Strangeness of Water on Eve

[Steve7893]

I just managed to get a probe down to the surface of Eve.  Naturally as luck would have it, I landed in an ocean.   But looking around, I notice that the "waves" or rather the "surface of the water, or purple liquid" isn't behaving as I would have thought.   Perhaps this is normal for Eve, but it seems like a tar, which can splash like water....The surface seems to have rise and fall points like it was a liquid, and yet those points don't really move.....

Here are a couple of images spaced 6 seconds apart:

Every crest and trough of the "waves" are unchanging, and apart from the initial "splash" it now seems like my craft is embedded in tar.....or land even.

Interesting.....if I accelerate time several clicks, I do see changes.   Maybe the strength of the gravity here is altering the flow of time.

Edited March 5, 2023 by Steve7893

[Strawberry]

Waves to my knowledge do nothing but also eves surface is canonically liquid sulfur now so it having higher viscosity is probably intentional??

[Stoup]

I noticed similarly buggy behavior on Laythe. Waves didn't move at all, except for some strange alterations at timewarp speeds.

[Steve7893]

25 minutes ago, Stoup said:

I noticed similarly buggy behavior on Laythe. Waves didn't move at all, except for some strange alterations at timewarp speeds.

Ok, that more matches what I am seeing.    I know I made it sound like viscosity, and I wanted to believe that also.   But in playing with the timewarp, it was like no changes over 3 clicks up, and then suddenly on the 4th click, very rapid changes.   Nothing linear about it.

[Tazooka]

9 hours ago, Stoup said:

I noticed similarly buggy behavior on Laythe. Waves didn't move at all, except for some strange alterations at timewarp speeds.

Laythe has square water

Source: Reddit Post

[LameLefty]

You guys are noticing a combination of the lack of water physics yet in the game, plus Unity’s signature texture-tiling. The physics will be fixed eventually. The textures being tiled may or may not be alleviated or made less obvious over time.