Ok, thanks Rayrod. Btw, I love your overhaul mod 🙃
#nms-photomode-gallery
heady phoenix
solar violet
No problem! Also, thanks. It's a work in progress, but lots of progress is being made. 😛
heady phoenix
Even as a WIP it's still amazing... and in all honesty, NMS could be considered a WIP. I still absolutely love it though
solar violet
That's so true. No Man's Sky, in itself is a WIP game with so much potential.
solar violet
Working on it 😛
tawny silo
If next doesn’t bring variation and immersion to biomes I’ll just go with your mod ray, once you have it released on ps4 😜
Looks very good
faint trench
If you're able to release it on ps4 you'll be my new hero Ray, mark my words
solar violet
If NEXT brings variation ad immersion to biomes (which it probably will), I'll just push it further
Even with great updates, and polished games, there's always room for improvement and more content
faint trench
Indeed, a game is like a giant stone that can be sculpted
It's good to see that you have a good vision on it
jaunty plover
I have no idea how you are gonna get a mod on PS4 but if you do...great job!
solar violet
Thanks.
I did modify the ps4 build already
But I have it on hold at the current moment, as I'm really tied up with work on the PC build
faint trench
So i'm talking out of ignorance because i know nothing, but will we have a mod option in next or in a near future?? (if that's what im understanding, i might be getting it wrong)
somber marsh
solar violet
It would be awesome to see that, but we don't know for sure @faint trench
faint trench
@solar violet oh well, i guess i'll just wait for the future and hope that it turns out to happen
heady phoenix
@somber marsh I think I just saw something like that on Reddit
raven fable
Hey guys, could we please keep this convo in #nms-modding
heady phoenix
Sure thing @Matthew
solar violet
Sure thing
somber marsh
@heady phoenix yeah, that was probably me. I have a different name on there. u/LastDaysOnEarth72
heady phoenix
@somber marsh pretty sure it was you then. 👌
main dove
I’m pretty sure modding the game on ps4 would require some non-sony approved stuff, like jail breaking, right?
I don’t think you can mod a game on PS4 without breaking something iirc
solar violet
Going to respond to you in #nms-modding @main dove
As it's quite the contrary in regard to breaking stuff
wise pivot
Just recently uploaded all of my screenshots since the release of the game (I didn't take too many before photo mode)
main dove
tawny silo
Tried to share some ps4 screenshots but it gave me errors :/
main dove
@main dove mods..?
Is that even No Man's Sky?
ach nevermind
thought you had a really sick cloud mod lol
@main dove
No mods
no way that's no mans' sky
it's hard to tell because it's a bit low res
tawny silo
That's not NMS
solar violet
lol
That's a real-life screenshot
Or render, hard to tell but def not nms
Looks pretty though 😛
main dove
the colors from a distance are what struck me off
probably wanna specify that next time
main dove
@solar violet @main dove @tawny silo
It's star citizen 😝
d'aw that makes a lot of sense actually
tawny silo
Hahah aight
wanton pecan
tender burrow
I found a dino like that second one, but with a bird head
wise pivot
I've found a few of those as well. They're neat.
main dove
i need a flash drive so i can post screenshots..
crude slate
Hey guys up on this mountain... i found NoMan's Ark 😮
and made this guy angry cuz i bet him i could jump higher than him
crude slate
and it isnt a cool planet without some kickass grass 😄
celest steeple
found this UNIT
raven fable
haha woaw
celest steeple
holy fuck thats the furthest planet ive ever seen!!
this entire system is very spaced out
like 4 mins to get to every planet
analog kayak
those are fun to travel around /s
copper robin
@celest steeple from space station?
celest steeple
Yea
warped thistle
Found a beautiful shot from an older version of @solar violet 's mod. Somewhere in early v10 beta testing
That was a radioactive planet too haha
wooden sand
@celest steeple Hehe... "space"d out~
celest steeple
😒
heady phoenix
I feel bad for you @celest steeple
mellow marsh
I'm not your buddy,
copper robin
Just wanna share my cozy room in my base 😃
dry reef
Nice
celest steeple
ayyyyyy
main dove
nice
copper robin
Lil base
tawny silo
Wut is that projector thing
tawny silo
Yeh
copper robin
Constructible save point
tawny silo
Wait since when do they project an orb
copper robin
when you use it
tawny silo
Can’t remember that happening hahah
copper robin
😛
main dove
It’s actually a planet I believe
iron dagger
https://twitter.com/nickthecollectr/status/1009166521543749632?s=12 Not mine, but had to share. Beautiful 😍
main dove
Dayum
jaunty plover
R U N!
