Is there a way to mod the surface scanner heatmap

[moonlightavenger]

With actually useful colors, like red, yellow and green?

[Doom]

Origineel geplaatst door moonlightavenger:

Someone please explain to me what the ♥♥♥♥ this thing is reading. The filter says it is Osseus, which is supposed to spawn in rocky areas.

This thing is giving you general area where osseus might possibly be.

Imagine that Osseus farts. Each fart is then carried by the wind and thinly spreads to cover hundreds of square kilometers of planetary surface, and your ships impossibly sensitivie equipment detects tiniest molecule of it from space without giving you information of the density because reasons. That's roughly what heatmap tells you.

Basically, you go to highlighted area, then there you look for an extremely specific feature on terrain where this thing might spawn. The you need to find two more of it. Osseus spawns on rocks, but might be easily displaced by several other plants. Worth mentioning that it spawns on rocks that are landscape texture and not rocks that are randomly placed everywhere as objects lying on the planet's surface.

[Planewalker]

Osseus is one case where the filter isn't 100% accurate; it usually grows on rugged terrain, where conversely bacteria are most often not on rugged terrain.

The scanning map could in any case do with some TLC / QOL.