this is why there nothing quite like exploring (a short video experiment to share with fellow explorers)

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this is why there's nothing quite like exploring (a short video experiment to share with fellow explorers)

on my way to barnard's loop i came across this planet with a nice view of a big gas giant and so i thought this is a perfect opportunity to try out a bit of time-lapsing. so this is my first attempt at it and i guess for that it turned out ok-ish.

sadly my suv randomly blew up half way during the capture (i still don't know why that happened :) ) so thats why i had to switch perspective during the video.

the view reminded me of the first time playing Frontier - Elite II on amiga starting out on the planet merlin and you can see the gas giant aster in the sky. and then this moment when you realise that that planet isn't just a nice background image but you can actually fly there. it was and still is mindblowingly awesome in my opinion.

so to all explorers out there, i hope you enjoy and you all have a good one wherever you may be!

[video=youtube_share;X2nl3Mh8DIU]https://youtu.be/X2nl3Mh8DIU[/video]


cheers
cmd redONE
 
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redONE

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iain666 said:
That's pretty sweet - how long is the actual elapsed time there?
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i think i captured about 6-8 hours and took about 16000 screenshots. it's hard to tell exactly cause first my suv blew up randomly during the capture and at the end i had a disconnect from frontiers server and got kicked out of the game. luckily by that point the gas giant completely sat down and vanished behind the horizon.

it was a nice experiment really and shows how great the game simulation really is.

iain666 said:
Nah, not ok-ish. Pretty much perfect
What did you use for capture?
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thank you :). i used a little free program called Chronolapse (https://www.chronolapse.com) to capture the images and composed everything in adobe after effects afterwards.
 

Mengy

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redONE said:
could be. i just assumed you don't use fuel when you're not moving/driving. and since i just parked there... well in any case i guess it was a good sacrifice in the end :)
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OH no, the SRV will happily consume fuel while sitting completely still! You can extend it's life by shutting down every system except for life support, it uses much less fuel that way. Even still though, if you sit long enough it will run dry and blow up unless you synthesize a tank of gas now and then to top it off.
 

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Mengy said:
OH no, the SRV will happily consume fuel while sitting completely still! You can extend it's life by shutting down every system except for life support, it uses much less fuel that way. Even still though, if you sit long enough it will run dry and blow up unless you synthesize a tank of gas now and then to top it off.
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thanks for the info, mengy :). i'll keep that in mind if i ever do one of those again. and now that i think about it, it makes sense of course. a car engine will also still consume fuel even when idling. it's just that even my crap car i use in real life lasts more than three hours on a fuel tank and on top of that it doesn't explode when draining my tank (at least i think it doesn't :) never tried haha)
 

newman1702

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iain666 said:
Your car's not maintaining life support in a vacuum though ;)
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We do have rovers or Mars which are perfectly capable of operating for years, and while SRV's do have to maintain life support and rovers do not, SRV's also utilize technology that's over 1000 years ahead, so let's not pretend that this is realistic in any way - it was more of a game balancing decision than anything else. I still think you should just have electric motors powered up by a small sealed generator that can last for years, effectively having unlimited SRV fuel - the refueling mechanic doesn't offer anything valuable in terms of gameplay, anyway, you just have to drive to the first low value rock and combine 1 lump of sulphur with another lump of phosphorus. It was made ridiculously easy to prevent from commanders getting stuck all the time and complaining about it, but it then became so easy it defeated the purpose of having an SRV fuel mechanic in the first place. Just give it future space magic solar panels or a small reactor and be done with it.
 
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