tulip crane
limpid plover
oh i was about to ask how the hell you built that lmao
tame geyser
aaa this planet is so cool
limpid plover
@tame geyser yo that is sick id make my home there if i found it
tame geyser
yeah, i'd love to find a base here. the sentinels are frenzied because there's gravitino balls everywhere but i can just hide inside
main dove
It really is.
crystal latch
absolute units received
ebon rain
The colors remind me of Bladerunner
crystal latch
nice
main dove
Here's a recent shot of my local desert moon.
Timing of the image is at sunrise, with a Filmic filter added for effect.
wooden sand
Doorway to New Adventures
sharp root
Best image what i have took...
pliant juniper
crude slate
when ur doing something naughty and daddy gives you 'that look'...
main dove
Some amazing screenshots here people
raven fable
Don't forget to ❤ your favourites! Any screenshot with 5 <3's will get immortalised in our Hall of Pins Fame 😃
crude hinge
Oh fuck
tawny silo
Oh my
high spindle
that sounds like a challenge and a half
left jetty
First planet I visited in my starter system with RROH
languid temple
Well Atlas arose, what's NEXT?
limpid plover
one goofy boi
ebon canopy
crystal latch
@gilded arch is that a vykeeen faction quest
main dove
@real plinth sorry to ping you but could you remove @gilded arch pic?
real plinth
done 😃
main dove
Thanks!
crystal latch
laslt one I dub Gekguana
raven fable
Kermit, that you?
crude slate
hes on a planet with vortex cubes also so i see him all the time >.
raven fable
haha cute
crude slate
need to invite more people here. Its not only beautiful but it has cool nightclubs, like this one 😄
main dove
oh sweet
viral oasis
main dove
Beautiful
viral oasis
Thanks!
tawny silo
Wish I could share my recent screens but a bug on ps4 is randomly preventing me from it
main dove
Let me guess
You press the share button
and then it doesn't take a screenshot?
Because that's what's been happening to me
raven fable
Mine takes forever to take a screenshot. I have to sit and wait, but it does it eventually. I think because of 4K
tawny silo
No but then I use the share option in the gallery or when I want to connect an account through ps4 settings, it gives me some errorcode
main dove
You gotta share some of those 4k screenshots matthew
raven fable
Haha, I will soon! I've been too busy playing #other-games haha
dry reef
Just crafted a warp cell from this monolith
shut whale
Wait this is not like the others 
main dove
that doesn't belong here
@dry reef Sorry but you gotta post in #off-topic-bond-james-bond
This is for game screencaps only
dry reef
Have your attorney call mine
main dove
don't be an idiot
dry reef
Relax one pic
main dove
off topic pics go in #off-topic-bond-james-bond
dry reef
Ok we'll get iff this topic
dry reef
😭
Sorry I broke the thread...do you think we'll survive???
Can we live another day?
Wont happen again.
main dove
@warped thistle Hey nyx sorry for pinging you, but could you delete that pic above. It's not no mans sky related and definitely not a screencap
main dove
No, just people trying to follow rules and make sure others follow the rules as well
dry reef
If you have the power to delete then just delete I'm new here and I was nust being silly. You came on a bit strong. But no hard feelings
Hi. @dry reef this is a screencap of NMS only. Please keep those types of posts in the #off-topic-bond-james-bond side. Thanks
No so difficult and not as rude
main dove
I think I said that
dry reef
Meh
Sorry im just waking up and you felt a little bit d-bag but AGAIN no hard feelings. I hope we could move on and become pals
hearty rover
my recent discovery: https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/937194385971421015/5ACA3D1ABBCB01747C2EA7D35F99BD9D73F51565/ 😲
tawny silo
This sorry ass error code doesn’t let me share stuff. Been a while like this now, and there is nothing about it on the PS4 help website
tawny silo
I have 54 screenshots to share... Lmao
Alright but I don’t want to lose data and shit
I’ma contact the playstation support
tawny silo
Since when can u grow plants like that on tables
sudden abyss
since glitches
limpid plover
zenith crag
I wish I was a good base builder
knotty oar
raven fable
@pliant turret 😃
raven fable
Haha no problem buddy!
