What is the likelihood of some form of surface vegetation being included? Such as trees or shrubbery? These would add a lot of beauty to the cinematic views this game and engine have been so successful at producing thus far.
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I believe trees and clouds are a stretch goal in the kickstarter. This engine does lifeless planets well, and terran planets look good from altitude but lacking at zero meters.
Hello @joshuakuehn , and welcome to this forum 
The last time I’ve read about this feature, it was described as “a nice feature to have but not immediately necessary”.
It’s not explicitly written in the stretch goal, but I guess it could be included anywhere between the 600k and 1M goal.
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There’s currently some placeholder trees that you can see in a few of the videos but they are entirely placeholder. (low res, low density, bad pop in at high speed).
If you take a look at Outerra (another game capable of rendering a full sized Earth) you can see that very nice trees are possible on this scale. it’s just a matter of funding and time.
Awesome, let’s promote the heck out of this and hit some of those stretch goals then!
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