Still not close enough?
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Yep. And my first thought was "can I thread the needle between that???"
Hmm, maybe is me, but I think we have accretion disks already in the game. They just don't look the way we expect them to look or the way they look in real life.
If you have seen those stars with very tight disc around them (e.g. some T Tauris,Y browns) then you would come to realize that those are no ordinary rings. For starters, they tend to be really, really wide. And I am talking 25ls wide like the latest I found. That's 25 times the distance between Earth and the Moon.
Second suggestion that they are accretion disks: their innermost radius is way lower than the Roche limit of the star, indicating a clear decay of material into it. If you try to get to that inner edge of the disk, you will inevitably fall to the gravity well of the star. That's no coincidence: you are just falling into the star just like the edge of the rim as well.
So, it seems the Cobra Engine was trying to convey: "Here there be Accretion Disk" but with the limited graphical resources, this is the best it could generate them.
Maybe I'm wrong and I am reading into it too hard. But whatever the case is, I agree some subtle additions to represent this -and many other phenomena- would go a long way in making the look and feel more realistic.
What a wonderful find!! Wow!!! Repped.
Hope he tell us!!! Would like to see that myself!!
If you have seen those stars with very tight disc around them (e.g. some T Tauris,Y browns) then you would come to realize that those are no ordinary rings. For starters, they tend to be really, really wide. And I am talking 25ls wide like the latest I found. That's 25 times the distance between Earth and the Moon.
Second suggestion that they are accretion disks: their innermost radius is way lower than the Roche limit of the star, indicating a clear decay of material into it. If you try to get to that inner edge of the disk, you will inevitably fall to the gravity well of the star. That's no coincidence: you are just falling into the star just like the edge of the rim as well.
So, it seems the Cobra Engine was trying to convey: "Here there be Accretion Disk" but with the limited graphical resources, this is the best it could generate them.
Maybe I'm wrong and I am reading into it too hard. But whatever the case is, I agree some subtle additions to represent this -and many other phenomena- would go a long way in making the look and feel more realistic.
If we get accretion disks, i'm returning here:
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Some people want to watch the world burn... I just want to watch that star getting eaten by the black hole orbiting very close to it.
What a wonderful find!! Wow!!! Repped.
Hope he tell us!!! Would like to see that myself!!
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One of my earliest Black Holes is similarly close
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=417108096
Having said that it wouldn't look quite like the artist rendition cause IIRC most of the cool stuff is outside the visible spectrum.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=417108096
Having said that it wouldn't look quite like the artist rendition cause IIRC most of the cool stuff is outside the visible spectrum.
Given that they already display nebulas in full color fidelity and the galactic core as if it were in IR, I think it would be consistent to show the full awesome Black Body Spectrum of a Black Hole's accretion disk and jets. Besides, we'd probably see all of the structure to some degree even if the peak frequency wasn't in the visible range.
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There's an O-Class star pretty close to colonized space called HIP 63835 with a black hole orbiting very close to it much like the one pictured by Sniffy. There are also two other black holes in this system.
I think I broke the universe 
I think I broke the universe
Love it! I had one orbiting close like Sniffy's, and got between the star and the BH to take a shot similar to yours. Weird gravitational lensing to look out the cockpit and see a mirror image of the star behind you. Here's mine
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That reminded me of something I was contemplating the other day. What would a ship experience if it got hit by a large GRB (Gamma Ray Burst). A flash of light then your shields pop. Would certainly cause some pucker factor.
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Love it! I had one orbiting close like Sniffy's, and got between the star and the BH to take a shot similar to yours. Weird gravitational lensing to look out the cockpit and see a mirror image of the star behind you. Here's mine
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Should have tried that.
Dang it, do you do installment plans? I don't think I could afford a whole one.
Love it! I had one orbiting close like Sniffy's, and got between the star and the BH to take a shot similar to yours. Weird gravitational lensing to look out the cockpit and see a mirror image of the star behind you. Here's mine
Cool pic.
