive (I always do this on a nebula expedition) and there's no mistake, it just changes colour.
What's baffling me is why, from some systems, the centre is over-exposed and you don't get the fine detail around the edges. Is this to do with the star that I'm near? I'm sure that most of those are a good distance out as I usually head out on supercruise and take some time lining up the shot with the external camera. Some take longer than others, waiting for the orbital lines to go out of shot, but I don't think that that explains the difference.
I should have made a note of which system each shot is taken from. Also in future I'll try relogging to see if it re-renders the skybox differently.
What's baffling me is why, from some systems, the centre is over-exposed and you don't get the fine detail around the edges. Is this to do with the star that I'm near? I'm sure that most of those are a good distance out as I usually head out on supercruise and take some time lining up the shot with the external camera. Some take longer than others, waiting for the orbital lines to go out of shot, but I don't think that that explains the difference.
I should have made a note of which system each shot is taken from. Also in future I'll try relogging to see if it re-renders the skybox differently.
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A lot of what you're seeing here - nice set of screenshots! - is probably the difference between the nebula and the bright stars in it - they come into prominence at different ranges, and the stars don't really show up anywhere near as prominently on the map as on the skybox. So the outer bits of the nebula don't change colour that much as they brighten, but the bright star cluster does.
I’m sure this was raised as a bug and acknowledged, but I now can’t find it in the Issue Tracker.
But it’s a bug that’s been in there since day one, and is obviously never going to be fixed.
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That's not so much a skybox bug as a star generation bug. The stars are there in game, and it's rendering them.
Has the skybox rendering changed? I'm no longer seeing system bodies getting "stuck" to the skybox.
Fixed with update 15.