Earth ?!

[hargn]

Hello,

There is a thing that nobody has spoken about and I saw on the 2nd Q/A stream.
I've just waited to release it on the french forum before to tell it to you.

So, if you look at the first minute and thirty seconds of the stream, you can easily distinguish the France, the north of Spain, Italy, so western Europe.

So the Earth is modeled for X4 engine!!!
So what could it implies for the X4 universe and the lore? If we had the Sol solar system in X4 with the terran faction, I really enjoy it!!!

Note for the developpers : The Earth is spinning clockwise. In reality, it spins counter-clockwise !!!

[CBJ]

Nice try, but I'm afraid your eyes are playing tricks on you.

[hargn]

Are you sure?

Because that's what I see in the stream :


And that is an example of west Europe as shared by the Nasa : https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30693

So maybe you want to keep that secret for a future annoucement, or for a futur DLC

[Sparky Sparkycorp]

Nice try, but I'm afraid your eyes are playing tricks on you.

- Earth not accurately modelled doesn't mean no Sol system
- 3rd rock from the sun.
- Half-Life 3 confirmed!

[RAVEN.myst]

Earth, the final frontier?

[Killjaeden]

They just use RL pictures as photo reference for textures. I mean, what other planet do we know of that has lighted cities at night?
Though i guess it's the artists task to maks/manipulate the photo reference so that it isnt recognizable as yet another earth every time you see the night sight of an inhabited planet.

[mr.WHO]

As Killjaeden said - maybe they used Earth city lights to test planetary city lights.
However there is no doubt that it was an Europe city lights.

[Morkonan]

IIRC, the "Earth city-lights at night" composite photo is open domain, meaning anyone can use it. So, it'd be a common, quick-fix, texture for "inhabited planet" needs.

That doesn't mean that's the final version, just that it's an easy-to-use quick fix to get a night-time texture for an inhabited planet.

[cdeeks]

Intresting lol

[mr.WHO]

Now I want to know, if it was actually Earth back then and that if the OP was actually right

[Alkeena]

Now I want to know, if it was actually Earth back then and that if the OP was actually right

Does look like the Moon and Starfield for sol.