Some of these screens are great!! But are they all vanilla?! Don’t forget to state if your screens are modded you budding photographers!!
pliant turret
xenophotographers, thank you very much! 😄
wooden sand
Is it normal to be that small?
copper robin
Its normal, but some shuttles are much smaller
https://nomanssky.gamepedia.com/Uruokaya_S26 like this little guy
crystal latch
i tried hard to find a good shuttle
but couldnt
couldn't even find a good looking one
wooden sand
Journey's Checkpoint
dry reef
@copper robin ???
copper robin
Ur base
dry reef
Oh...not mine my friend @slim jolt
dry reef
@copper robin can we talk somewhere else please??? I got in a little trouble in this room and now I'm terrified of it
copper robin
Alright dm then
main dove
@dry reef 😉
dry reef
@main dove 😉
wooden sand
@main dove @dry reef
limpid plover
this is why when mp comes out im making a furry destroyer fleet
vivid falcon
Notices your freighter OwO whats this?
wooden sand
This character is of my creation
Though I posted it because you two were replying to each other with winking faces xD
copper robin
my base on classic filter looks nice 😮
main dove
That's an amazing drawing! @wooden sand
jaunty plover
next geode
elfin knot
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/844839649404121890/2640D69942DA55E61A11AC8A15863C7376C2CACE/ Unmodded btw. Just a dark ps4 system.
crude slate
i need to turn this shinto temple into my base maybe 😮
limber bronze
crude slate
that planets looking sharp 😮
main dove
A plateload of ouch
fossil isle
crude slate
help D: I tried to make a korvax divide by 0 and now the planet is gone D:
main dove
Lmao
copper robin
back in pathfinder, S class
https://i.imgur.com/DPV3DD0.jpg AR 1st save
Current save
solar violet
@fossil isle I see that you're using the constructs compatibility patch with RaYRoD's Overhaul. Is it working as intended?
main dove
Nice!
tawny silo
main dove
What did you do?
tawny silo
Idk it suddenly worked again lol ;p
main dove
O
main dove
Some nice screenshots
main dove
cute turtle like creature
tawny silo
Where the worms lay the eggs: heridium piles
Ship battle
Aight done
tawny silo
Thanks 😄 That's the point of my screenshots to make em look as close to modded as possible while they are made on a natural copy of NMS
Not all of my screenshots but some of em
copper robin
@tawny silo
tawny silo
Knew it xD
solar violet
Found these guys. (RaYRoD's Overhaul, WIP Reboot)
tawny silo
Sweet!
little tundra
I think I found a new home
green dawn
that looks nice
tawny silo
wat
tawny silo
Give the mod name too
plain vector
copper robin
Modded screenshots please indicate
drifting bear
Please indicate if images are from a modded game!
It's a very important distinction to make.
solar violet
Spent a few hours working on this template, that I will use for a broader range of things. (Using RaYRoD's Overhaul) WIP Reboot
crude slate
looks very nice 😮
solar violet
Thanks!
crude slate
havent tried modded bbut that makes me want to lol ^^ i guess this game is an excellent canvas for people to do work on
solar violet
No Man's Sky to me feels like it has infinite potential, and I love working with this game... as I also see it as an execellent canvas to work with.
crude slate
infinite potential, huh? ^^
languid geyser
This mod looks pretty cool tbh
solar violet
@crude slate Yes, indeed! The game's engine in it's current state isn't even using 1% of it's potential.
@languid geyser Thanks!
languid geyser
Yeah i just got it on PC as i have had it on PS4 since launch so gonna start modding it, this is my first pick @solar violet
solar violet
@languid geyser That's awesome man. Unfortunately, the current public version has certain specific issues leftover (most of them are ironed out). However, I can assure you that I am working hard on a newer, more superior version again. This time I am remaking the entire project from scratch after 10,000 hours invested on the former version. It will be a reboot of the Overhaul mod.
