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Cool - is the great north star going to make a re-appearance?

It's "fora", not "forii". "forum" is a neutral noun.

Improving the general light model in space is on our long term roadmap. The efforts to apply version 3 of our shader ( V3 ) onto everything is a stepping stone towards that. We want the nebula to cast faint light onto the objects. We want soft bonce light from the surface of planets bouncing of stations, customs offices and ships near it, in the same way you see the soft light of Earth illuminate the underside of the ISS, Mir or the space shuttles. We want asteroids to pick up the nebula light as well, explosions to illuminate nearby ships and space objects, and to have space get more dark the more AU you travel away from the sun. With over 300 different ships, tons of space objects and asteroids, this work is being done in increments, starting with the V3-ing of ships. We know that someone standing on the surface of the celestial object formerly known as the Planet Pluto would see our sun as a faint flashlight far away in a sea of stars. We want to do this! it just takes some time.

Oh and warping the nebula cubemap, it didn't work that well when we tried it internally, it looked pretty fake and distorted and broke immersion. We played around with it years ago, perhaps we can try some new methods, but simply moving your point of origin inside the virtual sphere made you see that it's a flat backdrop very quickly.

You can actually see the edge of the Galaxy when you are in the darker regions of New Eden, like losec and zero sec.

With EVE, whenever you look at an ingame screenshot you get the general idea of when it was taken just by the resolution/quality of the background nebula

And these look amazing

Here's the good old CCP, promise :awesome: but deliver "meh". The granularity need to be finer, having entire regions with the same backdrop is worse than we have now since there's some variation. I'm looking forward to seeing this on sisi, maybe it's just some unfortunate wording...

Looks fantastic; can't wait to see in action.

p.s. One thing I've always wanted to see in systems is binary systems/tri-star systems, neutron stars, pulsars etc . Like the wormhole effects, perhaps a neutron star would do interesting things to shield harmonics andwhatnot. All these single vanilla star systems are great and all but a little variety would be nice!

Just occured to me (hence the edit) - Quite a bit of player interest in increasing size of EVE universe from time to time. Perhaps the introduction of binary star systems each with own planetary bodies in orbit would be a way of increasing complexity and scope of each system without having to add new systems altogether? Just a thought...

Wow.


This has been a long time coming. Great job, guys and keep it up! I look forward to getting out there and seeing the universe reborn!

Of course, both regions.

Well yes, and ofc EVE is set in a tiny fraction of the galaxy it occurs in. Our galaxy is thought to have 200-400 billion stars. New Eden is 5000 stars. So traversing New Eden actually retains a somewhat fixed point of view onto the disc of the galaxy.