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Wandering the Eve universe in real time
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Aminath
Genesys Aminath Corp.
#1 - 2012-10-14 08:02:37 UTC  |  Edited by: Aminath
From what I understood in Crucible, a new nebulae rendering system has been introduced that renders the sky background based on where you are and a global 3D model of the entire universe. So, I suppose there is a 3D model of the universe, full of massive interstellar objects like nebulae.

Wouldn't it be absolutely cool to be able to wander at super high speed (FTL) in high res in this 3D universe, but out of Eve in a standalone app that would just give you a feeling of the 3D repartition of all interstellar massive objects? A sort of walk through the universe. There would be no planet, station or ships, just the continuous flow of the nabulae background around you!

Cheers
Aminath
Vera Algaert
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2012-10-14 08:05:31 UTC
Aminath wrote:
From what I understood in Crucible, a new nebulae rendering system has been introduced that renders the sky background based on where you are and a global 3D model of the entire universe. So, I suppose there is a 3D model of the universe, full of massive interstellar objects like nebulae.

it exists - but not on your client

the backgrounds were rendered using that model on some supercomputer, your client only displays the pretty pictures

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Tres Farmer
Gallente Federation Intelligence Service
#3 - 2012-10-14 10:16:40 UTC
what Vera said ^^

The nebulae exists in some 3d package and CCP gave some out of house company the job to render spherical views from about 65(?) points 'within the eve cluster' to use as background textures.. I'm not sure, but at some point there was talk about giving people the option to download a higher res version of those than what is being shipped with the client as standard.

Also pretty sure CCP won't touch this subject for the next 2-3 years again and implement a tech which would make textures of this kind obsolete.