Glitchy LOD on asteroid field?

[Spidey]

So I came upon this truly shiny gem of an asteroid field. Literally.

At a distance.

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Closer up it becomes possible to tell what it is.

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[Spidey]

It appears to be a case of LOD being unloaded from memory if the game has been running for a while. Saving and restarting the game fixes this until the next time it happens.

[SamSlitherine]

Hi Spidey,

Just wondering if this issue has been fixed at all or are you still experiencing this?

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[rxnnxs]

I thought this is not a bug but intentionally.
If you are at a distance that you have the overview, it is on LOD "overview".
You go inside into detail, LOD is "show tiny objects".

If this really is not intended, please tell, I will upload it here.

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Here again. Fresh started game, just running to the point where asteroids are found.
Version [1.0.2.4]

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[Spidey]

I think it's on purpose that asteroid fields are shown as a "big rock" when zoomed out, but obviously it's supposed to look like a rock rather than a flashlight.

I initially thought, because the brightness was so high, that the LOD texture had gone missing or been corrupted, but I think something in the way I play the game has its brightness turned increasingly higher over time, meaning I start out with a nice rock-looking fields, then they become very bright rocks, and eventually they're just shiny bits of white as shown in initial comment.

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Asteroid field - Later - cropped.png (57.4 KiB) Viewed 325 times

This is just a cosmetic issue, not really gameplay significant, and I don't know exactly how to recreate.