Anyway, here are a few more screenshots from the work in progress new version of 'RaYRoD's Overhaul'
languid geyser
Wow that amazing @solar violet the amount of dedication in this is astounding, terrific job!!
copper robin
severe dragon
gusty edge
@solar violet make a version with increased leaf densidy please
crude slate
@solar violet shouldnt you wait until next comes out? you never know what changes theyve made to it 😮
solar violet
Hi, @crude slate. I just responded to you in #nms-modding
copper robin
a glitch that happens when you land in a freighter right after a sentinel space battle (Lvl 5)
literally i went through the ceiling and this happens XD
drifting bear
woah
wild pumice
midnight solar
Noice
crude slate
"aww this system sucks" "WTF DID U SAY CHILD"
crude slate
Also look at this majestic guy 😄 absolutely imperial!!
solar violet
So, I just overhauled the way that the game's engine generates all things. The game is now practically seamless, and you can barely ever see anything generating or fading in (though it still does).
I was also just flying across a planet at full speed and I did not see anything fading in/generating except one or two trees that were extremely far away. Also, this was a dense and tall forest. Every asset in the game now feels like it has always been there, and that it will always be there.
https://i.imgur.com/OEp0BIk.png
Anyway, that's screenshot is a rainforest variant that I quickly made for testing.
crude slate
that looks pretty amazing 😄 also the seamlessness is very cool, thats a huge for immersion 😮 good job!
solar violet
Thank you. It feels so much better, without seeing things fade in every few seconds.
Also, the antelopes in this game are really cute. They're one of my fav creatures apart from the Diplos
wise pivot
I love those tendril plants
copper robin
they give grav ball
copper robin
heh, but its rare to find a planet that have vortex cube and grav ball. Non-extreme planet
wise pivot
For sure, that's super rare
wise pivot
I do be
Also on PS4 though
Just haven't made almost any progress since it's nicer on PC
copper robin
are you in eissentam there
copper robin
lol ok
buoyant hatch
That looks great!
solar violet
Thanks! 😃
wise steppe
Is this applied to the grass as well?
solar violet
Yeah
main dove
oh sweet!
hardy shadow
gusty edge
gremlins? #nomods
short wind
new home world paradise planet
covert mulch
covert mulch
38 slot s-class explorer ship
just found an Exotic S-class, this system is crazy
another one of these ships, they're everywhere
covert mulch
crystal latch
naive vector
I think I need more warp cells
wheat prawn
Never enough warp cells!!
solar violet
RaYRoD's Overhaul, WIP Reboot (Flooded Forest)
https://i.imgur.com/r8YqOwr.png
https://i.imgur.com/tJTIeo9.png
main dove
its less Sci fi 😉
solar violet
Water World Forest variant:
https://i.imgur.com/65Jv01c.png
Planning to do more concept art atmospheric replications:
https://imgur.com/EKmOTe2
https://imgur.com/uHoXjNl
^ Replicated the IGN footage space Atmospherics
main dove
wise pivot
@main dove what does that mod do?
main dove
waw, i cant even say, its all my mods since the start of atlas rises 😉 + lo2k and jhookahs
wise pivot
Oh gotcha haha, thought it was a single thing. I don't mod but it looked different than some of the things I've seen so I was curious. Thanks!
main dove
yeah, actually its all splitable on several parts
since its the end of the modding period ( next is coming) i did a version with (almost ) all mashup
wise pivot
Ah very cool. Do you make the mods or just use them?
main dove
no no i made most of them, others are from my friends jjhookah and lo2k
wow
They look amazing
thx man
wise pivot
Okay nice! Looking good. I dabbled a little when the game was released but wanted to play so bad so I stopped hahaha.
But yeah with NEXT coming it makes sense to wind down a bit, since you have no way of knowing what will come with it and how it will change the landscape of modding
solar violet
@wise pivot Do you ever wonder what NMS would be like with the game's generation being overhauled, so that there's practically no fadein?
If you look back at the trailers (or gameplay demonstrations), the transition from space to planet was very smooth. Alongside the casual exploration's generation being very subtle.
wise pivot
Don't want to shoot you down too fast but I don't actually use mods, I like playing the game vanilla. I've seen your photos of that though, looks very cool. I was curious to know though, how do you deal with performance hits from rendering more of the distant fauna and landscape?
