Oolite Bulletins

cim wrote: ↑Tue Jan 17, 2017 9:40 pm

2^32 isn't particularly relevant

But it is at that exact distance the planet Completely vanishes, so it is relevant as a hint.

I tested so many things so i cant remember how this applies to the github source with pull request 153 applied.

Check cim's last response on PR#153 on github, it could contain info related to the reason for your problem and also gives a possible workaround method (could be tricky to implement without core changes but you never know till you give it a try): https://github.com/OoliteProject/oolite/pull/153 Tha...

But, wouldn't discard Tell it to render nothing ? as in being totally transparent thus behaving like expected. https://www.opengl.org/sdk/docs/tutorials/ClockworkCoders/discard.php Yup, that was the intention. As opposed to the git committed version of the shader, which is "rendering" tot...

The atmosphere effect seems to be behaving correctly, i.e. becomes transparent (newOpacity=0.0) a bit before the "central lighting" appears. If I understood correctly, you scaled the planets way more than they are in the game. The shader uses the collisionRadius uniform (which should be t...

So it is the shaders!. Does this complicate matters ?. Although I don't understand why is it happening to you, you can try this change in the oolite-default-atmosphere.fragment file: instead of last lines reading } gl_FragColor = vec4(totalColor, newOpacity); } try } else { discard; } gl_FragColor ...

Could it be the new atmosphere shader? Try this: In the 1.85 folder, go to Resources/Shaders and rename the file oolite-default-atmosphere.fragment to something else. This will force a fall-back to the previous (1.84) style of atmosphere rendering. Then repeat the test. Do planets still disappear a...

still the same. effects cut of rendering at about 2.6... Se video.
Oh btw forgot to record, planets do cut off at 10 MKm. I can make a new video of it if you like.

Edit, sry its actually less, at about 4.4 MKm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRmVheh9erk

another_commander wrote: ↑Fri Jan 13, 2017 1:36 pm

What is the exact version string of the nightly you use to test 1.85?

I downloaded the src via github applied pull request 153, then make debug = 0, like in the thread that was originally in the screenshots thread.
video.

If i write Oolite.versionString it just writes 1.85

and the planets/sun drawdistance be that of 1.84 instead of the currently 10 million KM. Not sure what the actual problem might be here, but there is no change between 1,84 and 1,85 on how draw distances are handled. 1.84 also has a 10MKm MAX_CLEAR_DEPTH set. in 1.84:Effects cut of rendering at abo...

Could drawdistance be the same for Effects as for Planets ? and the planets/sun drawdistance be that of 1.84 instead of the currently 10 million KM. I cannot it seems be able to build it myself to test. Currently the effects fall for the about 2.8 KM s draw distance for standard objects. IMO effects...

OK, thanks for testing. Note that the current 1.85 nightlies do not have PR #153 applied and one of the reasons is that we did not have enough information about what happens at extreme distances. If the 10Mkm disappearance gets sorted out and it does look better, then we could consider bringing #15...

Those 'quivering blotches' on planets at distance was something I encountered when testing the rescaling experiment. I don't have a fix other than to restrict the distances. @Redspear (and @Frame, if you are building from source): Can you please try to check if the patch from github Pull Request 15...

Well, this evovled into creating the entire solar system (at scale. 1 AU is 1 AU. Apart from the sun and the main planet, diameters of everything else is to scale), it can work on its own however and is not dependant on any solar systems being there. At present i got a working FSD drive that i name...

Still tinkering. Freespace inspired HUD. Tinkering with FOV. The small model is yellow shaded and is moving like the target. http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn180/Frame_2/th_2016-11-29%202_zpsh5tuuuh7.png Frame, that looks great! :) OK, so the angle's a little off but that's not important for my...

Still tinkering. Freespace inspired HUD. Tinkering with FOV. The small model is yellow shaded and is moving like the target. The altitude indicator on your HUD has me bemused. Don't remember seeing a main station that close to a planet. Some logical explanation, I wouldn't wonder? That's no planet ...