Show and Tell - Terrain progress

[Sesshaku]

Every single time I watch stuff like this my mind immediately goes to three places:

- The GPU market crisis couldn't had arrived at a worst time.

- I really hope the usual Unity stabilty issues are not present on this one

- I am dreading the minimum requirements for stable 30FPS in 1080p

[gussi111]

I feel like having rovers in KSP 1 was kind of meh because of the surface details, but I can totally imagine driving around for hours upon hours and looking at all those incredible textures in KSP 2!

[Hyperspace Industries]

Will there be an option to lower surface scatter density? There better be one  

Edit: those rocks on Gilly are unrealistic, a better representation would be a orbital debris field  

Edited August 6, 2021 by Hyperspace Industries

[Guest]

Scared to see what this does to my computer XD 

[KSP_linux0191]

1 minute ago, Hyperspace Industries said:

Will there be an option to lower surface scatter density? There better be one  

I hope so, too.

[pandaman]

Just, WOW!  Stunning.

Presumably those images are on max settings, but even on lowest I expect them to look awesome.

@Nate Simpson any chance of a low, med, high graphics setting comparison?  That may help those of us on lower end machines to stop worrying so much.

[gussi111]

1 minute ago, pandaman said:

Just, WOW!  Stunning.

Presumably those images are on max settings, but even on lowest I expect them to look awesome.

@Nate Simpson any chance of a low, med, high graphics setting comparison?  That may help those of us on lower end machines to stop worrying so much.

How did you even play KSP 1 with a low end machine?

[Spaceman.Spiff]

Showing this because of Parallax 1.3.0? 

[shdwlrd]

28 minutes ago, gussi111 said:

How did you even play KSP 1 with a low end machine?

You don't build too big and keep your crafts as simple and efficient as possible. That's how you play on a low end machine.

[pandaman]

56 minutes ago, gussi111 said:

How did you even play KSP 1 with a low end machine?

Mine's not 'that' low compared to someTBH, but not high end by any means.  It runs ok on full graphics settings, but it suffers from the usual 'yellow timer' issue a fair bit.

I know many will likely have lesser machines than mine, and there have been a lot of posts enquiring about minimim specs etc so I though that may be one way to put minds at rest, or encourage us to save up. 

[Kapitalizing Every Word]

I can't wait to see it at 720p 3 fps (I Will enjoy each frame like gold)

[AlamoVampire]

1. I wonder if it will look this good in actual gameplay?

2. I wonder if we will be able to move boulders around?

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[Admiral Fluffy]

ITS FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[Nirgal]

I don't even have words.. it's.. it's beautiful 

As an aside, I recently had an eye test and they mis-diagnosed me, for a few hours I legitimately thought I was going to go blind. Of all the things I was sad I'd never experience, perhaps embarrassingly,  KSP2 was very high on the list..

 

[Admiral Fluffy]

@Nate Simpson, what is the blue stuff at 0:30 on gilly?

[Souptime]

If you hear about a small nuclear device detonated in the US east coast, you know what happened to me

[PlutoISaPlanet]

How is my x box going to handle this!?

Hopefully their are slider settings for terrain generation to better optimize the game for better performance.

[nsgallup]

I hope this is further developed so that the scatter popping in at the render distance is less obvious and jarring. Really breaks immersion for me.

[Superbdul1]

When do you think we can expect the minimun system requirements?

 

[TLTay]

Thank you. Looking forward to KSP2 is one of the remaining bright spots in an increasingly difficult to handle world.

[Nirgal]

6 hours ago, nsgallup said:

I hope this is further developed so that the scatter popping in at the render distance is less obvious and jarring. Really breaks immersion for me.

Yeah this is an issue nobody seems to mention, it's very noticeable for me too and probably my only complaint about what we've seen of the game so far.

[PlutoISaPlanet]

6 hours ago, Superbdul1 said:

When do you think we can expect the minimun system requirements?

 

Not sure, but it will run on X Box and PS 4 so....

[MechBFP]

1 hour ago, Nirgal said:

Yeah this is an issue nobody seems to mention, it's very noticeable for me too and probably my only complaint about what we've seen of the game so far.

This is somewhat inevitable because of the type of game it is. Showing everything for hundred of kilometres is also going to tank FPS, which people will also complain about. So this is very much a “pick your poison” situation. 

[Kapitalizing Every Word]

13 hours ago, Souptime said:

If you hear about a small nuclear device detonated in the US east coast, you know what happened to me

Sounds like
A: Potato PC running KSP2 
B: Orion drive?

[The Aziz]

56 minutes ago, MechBFP said:

This is somewhat inevitable because of the type of game it is. Showing everything for hundred of kilometres is also going to tank FPS, which people will also complain about. 

Correct. But visible edge between two LODs for the ground looks very off. Would be nice if it could be smoothened a bit, so the two would kinda blend with each other with barely noticeable difference. Like the scatters could gradually disappear into the distance before being unloaded. But if it can be done. I do not know.

Edited August 7, 2021 by The Aziz