P.s. I'm in comp engineering so no need to spare gritty details 😉
solar violet
Ah, yeah no worries. I'm also an avid vanilla player on PC and PS4 :P
What I'm asking is... "Do you ever wonder, what NMS would be like, with the game's generation overhauled interally?" So, that it feels like the game does not need to generate things consistently.
wise pivot
Also meant Flora, not fauna, guess both apply though haha
And yeah I think it'd be neat to see structures on distant planets for example
solar violet
It was like this pre-release, as there was barely any need to fadein while flying down to planets, or on planets.
wise pivot
But that's shooting for the moon (no pun intended)
solar violet
Like right here for example:
https://youtu.be/nmwG6Sj1Yfg?t=196
And this planet makes lovely screenshots ❤
wise pivot
I think most of the prerelease stuff was due to them not having to load as many assets or something. Each one of the E3 planets was a premade biome, still run through the generation algo of course.
solar violet
Turns out that's not case. 😛
wise pivot
But even the diplo vids and other things were just using prerendered models with no rigging for procedural animations
solar violet
Not entirely. 😛
wise pivot
I mean, the ones from the trailer weren't built in a way to be placed into the procedural generation initially, although I'm sure it could be tweaked to work
solar violet
I've discovered a superformula related mechanism that HelloGames utilized for objects w/o a selectable amount of procedural parts and also for creatures.
wise pivot
They were just models with an animation loop, at least the specific files I looked at were
solar violet
That talk about "Not a single blade of grass, or snowflake, being identical, or creature" it's true.
wise pivot
Oh yeah for sure
That's what I enjoy haha
Everything's always different, even if similar
solar violet
So, those diplos that we're referring to right now...
Although (they didn't have proc parts) they didn't need any.
Because they were always drastically different.
As the result of a mechanic that I was the first to discover internally.
The same mechanism was applied to various flora, and other models.
Think of it as a blender plugin, where (the game would morph) these assets on the fly based off of bone structure.
There's oooold articles written about this, speaking of a consistently unique universe. However, (this mechanic is not currently enabled) - And it was very scarcely shown to us pre-release.
wise pivot
Do you happen to have any examples? Also I'm gonna he afk for a bit, I'm on mobile and need to do some stuff around the house 😛 feel free to DM with more though.
solar violet
The pre-release planets, were also not entirely "pre-made". You see, I have restored/ported various E3/pre-release planets and I understand their biome structure (although it's alien to the game's current biome structure). The pre-release biomes, even that rainforest Oria V were fully procedural biomes.
There were a few scripted events in place, but they had a full on procedural universe.
And all of the assets are still present.
And many of the creaturess there (that are unused) are procedural creatures, but that mechanism was used a substitue for the non-proc part.
Also, it has been thought that "The reason why the game's fade-in and generation" was so sublte, was the result of a lesser finished game.
However, turns out to not be the case.
I've recently overhauled the game's procedural generation, engine mechanic and have created a seamless in-game universe.
main dove
I'm kind of sceptical on the "no blade of grass is the same"
solar violet
So that everything feels as if it was always there, and always will be there in all directions.
@main dove It's quite simple.
Think of Blender.
You can morph, stretch, twist, do practically anything to an object.
main dove
mhm
solar violet
They had that flowing on the fly, for each individual model asset being spawned (rather than duplicate models being spawned identically)
Like a real-time blender morphing mechanism.
Same concept applied to creatures, with rules, in relevancy to bone structure
HelloGames wrote about it.
Very vaguely
main dove
🤔
solar violet
Love this creature
A variant of this creature was shown in the Stephen Colbert footage
In a trailer, and also in some off the record scenarios.
One of them is a proc model (with several) procedural parts
copper pine
Hmm I think I do some screenshots today :P
solar violet
@wise pivot It's all good. Well, depends what kind of example that you're looking for. There's xml data for it. You can also even see it visually when applied. There is still 1 model that has it active.
But yeah, going back to what I first asked... it's 100% possible to replicate old footage in the aspect of seamless generation.
I've recently accomplished that and am planning to record a video for it.
Except this time it's pushed further.
With zero fps cost
Something else to point out, is that this mechanic is currently not used at all.
Adding onto what you said earlier here: "That's what I enjoy haha
Everything's always different, even if similar"
solar violet
What I'd like to add to what you said was, that the mechanic would make it so that it is not similar at all (and always totally different) - responding to Zoid.
@ Abloid-26, it's a mystery.
As to why not, but it doesn't upset me.
I find it interesting.
solar violet
There are literally tens of thousands of things that I've seen, that are just not turned on.
And one might thing "bugs" "performance"
Although, I don't know what their reason was.. and I respect and trust HG's
main dove
Maybe it messed with other code?
solar violet
But from my experience, there's no consequences of it.
