New data indicate that Starfield planets will be depicted on a realistic scale

One attentive to details the user recently discovered evidence that in the upcoming role -playing game Starfield will be accurately scaled images of the planets, contrary to some previously widespread opinion.

Although a significant part of the numerous Starfield planets will be generated procedurally, not all celestial bodies that players can visit will be completely fictional. Bethesda has already confirmed several dozens of such places inspired by real astronomical objects, including Mars, Jupiter, Mercury and Pluto, as well as numerous famous moons and asteroids outside the solar system.

One of the small problems of the players, which periodically arose after the release of Starfield Direct was on June 11, was that many intra -game images of real planets look unrealistically large if you look at them from the surface of nearby moon or other celestial objects located nearby. Exploring these statements, the Reddit Nimbulan user managed to get some evidence that Bethesda did not necessarily overdo it with the scale of such planets. In particular, Nimbulan used the NASA Solar System Simulator program to get an assessment of how much Jupiter should be, if you look at it with Io, one of its many moon, which is already confirmed to visit Starfield.

Although the viewing angle of 90 degrees, used for modeling, was slightly smaller than the previously shown images of Jupiter from Starfield, the perceived size of the planet, calculated using the NASA tool, mainly corresponds to the players taken to the IO. As a result, the author of the experiment came to the conclusion that the planets of Starfield will not necessarily have an unrealistic scale when observing from afar.

In fact, the cards for research, inspired by heavenly objects, will probably be much smaller than their real analogues, since Bethesda never claimed that Starfield will be exciting the universe with hundreds of planets of realistic size. But as for the alleged sizes of these astronomical bodies, it seems that the developer will at least sometimes include realism. And although it remains to find out how often this will happen, the planets of Starfield already look incredibly diverse, which will be interesting to explore, regardless of their size.