Nasty rover-destroying texture seams on Eve.

[Sharpy]

Eh. The seam bit my backside yesterday.

Trucky was going at sedate 16-something m/s, a speed at which pretty much nothing can threaten it. I got in trouble with that speed only once in the past, hitting a crease - terrain bending by some 70 degrees in one spot. And it wasn't a roll-over, it was stuff attached to the cockpit midsection and roof blowing up - essentially driving into a wall.

Well, yesterday I ran into a seam at an acute angle in a very bumpy terrain; rolled over too fast to react. Luckily not far from a save.

Trucky is so stable it can recover from over 90 degrees tilt all on its own, as long as it has ground contact. The seams seem to act mid-air too though.

Edited November 15, 2016 by Sharpy

[Dafni]

On 13.11.2016 at 9:09 AM, Overland said:

1.2 isnt... nice.. its nicer than 1.1

but alot less nice than 1.0

 

this is not a nice thing to think about

 

Be glad you never go to other planets. What they did to Duna (long before 1.0 though) is just sad. It once was such a nice place with actual geography, now its very dull and boring. And to think that it was once meant to resemble Mars... with the deepest canyons and biggest volcanoes in the whole solar system!

[Sharpy]

4 hours ago, Dafni said:

Be glad you never go to other planets. What they did to Duna (long before 1.0 though) is just sad. It once was such a nice place with actual geography, now its very dull and boring. And to think that it was once meant to resemble Mars... with the deepest canyons and biggest volcanoes in the whole solar system!

I don't know the "old Duna", but I have to disagree, and I have to disagree strongly.

I'm one or two days away from finishing a trip, which took me to all biomes of Duna. And I was thoroughly impressed.

 

The first vista of polar highlands in the morning light.

Grueling trip through valleys and mountains of the highlands, to reach a monolith.

Descent into enormous crater, to meet up with a flyer lander.

Climb into scorched mountains, then a descent into polar crater, where dust storms obscure the snow.

Long trip through gently descending crest of range of hills.

A much smaller, a much steeper crater with a violent dust storm raging on the ore-rich bottom.

Climb through midlands; across a fault line running for many kilometers, where a slope of a plateau meets the lower land as a trench with edges so sharp I broke things off the front of the cockpit, despite very careful drive.

Then descent into the Eastern Canyon. Deep, wretched place, where I raced with dust storms, or dunked myself into murky fog.

Cyan sky of the evening, followed by a starry night; ride through sands glowing red in the distance; gentle lowlands of a very mild slope letting me ride for hours despite my batteries long drained dry. Finally a stop for the night, planting a flag: "Red Meadows."

Climb up the Kolympus mountain. Fantastic vistas from the summits.

Evening descent into Northern Basin, then climbing the central hills in the waning light, and seeing the fantastic purples and blues of the fog in the valleys at dusk.

At dawn - purple and blue mists again, the Face, and then descent into murky fog of the Basin, finding its deepest place, always in shadow. Then Western Canyon, narrow and with ridged, uneven bottom, nasty, difficult drive.

Another night on a slope of the canyon, and finally, the Midland Sea. Dust storms to put all other dust storms to shame. Finding the lowest place on whole Duna. Then crossing the sea and climbing a ridge to reach edge of Southern Basin.

Back to Midland Sea, skirting its edges and reaching the MER anomaly through a constantly deepening valley.

Cut from the valley back to Midland Sea, and through the dust, into Midland Canyon.

You'd think a third canyon won't impress me, right? Wrong. I spent the night on a small hill near the middle of Midland Canyon. And dawn greeted me with a lake. A beautiful bright, blue lake shining in the sunlight. The fogs of the deeper parts of the canyon, reflecting morning sunlight, shone so brightly, they looked like surface of water.

Trip through the bottom of the "lake", then a small cliff and touching the Northern Shelf. Then turning south, and... sky in the west grows dark. A huge swath of darkness sweeps through the sky. It gets dark and windy, another dust storm blowing by. Darkness reaches east, while a circle of light appears eastwards, growing quickly. Solar eclipse on Duna is truly a thing to behold.

Today I should reach the stranded kerbal, and in several days the ascent vehicle should arrive.

Duna, dull and boring? Absolutely not.

[Dafni]

Wow @Sharpy I envy your immersion. Thanks for the eye opener. Are we talking about a stock experience here??

[Sharpy]

Just now, Dafni said:

Wow @Sharpy I envy your immersion. Thanks for the eye opener. Are we talking about a stock experience here??

Atmospheric Scatterer. Land is unaffected, but at least part of the atmospheric effects (dust storms in particular) are Scatterer.

[Galileo]

19 minutes ago, Sharpy said:

Atmospheric Scatterer. Land is unaffected, but at least part of the atmospheric effects (dust storms in particular) are Scatterer.

I really liked how you described Duna..  Makes me want to go back and just explore it again.  I don't think you mean scatterer here though.  Scatterer just provides atmospheric haze,  sun flares,  ocean shaders. It doesn't have clouds or dust storms though.  The dust storms would be from SVE or KSPRC which uses EVE's cloud shaders to make that effect possible.  

[Sharpy]

2 minutes ago, Galileo said:

I really liked how you described Duna..  Makes me want to go back and just explore it again.  I don't think you mean scatterer here though.  Scatterer just provides atmospheric haze,  sun flares,  ocean shaders. It doesn't have clouds or dust storms though.  The dust storms would be from SVE or KSPRC which uses EVE's cloud shaders to make that effect possible.  

Maybe. Gotta check what mods I have installed

[Dafni]

That explains a lot, actually. Mods add a great deal of visual awesomeness, even if its only atmospheric stuff.

Those canyons you speak of, they were definitely more pronounced in the old days. Nowadays the stock Duna is all just hills in comparison. And gone are the nice craters too. I think its sad. But then again Duna is not Mars, and it fits in with the other planets too.

Even if I said its dull and boring, I meant compared to the old version really. Still one of my favorite places to hang out.

Edited November 15, 2016 by Dafni

[W. Kerman]

I had this problem too. I have a seam in reality, and it is right on the runway. This is the runway that my planes take off from at 100+ m/s, so the seam has made takeoff interesting!