What is wrong with Kerbins ice caps?

[RawChicken]

Hi, ive been to the ice caps and they look weird, I cant understand it.

Here are a few pictures.

My graphics settings are maxed out and res 1280x1024

North Pole:

Looks Fantastic

Closer, you can see the terrain loading closer to the camera.

Seccesfull landing, the floor is actually FLAT but, is shaded in pixels.

South Pole

Looks fantastic

Landed

Again, the terrain is flat but there are shadows in the format of big pixels.

If this is the new ice caps we are having, I think I rather the plain white :/

[EleSigma]

It's the new textures. They're not turning out as well as initially planned, such as this and the high orbit low-res blur textures. There needs to be some more work done which will probably come in a patch.

[magnemoe]

Wonder if they used bump map on the terrain, it would break up if you get to close.

[RawChicken]

Well I hope it gets fixed...the first picture is spectacular!

[artao]

it's a result of global warming

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okay, okay, calm down. SOMEONE had to say it :P :P

[footman04]

They lowered the texture resolution on the planets in 0.20.

It is a noticeable step backwards for the game.

[RawChicken]

Shouldn't they give an option for the res of planets for those who have PCs capable of running them?

[comham]

Shouldn't they give an option for the res of planets for those who have PCs capable of running them?

Even the higher res textures are placeholders. Such is alpha testing.

[RawChicken]

Even the higher res textures are placeholders. Such is alpha testing.

Yeah I know its in alpha

[RoboRay]

It appears to be a normal map intended for the water rather than for the smooth ice cap, that didn't get noticed before (I guess nobody launched into a polar orbit during 0.20 testing). Nova said "Dear lord" when screenshots of the ice caps got posted to Reddit yesterday.

[Tw1]

Looks awesome. I'm so visiting them again.

[comham]

It appears to be a normal map intended for the water rather than for the smooth ice cap, that didn't get noticed before (I guess nobody launched into a polar orbit during 0.20 testing). Nova said "Dear lord" when screenshots of the ice caps got posted to Reddit yesterday.

I dunno, it kinda looks like the muns normal map too. I guess it's just a proof of concept to see if normals maps for planet surfaces from orbits work at all.

[karolus10]

They lowered the texture resolution on the planets in 0.20.

It is a noticeable step backwards for the game.

Not necessarily, if they use higher res textures for small area close to us