Ships in Shipyards are way too dark in 1.70.

julyy · Post by **julyy** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 3:44 am

Maybe it's how the station is located against the sun (?)

... but I stopped by in 5 systems now in a row, where it is impossible to see the ships in the shipyard on a station. They are covered in darkness. Only highlighted from time to time.

Post by **another_commander** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 9:45 am

This must be a result of having full shader effects on. Try it with shader effects set to simple and it should be ok. Having said that, maybe on the shipyard screen only, there should be no lighting applied to ships even with the full shader effects.

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 10:47 am

Maybe it's just the light position & direction that need tweaking? the lights on the start screen seems to shine in from the left of the model and on the shipyard it seems to shine in from the right, could it be changed so the light is locked to the camera on these screens and inherits the cameras position & direction?

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 11:51 am

It is a shader-related issue, caused by a problem in the game. It also occurs on the opening demo. This has to do with the “light 0 fix” that still needs implementing.

Applying no lighting to the ships on the shipyard screen would require all shaders to have a special case, which is not a reasonable approach. The proper thing to do is fix the lighting model in the game.