New Mun in 0.21 , See pictures! [pic heavy]

[Luxmaster-CZ]

Sooo, What do you say?

I like it

All pics were taken from HarvesteR's Dev Blag

[Dusty926]

That...is actually quite cool. I like it.

[Tremzack]

Quick comparison between the real thing and the Mun reveals new startling similarities.

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[XenonSpark]

So delicious. As others have said, I think a bit more variation in the size (or shape) of the small-medium craters would look fantastic. But honestly I love this so much that I'm totally happy with it.

[stupid_chris]

Yeah, they look awesome, but they're almost all the same size, a bit of difference between the crater's size would do no harm Else I can't wait to jump the craters at 30m/s

[Tremzack]

I think tiny tiny craters, like a few meters across would be quite awesome, but I don't think they can do that

[Brotoro]

The craters look strange...because of the too-uniform size or spacing. And really strange because they are on the maria (dark smooth areas).

[Richy teh space man]

Looks great, can't wait for the next update

[redteddy23]

Going to catch some serious vacuum on the sides of those things with my rover.

[nats]

From a perfectist point of view the lower areas should be flatter as they are covered in the newer molten rock and the slightly upper older areas cratered more heavily - I wonder if that could be accomplished procedurally?

But hey I am not going to be at all bothered about that - any improvement to the planets is lovingly received.

[sgt_flyer]

Swiss cheese anyone ?

[jwenting]

remember this is not the finished product, but a proof of concept. I'm sure Harvester will get around to tweaking things.

[Flixxbeatz]

"So you want craters? Here, have some creaters!" -SQUAD

[Baleur]

The craters look strange...because of the too-uniform size or spacing. And really strange because they are on the maria (dark smooth areas).

Yeah, a larger "mask" over the entire crater thing would be nice, to create random large swaths of less frequent craters, instead of having that classical random generation same-distribution-everywhere look

[Tommygun]

So many craters, so many bad landings.

[Landge]

Looks awesome! Great work HarvesteR! But how will that affect the Easter eggs? Will the changes in terrain cause them to appear to float or be buried again?

That reminds me. Don't know if this has been addressed but there's a rift in the terrain near the pyramids:

[Sof]

Is it just for the Mun, or is the crater code going to do an overhaul of the other moons and planets too?

[Tremzack]

HarvesteR said that it was just the mun for now

EDIT:

As for which planets, currently this mod is only applied on the Mun. It takes a significant amount of time to tune the parameters to look good on a celestial body, so I think for now the Mun will be the only body using this system.

In any case the Mun was the body in most desperate need of a revisit. But we'll definitely go over the other ones on later updates though.

Cheers

Edited July 9, 2013 by Tremzack
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[oberlerchner123]

Alright, more detailed terrain, now that's something save breaking is worth it for.

Too bad if it's just the Mun though, that would mean there's probably another save breaking update coming up if they want the other planets more detailed.

But oh well.

[CREEDOFTROLLS]

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Edited February 11, 2023 by CREEDOFTROLLS

[skyace65]

so, is .21 actually still in the QA phase or did they stop QA to add in stuff like the new mun?

[Pixel of Life]

Looks great! This makes me wonder though, are they going to improve all the planets and moons for .21? I don't really see the point in doing that to only one of them.

[karolus10]

This new craters are incredibly awesome... only thing I can pick are nearly same size for all craters, they could be more varied in size.

Also, I'd love to see more smaller ones .

[DisarmingBaton5]

Hang on, as amazing as this is, does that mean 0.21 will take longer? I guess that's good in a way, but I'm anxious!

[Tw1]

The craters look strange...because of the too-uniform size or spacing. And really strange because they are on the maria (dark smooth areas).

That was my thought too. But I hope this is cleared up.