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Missing suns

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Some may remember me looking like an idiot asking how to find a sun to kill.
I've realised that I can find suns, or more specifically their coronas, if I have reduced detail turned off.
The body of the sun is always transparent, it looks just like the star-field behind it. Is this a known problem? Or a problem with my graphics handling?
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I've not heard of such problems before. What platform are you playing on and which version of Oolite are you playing?
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Latest stable on linux.
It doesn't bother me all that much, just a curiosity.
I don't know if it's related but I also get stars in front of large objects like planets and space-stations.
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Nah, that's space dust, not stars... It gets everywhere... :?
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Post by Galileo »

tomythius wrote:
Latest stable on linux.
It doesn't bother me all that much, just a curiosity.
I don't know if it's related but I also get stars in front of large objects like planets and space-stations.
I get that too. It's not spacedust, I can see the background stars through the planet.
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I’ve had that happen exactly once - the first time I tried Lave.oxp.
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Ahruman wrote:
I’ve had that happen exactly once - the first time I tried Lave.oxp.
sure. blame the norwegian!
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Post by magamo »

tomythius: All this time, I thought it was just me. I've always had the same issue myself. In 1.62, all I'd get was coronae, in 1.65, I can see the sun correctly (though background stars will shine through it, and the planet) until I get close, when the surface of the star will disappear, and I'll just have the corona again. I highly suspect that this is a video driver issue.

I've got Xorg 6.8.2, and am running on a Matrox G550 (mga driver). You wouldn't happen to have a similar set up, would you?
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<spontaneous 2001 quote>

"Oh my god, it's full of stars!"

</spontaneous 2001 quote>

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