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[2eyed]

Colors seem somewhat dull, but otherwise it looks fairly realistic. Hoping for an update again!

[Acetone]

Colors seem somewhat dull

Scattering + fairly hight altitude + screenshots are compressed by Twitter I think, so it looks washed out.

[cameni]

Mainly the distant forests are currently low contrast because of some limitations in current implementation.

[2eyed]

Is this 30m color data? Washed out colors could be a result of processing/blending?
Even with atmospheric scattering, I would assume a more colorful look.

[cameni]

Only forests and water are 30m. Vegetation index and ground colors are still 500m.

[Acetone]

I've seen several times people asking about Netherland being flooded. Seems like the new water mask will fix that:

Parts of the Netherlands that are below sea level are no longer flooded using the new water mask data #outerra

https://twitter.com/outerradev/status/900351231452774401

[Acetone]

Grass tufts

https://twitter.com/outerradev/status/908031606165819393
https://video.twimg.com/tweet_video/DJn5ybJXcAEpWnJ.mp4

[Jagerbomber]

Aw... Now we gotta mow the whole damned thing?....

[Acetone]

So I'm away one week and nobody to post updates?
 
Muchachos, muchachas...

Anyway, lots of goodies:

A test of adaptive steering wheel control animation

And a lot of lake stuff:

Lake seasonality data used to produce shallow waters. Needs higher resolution & different water scattering/absorption params for lake water

Inland water now using different optical parameters than sea water TODO: water class dataset

[Jagerbomber]

How did I miss that steering one?... I guess it never showed up in my subs.

[Varldsligist]

Water looks great!

[Revolver]

So I'm away one week and nobody to post updates?
  

nÖ, we just waited patiently for you...
Thx, Amigo.

[Occams Razer]

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The car steering thing looks pretty cool, though I'm pretty sure most passenger cars only have ~720 degrees of steering rotation lock-to-lock. That said, the one big gameplay feature I've been wanting in Outerra for years, is the ability for human characters to possess vehicles, watercraft, and aircraft. Hopefully that will open the floodgates for such features as cargo hauling, character inventories, and delivery missions. And gameplay in general.

As for the lakes thing (yay, lakes!), is there some form of global dataset for trophic state? Y'know, clear blue water vs. murky, algae-laden water?

[Acetone]

Comparison of 30m SRTM (currently used, noisy one) and 30m USGS NED data (Manhattan in upper left corner)

https://twitter.com/outerradev/status/918762846514827264

https://video.twimg.com/tweet_video/DMAZoTDVQAAOjk_.mp4

And Brano added :

Note SRTM noise is relatively small in amplitude, around ±2m. Might be worth to apply some filtering, also bringing the data size down

[Acetone]

https://twitter.com/outerradev/status/935907128140816384

Some stats: new wip rendering pipeline. New terrain import with filtered and leveled urban areas, restored vegetation index and trees. Global city import (alpha).
Here showing NY area with roughly 1.8mil buildings (rendered in various LOD stages) running on GTX 1080 @ 180fps