Newcomer / Intro What are you up to?

[Zieman]

Yeah, the GFX level does complicate thing a bit, I think.
Off the screenie, hunting Osseus, I'd probably go check crater edges and (preferably rocky) ridges around the outlined areas first.

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

I sometimes wonder how this would look on a more powerful computer...

I play in 4K and some planets can look truly amazing. You could try taking your screenshot in high-res to see how it comes out.

 

[Zieman]

I play in 4K and some planets can look truly amazing. You could try taking your screenshot in high-res to see how it comes out.

hashtag mee-too

 

[CMDR Timber McWolf]

Yeah, the GFX level does complicate thing a bit, I think.
Off the screenie, hunting Osseus, I'd probably go check crater edges and (preferably rocky) ridges around the outlined areas first.
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I think I landed near that elongated mark close to the middle. You can see a system of canyons in the center of the 3km and on the right edge of my 30m approach pictures. Do you thik there would be a chance to find Waldo the missing Osseus there?

 

[CMDR Timber McWolf]

I play in 4K and some planets can look truly amazing. You could try taking your screenshot in high-res to see how it comes out.

How do I do that?

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

How do I do that?

ALT F10

EDIT: your screen may flicker for a few seconds and the resultant file will be big

 

[CMDR Timber McWolf]

ALT F10

EDIT: your screen may flicker for a few seconds and the resultant file will be big

Ah. Good to know. Cheers.

And keep your fingers crossed it won't kill my computer.

 

[Zieman]

I think I landed near that elongated mark close to the middle. You can see a system of canyons in the center of the 3km and on the right edge of my 30m approach pictures. Do you thik there would be a chance to find Waldo the missing Osseus there?

I added a question mark to the pic where I guess you've landed, and a couple of low/slow flying path suggestions.

 

[CMDR Timber McWolf]

I added a question mark to the pic where I guess you've landed, and a couple of low/slow flying path suggestions.

Yeah, somewhere in that area.
But I guess I'd rather take my SRV out to search. Using a controller, I lack some control in the speed department, often being a little too fast for the terrain LOD to load in properly.

 

[Zieman]

Ok, good hunting!

Oh, a thought: is 25% speed at zero pips to ENG too fast? Could well be with DBX, depending on configuration & engineering...

 

[aRJay]

Ah. Good to know. Cheers.

And keep your fingers crossed it won't kill my computer.

High resolution screenshots are not available if you are playing in open.

Looking at your cactoida shot there is an isolated blue spot just to the right and above the ringed planet symbol which is in the blue for all but one of the other bios, I would probably head for that first.

Depending on the canyons Osseus might show up on the rims.

 

[CMDR Timber McWolf]

Ok, good hunting!

Oh, a thought: is 25% speed at zero pips to ENG too fast? Could well be with DBX, depending on configuration & engineering...

I always forget that I could reducespeed by shifting the pips...

 

[CMDR Timber McWolf]

High resolution screenshots are not available if you are playing in open.

Looking at your cactoida shot there is an isolated blue spot just to the right and above the ringed planet symbol which is in the blue for all but one of the other bios, I would probably head for that first.

Depending on the canyons Osseus might show up on the rims.

Ah. Okay. Also good to know. Cheers.

The canyons seem to be deep enough to hide a small ship in there, with quite steep walls.

 

[aRJay]

I always forget that I could reducespeed by shifting the pips...

I don’t shift my pips that much, and can’t in my bio hunter as I have switched of the Power Distributor to save fuel, but will have deployed the landing gear just after the mass lock light comes on and will be throttling back shortly after the gear deployed announcement.

 

[Zieman]

I don’t shift my pips that much, and can’t in my bio hunter as I have switched of the Power Distributor to save fuel, but will have deployed the landing gear just after the mass lock light comes on and will be throttling back shortly after the gear deployed announcement.

Haha, of course, having landing gear deployed will halve the speed the ship flies - how could I forget THAT?!?!

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

Doesn't lowering the cargo scoop also reduce speed? I can't remember.

 

[CMDR Timber McWolf]

Doesn't lowering the cargo scoop also reduce speed? I can't remember.

It does.

 

[aRJay]

Doesn't lowering the cargo scoop also reduce speed? I can't remember.

It does.

But I am unsure if having both lowered at the same time slows you more than just having one down.

 

[varonica]

Now, if I were able to determine from orbit where the more rocky areas were, that would be nice. But I fear that there the limitations of my system are coming in to severely kick me across the field goal. I think I'll jump into the game and take another set of pictures, maybe you can help me see what I can't.

Basically you only need to fly up to around 25klms to 50klms or so, as soon as the speed starts running over 2500m/s, you throttle to zero and angle so you can see the ground, or in the case of a ship with good downward views just level off and look through the floor! Even on lower settings at that height you should be able to see rocky areas. With throttle zero and 30m/s you get plenty of time to look around.

 

[varonica]

I just did that. Here are the results (Warning. Many pictures.):
My view from orbit:
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These are the different DSS maps:
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This is what I see during approach after the glide phase from 3km, 650m and 35m height:
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DISCLAIMER: I am not complaining about this. I show these pictures simply to give you an idea of what I have to deal with on my adventures.
The graphic quality is not because FDev have screwed up, unless you would consider creating a graphics engine that allows systems that are below official minimum requirements to run the game in a stable manner as screwing things up. I am glad that this is even possible.

See this is what I mean, you are way above the height you need to be, and I can see the problem you are having, specially with the poor res images, if you were less than 50km up it would be much easier to see, that first line on your altimeter is the one you need to be above, any more than that and you are really to far away to get a good look around.