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psycoticvulcan
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It goes pretty much without saying that the game's visuals have come a long way since launch. One thing that's improved a lot is the quality of the gas giants in the game. Just take a look at the Kobali System compared to the Badlands. Unfortunately, the old textures are still in the game. And they really, really don't look like gas giants. Certainly not something that compares to Jupiter or Saturn.
I realize this isn't exactly a pressing issue, but since the game seems to be focusing a lot on modernization these days, would it be possible to replace those old textures with something a little more realistic?
I realize this isn't exactly a pressing issue, but since the game seems to be focusing a lot on modernization these days, would it be possible to replace those old textures with something a little more realistic?
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Except that Jupiter's spot is in the Southern Hemisphere.
And whose to say that other gas giants don't also have massive storms?
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Even a gradient color, like Saturn, would be great.
"Critics who say that the optimistic utopia Star Trek depicted is now outmoded forget the cultural context that gave birth to it: Star Trek was not a manifestation of optimism when optimism was easy. Star Trek declared a hope for a future that nobody stuck in the present could believe in. For all our struggles today, we haven’t outgrown the need for stories like Star Trek. We need tales of optimism, of heroes, of courage and goodness now as much as we’ve ever needed them."
-Thomas Marrone
However, I don't think Kobali is a good example. It is literally a tinted Jupiter, which it a bit weak imo.
We have a longer term plan to update planet materials, but I have no idea if/when we'll get to that. Gas Giants would definitely be on the list of things to update.
I think the concern is that it is way too obviously a digitized 3-D image of of the famous Jovian, but turned upside down. I don't think the swirling storms is the problem, but the obnoxious Great Red Spot (or purple spot in this case).
Fun little fact, Jupiter's Great Red Spot is NOT a cyclone, but an ANTI-Cyclone, meaning it is not a storm(in the typical sense) but a high pressure system!
That'd be neat. I'm a fan of just how gosh darn pretty space is sometimes with the nebulas and planets and such, so updated planet art would help there.
Of course I also think it'd be cool if we had to go into the upper atmosphere of a gas giant and try not to blow ourselves up with the hydrogen gas everywhere.
"Critics who say that the optimistic utopia Star Trek depicted is now outmoded forget the cultural context that gave birth to it: Star Trek was not a manifestation of optimism when optimism was easy. Star Trek declared a hope for a future that nobody stuck in the present could believe in. For all our struggles today, we haven’t outgrown the need for stories like Star Trek. We need tales of optimism, of heroes, of courage and goodness now as much as we’ve ever needed them."
-Thomas Marrone