Nah
Designer choice possibly
main dove
I really want to see this stuff in action now
solar violet
Look at Achaia here for example:
In this photo, you can notice a few thinns.
There is a crescent world variant (I believe that they had them flowing dynamically, while also having eclipses flowing dynamically, planetary rotation which has been seen in-game before, and binary star systems)
in that photo
There's also a more natural lighting
The vignette at the top is (more subtle) - currently the vignette in-game takes up a majority of the screen
In pre-release snaps, they also utilized a great portion of a set of files that handle atmospherics that I have been working with
This has a great deal to do with the visuals taking place here
There is a subtle heightfog on the ground
The terrain on this particular planet was very rough
You can see a singular flyby
(It's possible to do so) - in the vanilla game they are always in groups of 4-5
I added about 3,000 AI rules
for all spaceship activity
errant knot
When I think of NMS I think of that picture
solar violet
After looking back at pre-release snaps and footages... I decided to revive freighters that warp into planets, fly on planets, on-planet space battles like the Infinite Worlds trailer (not referring to ai combat) - Like full on planetary space battles as if you would see them in space. Alongside various other things.
Yeah, it's a lovely snap that HG's took
But yeah, @main dove 98% of what I mentioned isn't utilized
Just from that one photo
(Not saying this negatively)
But to emphasize that this is a game with great potential. Not only with what "can be added NEXT"
But what has always been here
And this is a fragment
solar violet
I've been creating a modernized E3/IGN/Pre-release build for the past year and a half, and every day is a step in that direction. It has required a lot of research, testing, theory, and implementation
If it doesn't, then I will do it
I'm not going to stop until I surpass (what was)
And then I will surpass what surpasses what was.
main dove
and then to infinity and beyond
solar violet
It's a great learning experience, and I'm also learning a lot of inside secrets from the outside in 😛
But if you send me any pre-release photo
Anything
I can label almost anything/everything that is in that picture
What's going on
It's at a point where when I look at photos of NMS and pinpoint everything that's going on.
main dove
What about this video?
I really liked this video
The lush planets look really good
solar violet
This is an IGN footage video ofc, All of these planets are in the files exactly. Yavil, Yhzeluez, Balari V, and PHlek
Yavil = Lush, Yhzeluez = Scorched, Balari V = Frozen, Phlek = Toxic
I've actually ported/re-created these biomes
I recently ported over the official ecology table from Phlek
Anyway, in one of the IGN footages of Balari V, you can see that the space station (being used at that time) - alongside various older footages was an atmospheric Atlas Station.
main dove
Can you share some recreated screenshots of Yavil?
solar violet
The ground had different triplanar texture mapping within the shaders (to reveal more detail on the terrain and the ground)
main dove
I really want to see some sc's of that
solar violet
Sure
sec
This is from the v10 Overhaul
This is a Yavil variant re-creation
solar violet
I added that extra, (as it was used in older builds) than the IGN footage build with Yavil, balari v, Yhzeluez, Phlek
A video of Yavil
And here's a video of Balari V that I ressurected and improved
It's old footage
of an older Overhaul build
From last year
solar violet
But yeah, sadly not all of the pre-release planets are present
Though the assets are
But that isn't an issue for me
I have a thing for looking at concept arts, fan arts, pre-release photos or footages
As a concept
And re-creating it in-game
Sand planet:
https://imgur.com/1TgCOqL
Is there any strictly-prerelease planet that you would like to see recreated in-game?
That you've seen before?
For the overhaul reboot, I'm going to be heavily focusing on this.
I restored an off the record E3 planet named
"IKOLAMSKY"
Recently
Also, "Yaasrij" from the Portal trailer
narrow willow
Oria V
solar violet
Sure, I did Oria V in the past... but I am planning to re-do it
narrow willow
And Imlyanovor-Kai
solar violet
From my folders, https://i.imgur.com/n7R8MCk.png
main dove
Habik-Ogan?
solar violet
Of the old version
Ohhh, I loved those
Those are from the video
"A tour of 5 new planets"
Yes, I'm gonna do that.
👍
main dove
yeeet
main dove
I don't know
solar violet
He starts off in the cave
And a bird flies by
And there's mountains and grass
Gonna check quck
narrow willow
Phlek?
main dove
omg
solar violet
solar violet
NMS on Steroids 😛
narrow willow
Phlek is from the other IGN 5-planet tour I think.
solar violet
Yup, that's also on my todo list
I restored the Phlek ecology table
Still gotta do the biome
I want to do them all.
