I'm all for more exploration and and scenic planets, but it would be nice if they tried to get the planet and star sizes at least remotely realistic and not spanning three quarters of the sky.
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#52
Posté 05 mars 2016 - 05:39
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I'm all for more exploration and and scenic planets, but it would be nice if they tried to get the planet and star sizes at least remotely realistic and not spanning three quarters of the sky.
That's actually perfectly realistic. For example, the full Moon has an angular size of about 0.52 degrees as seen from Earth. As seen from the Moon, the Earth has an angular size of 1.9 degrees, roughly 3.64 times larger than the full Moon. It gets even better in the outer solar system: Neptune literally appears over 15 times the size of the full Moon from its largest moon Triton.
However, I agree that it is often exaggerated. But it's not impossible.
#53
Posté 05 mars 2016 - 06:20
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That's actually perfectly realistic. For example, the full Moon has an angular size of about 0.52 degrees as seen from Earth. As seen from the Moon, the Earth has an angular size of 1.9 degrees, roughly 3.64 times larger than the full Moon. It gets even better in the outer solar system: Neptune literally appears over 15 times the size of the full Moon from its largest moon Triton.
However, I agree that it is often exaggerated. But it's not impossible.
Yeah, I know it's theoretically possible to have objects with much larger apparent size than earth's moon. but not even jupiter as seen from IO comes anywhere close to what we have seen in the games. and jupiter is pretty damn massive with IO being in a very close orbit.
palaven seen from its moon for instance covers the entire FOV = more than 70°. chances are, anything that close to a planet would have been ripped apart by tidal forces.
and a planet orbiting that close to a star (as seen in the OP) would be scorching hot, if not already liquid. regardless of the star's size.
#54
Posté 05 mars 2016 - 07:22
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Jupiter would appear nearly 40 times as large as the full Moon if you were to look at it from Io's surface, but I wouldn't recommend that 
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Posté 05 mars 2016 - 09:20
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Jupiter would appear nearly 40 times as large as the full Moon if you were to look at it from Io's surface, but I wouldn't recommend that
Let's just chill on Ganymede.
#56
Posté 05 mars 2016 - 11:42
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I'm all up in the future on a civilized Europa like, "Ganymede? Io? Brah"
#57
Posté 06 mars 2016 - 12:05
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ME2 had its moments too:
And so did ME3.
I believe ME1 had some on of the best views because of two reasons: i) the lighting engine seems to be different. So the suns and the planets look better. It was probably very demanding, that's why ME1 was such a technical mess and why they changed it for ME2 and ME3. And ii) they are very "pure". You land on a barren planet and just look up and see them, they are there in the open.
Aite!!! Mass Effect 2 evoking Pandora 
ME1 definitely had some of the more striking vistas of space from the uncharted worlds, capturing both its beauty and danger.
ME2 and ME3 had its fair share as well, though I'm in agreement ME1 had more.
Lesuss in ME3 was one for me, as well as,
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