RE: staring at the moon from our marble.
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 2:13 am
Have to say am constantly blow away with Shadmar's work.. I agree the moon should look like a moon as apposed to a non discrete dot in the sky.. Yes a picture off a moon on a ~35mm type lens will always look like a dot.... The universe should be fun , not dull , even if a degree of artistic licence needs to be taken... Not sure if changing a pilot's field FOV equates as much with taking artistic license as it does a proper simulated optical rendering in replicating the human eye experience on the surfaces of any world. One benefit from having a wide field of view is you get wider landscape details and it's helpful for combat and probably helps in navigation to find things more easily.The price payed for that is that everything ends up looking smaller. The only way you could have it both ways is if you always started on any ground station with a narrower FOV and through altitude, your field would widen to the default FOV.
That's why most of the star systems in the sectors near to Earth are real places, although with the planets being invented. The above discussion is about how the Earths Moon looks from the surface of the Earth, unfortunately it doesn't look the same because of the FOV (Field-of-View) used for rendering but it is in the correct orbit, at the correct distance. Hope that's clearer 