Terrain and texture changes in 3.0?

[777Driver]

Just finished a round of long range trucking missions last night, ended up near Sol and another one of my home bases.

first thing I noticed is that the textures around Earth seem to have been degraded, am still using the 4K tweak but res is still low. Even more weird is the terrain at one of my old trading locations has changed, the station is now on top of a mountain :-/ I only thought textures had changed, not the terrain mesh on planets.

 

[nanite2000]

first thing I noticed is that the textures around Earth seem to have been degraded, am still using the 4K tweak but res is still low.

Sorry for the dumb question, but have you checked to make sure your 4k tweak hasn't been overwritten by one of the v3.0.x updates?

 

[777Driver]

Sorry for the dumb question, but have you checked to make sure your 4k tweak hasn't been overwritten by one of the v3.0.x updates?

Good question, yeah that was one thing that I checked.

 

[nanite2000]

Good question, yeah that was one thing that I checked.

I checked my own settings - my own 4k overrides had been reverted. I updated them again and this is how an Earth Like world looks now:

And a rocky planet surface with mountains:

So, it looks OK. It sounds like your graphics settings are off. Latest drivers, etc?

 

[GG7]

I don't see any changes.

Running at 3840x2160.

 

[VR Morgan Grimes]

Earth has always looked bad in comparison to Earth-likes for me.

 

[777Driver]

I checked my own settings - my own 4k overrides had been reverted. I updated them again and this is how an Earth Like world looks now:

https://imgur.com/FT0aY6w.png

And a rocky planet surface with mountains:

https://imgur.com/93M73gv.png

So, it looks OK. It sounds like your graphics settings are off. Latest drivers, etc?

Sorry I should have been clearer, earth like worlds look fine. It is the textures for planet Earth that seem to have changed.

@Morgan Grimes, the textures have always been lower res for earth, however it definitely wasn't as bad as in the picture I posted.

 

[Lightspeed]

How come there's so much night life in Wales and Northern Ireland? :S

 

[varonica]

How come there's so much night life in Wales and Northern Ireland? :S

Because during WW3 no-one bothered bombing Wales and NI, so after everything else was covered in radiation the population greater UK moved there.

 

[Mengy]

Physical terrain was unchanged for 3.0, I've compared several locations to how they looked pre 3.0 and terrain is identical. Colors are very different and they now can emphasize the terrain much better than it used to.

With regards to base locations though, it does feel like they might have tweaked the base placing routines somewhat. Most of them haven't changed for me but I have been to a few which seemed to be placed better into the terrain, or maybe they are just flattening the ground better under them or something.