Glyph

Glyphs are used when operating a portal.

Summary[]

Glyphs are symbols on a portal's wheel. They are also referenced in-game in Menu → 'Guide' tab, and they can be scanned from screenshots with the Camera Button.

An Atlas Rises portal has 16 inscribed symbols on the outer ring. When dialing, this outer ring rotates until the dialed symbol is aligned with the top position, at which point the ring pauses and the same glyph displays on the game HUD.

Possible addresses[]

With 16 symbols to choose from and a 12-symbol address, the Portal network since Atlas Rises has

16^12 = 281,474,976,710,656 possible addresses (281 trillion)

However, not all points in space represented by these addresses have Portals; indeed, there are sufficiently few valid coordinate sets that randomly dialing the portal results in a roughly 1 in 10 chance of working.

All Portals since Atlas Rises use a Portal Terminal to enter addresses.

Finding glyphs[]

You can mainly find them by asking travellers where they came from. This will lead you to a Traveller Grave in the system that then can be searched to get a new glyph. It is possible to find a grave without asking, but they are rare and easily missed.

Using Analysis Visor shows them as Unknown Grave indicated with icon.

Players will also learn all 16 glyphs during the Artemis Path mission, The Purge, without discovering Unknown Graves. After beginning the mission, a player will receive one glyph for every time they warp new to a system, accompanied by a strange message.

Table of correspondence for Glyphs:[]

Glyph	1 / 16	2 / 16	3 / 16	4 / 16	5 / 16	6 / 16	7 / 16	8 / 16	9 / 16	10 / 16	11 / 16	12 / 16	13 / 16	14 / 16	15 / 16	16 / 16
Decimal	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
Hexa- decimal	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	A	B	C	D	E	F
White
Blue	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	A	B	C	D	E	F
Legacy name ^[1]	sunset	bird	face	diplo	eclipse	balloon	boat	bug	dragonfly	galaxy	voxel	fish	tent	rocket	tree	atlas
Void Egg name^[2]	Star Over Water	Hunter	Reflection	Ancient Giant	Obscured Companion	Ascending Orb	Sailor	Lowly Insect		Spiral of Reality	Anomaly	Ocean King		Vessel To Beyond

Wiki use[]

To display a 12-symbol portal address on the wiki, this sample format can be used. Simply use the glyph IDs in the proper order.

Use this phrase:

{{Gl|40ECF8FFEFFF}}

To produce this visual:

40ECF8FFEFFF

To determine the hex value for a specific set of glyphs, use the translator at nmsportals.

Glyph X[]

Glyph X

Among the resources of the game an image was found with "Glyph X". ^[3]. This texture is not used anywhere in the game, and the purpose of this asset is unknown.