https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/mercury/overview/
https://imgur.com/gallery/4w9xUTX
make planets or at least some of them like this.
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The planet colours still isnt right .... THIS is Mercury
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https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/mercury/overview/
https://imgur.com/gallery/4w9xUTX
make planets or at least some of them like this.
Pretty sure they are recoloured images and don't represent the actual colour.
Those are most definitely not a live colour images.
Thats taken from the Visual and Infrared Spectrometer device on the spacecraft, so it's be enhanced, i.e. false, colour.
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I think what you're looking for there are some original specification Rose Tinted Glasses.
An actual real colour picture from the same mission;
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/messenger41-ew1064084344g.nomap_.jpg
Oops, beige, lol.
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/messenger41-ew1064084344g.nomap_.jpg
Oops, beige, lol.
Now what I do like is the surface chemistry maps in the gallery, that's what our detailed surface scanner should be able to do!
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planet...=planets_mercury&button_class=big_more_button
But mostly mercury is grey, just like the moon, not a big surprise that.
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planet...=planets_mercury&button_class=big_more_button
But mostly mercury is grey, just like the moon, not a big surprise that.
In no mans sky all planets look like this [up]
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i shouldn't afk for 20 minutes before hitting reply
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Let's just wait till post 3.0 (particularly Q4); we'll suddenly have a new brigade of players demanding of a return to the more realistic beige - and an end to these falsely colourful planets that have been influenced by decades of beautiful, but "enhanced for your joy & wonder so our budget isn't taken away" retouched NASA images.
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Do you think the galactic salt supply will last that long?
Our ships' computers already overlay things like orbit lines, navigation and targeting data & symbols over the view through the canopy, so I don't see any 'lore' reason that they couldn't digitally 'enhance' the planets in the same way. How cool would it be to switch between view modes for planets between real, enhanced-colour, infrared, metallic composition, volcanic activity, etc, etc. There you go Frontier, there's an idea for a future update...
(Yeah, I know, that's a whole ton of work and not gonna happen any time soon. I can dream.)
(Yeah, I know, that's a whole ton of work and not gonna happen any time soon. I can dream.)
It's surprising how much salt the galaxy has - and were here to mine every last bit of it!
Which would make sense when (Sandro said he wants that feature IIRC, so let's go with that instead of "if") they get around to tie material spawns to local features like impacts, fissures, or predominant surface material instead of just random. On the other hand, they want the VIS colouration to show that information.
Any such visualisation is effectively a separate visual layer that has to be passed on from surface generation to rendering, similar to the idea of showing red- and blue shifting when you're going FTL requiring the renderer to not only produce RGB information but rather a full spectrum from DC to X-rays.
Actually... the OP may have a point...
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The general public is under a totally false assumption of what EVERYTHING in the universe actually looks like. 99% of what you see from Hubble and all the other probes with cameras are FALSE COLORS!
ED is actually a lot closer to reality than many give them credit for. Even before the 3.0 update.
I'm talking about planets though. They are just as guilty as anyone else when it comes to the Milky Way, Nebulae and everything else out there. To the naked eye, most of that stuff would be a whiteish, blue haze with no dazzling colors.
(Just look at the Milky Way with your own eyes on a very clear night in a dark seeing environment. It will look awesome, but it won't be nearly as colorful as most of us imagine. It takes a time exposure on film to reveal all of that)
A pretty boring reality in terms of color visually speaking. I'm glad they opted for something more eyecatching and interesting than the visual reality of the galaxy and the universe as a whole.
ED is actually a lot closer to reality than many give them credit for. Even before the 3.0 update.
I'm talking about planets though. They are just as guilty as anyone else when it comes to the Milky Way, Nebulae and everything else out there. To the naked eye, most of that stuff would be a whiteish, blue haze with no dazzling colors.
(Just look at the Milky Way with your own eyes on a very clear night in a dark seeing environment. It will look awesome, but it won't be nearly as colorful as most of us imagine. It takes a time exposure on film to reveal all of that)
A pretty boring reality in terms of color visually speaking. I'm glad they opted for something more eyecatching and interesting than the visual reality of the galaxy and the universe as a whole.
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Here's Mars from the Curiosty Rover, in 360'o-vision - https://www.360cities.net/image/curiosity-mars and https://www.360cities.net/image/mars-panorama-curiosity-solar-day-177
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hehe, Do you Science?
Yes those are enhanced colour images to show the different mineral and chemical makeup of the planet's surface, they don't look like that in the visual spectrum, but that's not to say ED's (current) beigefest is any closer to reality either. Many planets and moons in our own system do have vivid colour patterns. The 3.0 planets are closer to reality, though maybe erring on the side of false colour enhancement for the majority of them for the sake of variety.
For example here's Ceres with colour enhancement. Quite like the 3.0 planets.
And here's Ceres in natural colours.
For example here's Ceres with colour enhancement. Quite like the 3.0 planets.
And here's Ceres in natural colours.
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