Is there any difference between how you create effects for outer space versus planet side?
TL;DREffects differ between space and planets, such as debris under gravity, contrails only in atmosphere and engine trails fading out as air thickens, and more atmosphere-reactive effects are planned where needed.
Yep. Definitely.
What are the differences? Or what are some of the differences?
Well, we have some effects which are looking different, and some of them have small differences. So let's just say an explosion. In space, often you have explosions with debris, and debris in space doesn't have gravity, but the same explosion on a planet would look different because it has gravity. That's a simple example, but we are having a whole new set of atmospheric effects coming on, like contrails and engine trails we've shown a few weeks ago. Let's focus on contrails. First of all, you don't see them outside the atmosphere. And in the atmosphere itself, the effect looks different. So based on the density of the atmosphere, the effect can be more or less visible. On the moon, where the atmosphere is not thick, the contrail will be just very subtle. You won't even see that. That's what you're expecting. On the other hand, we have engine trails, which are only visible in space, but there is a transition zone when the atmosphere gets thicker and thicker, and that's the region where we are fading out those engine trails. So there are different rules we are applying for different effects, and we do that where we think it's needed. So let's just say we are also discussing having different engine effects in the atmosphere, because we think that the same force applied to those particles in the engine, they should just look different in the atmosphere, because you have density, you have humidity, you have all those different variables. This should just look different. For some effects you will see in the future that there won't be too many differences, but we want to do as much as we can to make them look different, like react to the actual atmosphere. So that's your answer.
I have a simple addition to that. In space there's no gravity, of course, but on a planet there is. An addition to that is we have to make everything work with everything in between as well, because our gravity is going to be gradual, or, it's a gradient. It's not either on or off. So you think you're done with something and then, okay, so how does it look with 1.5 gravity? Like, oh, okay.