With planetary LODs, as you go farther up from the planet everything lowers in LOD. Will the flora and fauna, as they get further down in LODs, expose players who are hiding?
TL;DRDistant LODs can affect what players see, but the team strives to make planets look as good from afar as up close and keeps refining existing LODs and textures.
Well, it does. But I think one of the things that we've always strived for is making it look as good from far away as it does up close and personal. And so that was a comment that Chris called out when we showed off the Lorville stuff. We showed it off from the player perspective, but what does it look like from a ship flying above? And how does that hold up? And those are all things that we're working on and working towards.
Absolutely. And even on top of the new stuff that we're working on, which is chunky in assets and flora and populating with more and even new planets, we're also constantly working on updating and maturing what we actually have. We recently did a pass on the textures to get seams to blend even smoother. We're looking at the LODs and how things fall off and how the LODs are blending together. Even though there's some things that may not be as substantial as, 'hey, here's a whole new moon with a whole new look,' we constantly have a group of guys that are pushing the existing tech we have to get it as mature as we want it to be.