There be caves...?

[theJesuit]

Hi everyone,

In the screen grab posted to discord from the Dev video the other day, this picture has the file name of SneekPeak_Hole.png.  Is it just me, the perspective or what, but it looks like caves could be  a thing?

Spoiler

 Peace.

[TheSpaceDinos4037]

I think that’s a revamp of the Mohole

Could also he caves tho

[Vl3d]

I think that's a volcano.

[The Aziz]

Toooooldyaaaaaaaaaa

4 minutes ago, TheSpaceDinos4037 said:

I think that’s a revamp of the Mohole

 

With the sun that far?

[Superfluous J]

Could be a donut-shaped asteroid for all we know.

[VlonaldKerman]

Actually, it could be- never mind, I’m not gonna finish that joke…

[TheSpaceDinos4037]

14 minutes ago, The Aziz said:

Toooooldyaaaaaaaaaa

With the sun that far?

Ya probably not the Mohole then

[modus]

48 minutes ago, Superfluous J said:

Could be a donut-shaped asteroid for all we know.

Yeah I was thinking asteroid as well

[Stoup]

Yeah, I'd say just based on the level of detailing in the texture of whatever we're looking at it's probably a smaller object like an asteroid or surface object rather than any kind of celestial body terrain. It definitely has that characteristic bloompocalypse that you see on standard terrain though

[Alexoff]

It's Tylo cave

[Strawberry]

I'm pretty sure this is a pol hole, the colors look similar and the sun looks to be the same size. Not to mention Pol already is pretty cratered and hole-y so this would fit right in. (image stolen from suppise on discord)

Edited September 3, 2023 by Strawberry

[Turbo Ben]

As I undersand it, the terrain system does not allow for caves, but a hand crafted surface feature probably would. Did they call them decals?

[joratto]

20 hours ago, The Aziz said:

Toooooldyaaaaaaaaaa

With the sun that far?

And directly overhead

[pk9sp]

On 9/3/2023 at 12:35 PM, Superfluous J said:

Could be a donut-shaped asteroid for all we know.

That's what my mind jumped to as well, it has a unique texture and there's no atmosphere

[Superfluous J]

11 hours ago, joratto said:

And directly overhead

Not necessarily, could be just the floor of the cave is ever-so-slightly hiding the horizon.

[Lyneira]

The terrain system does not of itself allow for caves because it's a heightmap but it may not be impossible to have some caves. When terrain features like sharp cliff edges or overhangs are needed, these are usually separate objects put on top of the heightmap terrain. A cave would have to be a separate object that sits on top of the heightmap terrain. Ordinarily the limitation is that the cave can't go "under" the heightmap terrain, but exceptions could be made.

As an example, World of Warcraft uses heightmap based terrain but it also has caves that are separate objects and conceal a hole in the heightmap terrain, allowing the cave system to actually go under the heightmap. See spoiler for an example, it shows how the cave entrances are separate objects from the heightmap terrain and allow you to pass under them into the cave system.

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[joratto]

15 hours ago, Superfluous J said:

Not necessarily, could be just the floor of the cave is ever-so-slightly hiding the horizon.

Unlikely given that the mohole is right on moho’s pole, which is perpendicular to Kerbol (right?).
 
But I’m assuming they wouldn’t change the position of the mohole, and maybe they would!

[Superfluous J]

3 hours ago, joratto said:

Unlikely given that the mohole is right on moho’s pole, which is perpendicular to Kerbol (right?).
 
But I’m assuming they wouldn’t change the position of the mohole, and maybe they would!

But it's not the Mohole, unless they moved Moho to about Jool's orbit.

[Pthigrivi]

On 9/3/2023 at 12:29 PM, Vl3d said:

I think that's a volcano.

Thats what Im hoping  Taken in parcel with the rib cage its making me more hopeful that science surface features will be a bit more... well, sciencey.

 

Edited September 5, 2023 by Pthigrivi

[The Aziz]

 

Edited September 7, 2023 by The Aziz

[joratto]

On 9/5/2023 at 3:27 PM, Superfluous J said:

But it's not the Mohole,

That’s what I’m sayin!

[Vl3d]

On 9/7/2023 at 9:02 AM, The Aziz said:

 

Drool!

[ConsoleCoder]

The hole looks like an asteroid to me. An asteroid in the Eeloo region. I’m thinking it’s either a natural asteroid with a hole in it, or maybe it’s some sort of new asteroid mining feature like in No Man’s sky. I could be wrong, though.