Icy Traslucent! Features or Bug?

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Elite Dangerous Odyssey (patch 8): Icy Shard Traslucent. Bug or early/unfineshed feature?

On the planet AO RUN 4 D A we have found a strange feature regarding the icy planet and rocks/fumaroles on the surface. All surfaces not exposed to starlight in the system created a translucence through the rocks with obvious depth effect.

The effect can be seen by simply creating a shadow with your sun and terrain, ship, srv or cmdr and totally dynamic with the movement of the light source (see the video posted). In 4 other planets with the same ice features we did not find this phenomenon. Feature not implemented correctly? Feature not fully integrated in game with the current planetary procedural technique? Or a simple bug?

Others images with traslucent effect.

https://preview.redd.it/xvtgwicxle181.png?width=2560&format=png&auto=webp&s=ffd0265c7b6130525c10264ef8d78c2bc8005aa3

https://preview.redd.it/fgaal4uzle181.png?width=2560&format=png&auto=webp&s=ca1e7551b9a63efad4fbb874b95c4f98f8982e75

https://preview.redd.it/4pyh9v3hme181.png?width=2560&format=png&auto=webp&s=71c0bfc11b5f27806673376f5ae5251804d129ee

https://preview.redd.it/frwu2p3hme181.png?width=2560&format=png&auto=webp&s=b7e7d33c937b8bb085a4b8d5dd75a940a7d5a8fa

https://preview.redd.it/v6gvqgwmme181.png?width=2560&format=png&auto=webp&s=89b1596336018ae17d7d765ccdeb701c87ece428

https://preview.redd.it/q1z4w6wmme181.png?width=2560&format=png&auto=webp&s=c4cc545c4b96643f4424c1243f556fea7691e036

https://preview.redd.it/cq1c0f1tme181.png?width=2560&format=png&auto=webp&s=d563bc69d6528bbea157a58e2c442fced83e53c2

What I would like to understand is if this feature is poorly implemented or has serious bugs. The area exposed to any light source makes the standard ice texture appear.

Do you have any opinions on the quality and functionality of this feature?

Concept Art

Old texture demo 2018(?)

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/r0mgp2/icy_traslucent_features_or_bug/

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