Elite: Dangerous Horizons - New Planetary Graphics for Ice Worlds and other Planets

A look at the changes in the most recent release for Horizons. This update contains changes for the subsurface scattering on ice worlds as well as a few updates to other planets. It also contains a nice change to planetary Points of Interest.

[mykolaholyutyak]

Hi Obsidian! I simply love your videos/reviews. You make clear a lot of what is really heappening with this beta! Thank you!

[LazerFocus]

Wow... Watching the part at 4mins... I'm amazed. Looks like the quality textures we've been exposed to on ships and stations. That looked absolutely amazing. I wasn't hyped for Horizons too much but those few seconds seeing that have me really excited!

[ImAFlyingPancake]

It looks really fun to drive and fly around with a friend!
The second slot for another SRV in the cargo could be very interesting when multicrew comes out. :)

[Signal]

As always, great help and info, OA! Your work is greatly appreciated.

[antduude]

Fascinating that POI details that your wingman sees will also be visible to you, functioning much like data-link does with military aircraft back to ships and then out to other fleet assets. Nice graphical updates as well. I have a feeling there will be constant updates and refinements to planetside well past Horizons' launch. I really liked all that detail already on that one potato planetoid. Think of how much detail FD will be able to add just to Pluto over time, now that there's new, real-time updates to the planet's topography.

[dnkbmc]

LOL! I knew you're gonna make a video about Sub Surface Scattering :D And just when I'm about to check your channel, the video shows up! Excellent work!

[snwhunterwing]

Only recently discovered your channel but, man, I love your content! Starting to make my way through the ship reviews too which are also great.

[Huddison]

Are people who are not quite 'getting' ED Horizons, actually starting to realise how amazing this update really is??
You can land/venture anywhere on these damned planets and there are billions upon billions of them!

Mind-boggling stuff!

[williamarthurfenton]

One major common drawback with graphics still - in all games - is the very unnatural looking transition between connected objects-- we really need some kind of tech to blend in the rocks and that outpost in with the snow, but having some material pushed up against the sides. To me it just looks pretty weird as if the rocks and objects are floating.

[InkDropFalls]

still feel like the planets still drastic need of better textures on planet surface when close ....just that white/grey ...looks so unfinished all so the planet surface only casts the ships shadow and none of the hills the ground been so flat in color and lack of shadows it force's player to use hight range bar on the hud .. ...because you can not us the surface to judge distance because of the flat color and very toneless up close surface will lead you to crash

Another thing it really could do with would be the horizon indicator HUD need to be able to be fixed to player head movement ...ive noticed when in orbital cruise you cant see the planet very well ...because if you try to move your head at the surface you know longer see the HUD or orbital blue line ....and end up getting to close ..it makes trying to find a place to land or looking at the surface from high up frustrating ...All of that can be solved with a HUD locked to Player Head Look and View ....so i can look any where while still been able to keep my hight etc ....Much like you see in Jet simulator huds ...the ALT is all ways locked to players VIEW not the ship

[Prelmable]

3:26 - 3:49 long pause, some kind of error

[screamingiraffe]

great work as usual, but... your field of depth is either really off, or youtube is distorting the video..

[mrpositronia]

Looks really good. Looking forward to downloading Horizons when the day comes.

[Jesses]

Wow. I have never seen a game have such a drastic improvement in such a short time. They went from, well that looks okay, to WOW in less then a week.

[SweRaider]

Good! Now some of the mountains are actually starting to look like mountains! :P

[Swidhelm]

I don't know, that super bright ice world is how a sunny snowy day looks to me when I step outside. Bloody blinded.

[loopysausage]

I had a strange glitch happen yesterday. Came in too quick when entering Orbital Cruise. It dropped me out but it took a while so I ended up travelling through to the middle of the planet. :| Flying out from under the surface got me killed...

[QuillerArc]

+ObsidianAnt, you mentioned you tried out the Oculus in this last patch. Haven't had time to get on beta with classes wrapping up but I just about choked when I saw the new requirements for the Rift. What's your verdict, is it still playable on your system?

[iviajorjacobs]

Those ice worlds do look really impressive, the texture is amazing and mountains and ridges look more like ice now!! I do feel like Europa's texture looks unfinished. Also how do you change the srv camera? I'm using default for my controller but the b button on the srv is the thrusters, when I try to make it a key as well it does nothing.

[DynamiteToadie]

I've sure you've been asked this before, but is there any way you can post your hud color setting? It's really nice. :D Thanks!