That's my goal.
But I'm not just aiming to restore what was.
I'm also pushing it further and creating dozens of variations of those biomes.
While also fusing several multi-biome ish aspects to it
Which will be additional, apart from the original version
tawny silo
That's what the natural game misses, multi-biome planets and planets with different regions, like a north and south pole with different climates
solar violet
Well, in this case... it's sort of the illusion of multi-biomes. Like, you may cross a sandy desert ish area... only to run into a swampy alienish looking underwater biome (that can fuse with the land), prior to traversing forward into a grassy plains that leads up to a dense forest.... before more dirt.
That kind of stuff happens with the overhaul
tawny silo
Yeah 😄 that's cool
Talking about swamps
I have never seen a swamp in No Mans Sky
They were in the game in 1.0
solar violet
That picture I shared is a pre-release swamp haha
solar violet
Oh yeah, I saw that video that you shared before.
It's sort of swampyish
Here is one of my swamp biomes
I am planning to re-do it, but here's one of them:
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main dove
Is it possible to have crashed underwater ships like in prerelease?
solar violet
No filter or external post processing my friend
That planet just happened to have dense fog.
tawny silo
: O
solar violet
I have dynamic weather that transitions in real-time
Storms also transiton to grey clouds at times on lush planets
tawny silo
Hahah well that says a lot about me, a natural game player, not knowing the so many features in the mods
solar violet
And a subtle depth of field kicks in
(Another mechanic) used pre-release
These are all gems from (pre-release builds) that I like to re-realize and do my own take on
tawny silo
Yeah in photo mode you can make the clouds extremely thick, wonder why they haven't implemented that during heavy storms
solar violet
That's possible too.
For it to flow like that in real-time
I set that up
It really helps with immersion
tawny silo
Exactly
Well, fingers crossed for some more awesome immersion and variation on planets in NEXT 🤞
solar violet
Pre-release snap.
tawny silo
I have the pre release artbook, so many designs that haven't made it to this state of the game
solar violet
Nice!
Before the game's release, (like many others) I loved to watch the footages on replay all day haha
Just wanted to explore these places
As they look amazing.
Anticipating the game's release
But even to this day, that marvel, that internal spark has not faded
I'm just trying to re-make it myself, because I still feel the same about NMS
tawny silo
Those trailers got me so hyped up I was ready to spent 100 euros on it, as I did, I regretted it SO much back then but now that I got to know the ideology of Hello Games, the nice community and just how No Mans Sky is, together with the Steel Casing, the box, the comic book, the art book, it's defenitely worth it after all
solar violet
Oh yes, they work so hard on their game and listen to their community.
And the game even in it's vanilla state imo is a masterpiece.
Even w/o everything that once was
tawny silo
Yeah it's so unique
solar violet
I really love indie games
They express more creative freedom
And are typicallly founded upon passion, rather than an ulterior motive for a quick cash grab
And are typically unique
Whether or not it's popular is irrelevant to me
But there's a lot of indie games that are just gems in their own style
tawny silo
That's very true, a lot of triple A dev's should take notes when looking at how Indie Games developers interact with their communities
Lots of the games popular right now have dev's doing what they want often leaving the communities dissapointed
solar violet
I mean, I know that "Proteus" is basically a walking simulator... but it's a work of art.
You play it, and you just wanna go to those places.
Alike many others
Yea true
They spoil us with creative content for free
tawny silo
It's so neat
tawny silo
Yes but is it me or do herds appear more often now
tawny silo
Not smart or something, but I feel like I see more packs of creatures spawning as like a family
solar violet
But the herds there, walk in unison
and stay together
Here's a better example
In this gameplay demo
sec
Right here, at this time.
You can see a little herd of creatures in a group, sticking together
tawny silo
Yeh that feels way more natural
solar violet
And here is the infamous herd rhino from the trailer:
https://i.imgur.com/WaMXsj0.png
As you can see, it's a procedural model
tawny silo
I wonder what they did, if that was the actual pre-release game, to change it to the 1.0 state with way less immersion and variation
solar violet
It's a mystery to me, but it doesn't make me angry like it does or did to some people
But I just love to look at it and marvel and replicate bit by bit
Stephen Colbert Footage:
https://i.imgur.com/FNiZEwK.png
tawny silo
It made me angry when I pre-ordered the game for 100 euros to turn out it wasn't like in the trailers, but I got over that about a year ago and I am fine with it now. I believe hello games is gonna work into the directions of the pre-release game, with better fauna and flora and stuff
solar violet
Oria V Rhino:
https://i.imgur.com/xcCMXB7.png
Honestly, it seems like game is more centered on realism than the nostalgic more painterly style
That was like walking in a painterly 80's scifi novel
tawny silo
And that is honestly so cool
solar violet
That's what stood out to me the most
solar violet
The pre-release shaders were far more different than all released versions
tawny silo
True that
tawny silo
But comparing 1.0 to when they changed it to the 1.38 shaders
Don't know the exact update
solar violet
Yeah, it's a lot different now than then
tawny silo
Yeah and those patrolling sentinel ships 👌
solar violet
There's a super short flash of a super formula related tree
This is the very first trailer.
tawny silo
But like the crashed freighter in that trailer
solar violet
And then literally make it and put it in-game
tawny silo
They implemented that in the game in an update
So just like that, I have faith in Hello Games putting more pre-release stuff in the game the community has always wanted
solar violet
Which one?
solar violet
That freighter?
tawny silo
Yea
solar violet
Nah
That's a different freighter
In an unused directory
The new one is a different model
tawny silo
Yeah okay but the concept
solar violet
Yeah, the concept. Indeed.
However..
The concept in that photo is deeper than you think 😛
Those sentinels are actually patrolling that freighter and are baited too it for a specific purpose
(There's data in the files with that unused freighter) for that
Also, that planet, that terrain, the vibes there man........ ❤
tawny silo
The investigating sentinels really complete it, wonder why they haven't put that with the update
solar violet
There's only so much that can be implemented within a set timeframe
But, it's possible that they didn't plan to
tawny silo
Picture of some sort of space port in the art and concept book
tawny silo
Huh wdym
tawny silo
Yeah hahah
tawny silo
The most wicked landscape in the artbook
solar violet
Was actually about to mention that next hehe
tawny silo
Hahah aye
tawny silo
Yeah so close to the planet
solar violet
It's a concept art replication
I managed to convert an Atlas Station into a fully functional space station
I put a space station inside of it too
And allowed them to loom in the atmosphere
Here is one of them:
https://imgur.com/x3OIj1e
They dynamically show up
There have been times where they have
looked as if they were on the planet
like that old pre-release photo
And one time it crashed into a planet
tawny silo
I noticed that 😄 awesome work
solar violet
Thanks:)
gilded cairn
He took the pose
copper pine
copper pine
gentle epoch
Lol
pliant turret
@copper pine - Are your shots from yesterday PS4, PC modded, or PC "real"?
gentle epoch
You mean vanilla.
crude slate
main dove
(Space adventures mod)
solar violet
Lo2k did awesome clouds
It's a shader related mod. I re-worked it further.
@main dove No more pixelated clouds.
main dove
You gotta show some screenshots
solar violet
Sure, I can take some. However, it's one of those things that are better seen in motion.
Formerly, awesome shader mods like (Lo2k's True Clouds) shown in that pic, which is a great improvement to the game...
Would improve clouds, but also further pixelate things (on occasion)... which he talked about.
As a side effect, to the shader adjustments.
However, I worked a fix for it.
It would usually occur when flying down to a planet
or at night time
But now it's consistent all around, at all angles, at all times of day/night with any color... like this photo:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/377229206351773696/461817412069621760/Forest.png
main dove
@main dove the clouds are from lo2k 😃 (true clouds )
Man I want those clouds in next
look amazing
great job ray
and lo2k
I swear y'all makin some crazy stuff
solar violet
Thanks man!
Lo2k's true clouds, + the adjustments that I made and other shader changes feels great in-game.
Hopefully, on NEXT we'll see that new cloud tech 😛
main dove
i prefer lo2k version :p
solar violet
@main dove What would you like to see in-game?
I prefer our more-improved version.
main dove
Hmmm
You know
I don't know
It's only when you add things
When you add your own stuff that makes me think "Damn I want that in vanilla"
otherwise I have no idea
solar violet
When I finish my PS4 port, what would you look forward to the most?