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Hi

When running 1.77.1 I see the planetary atmostphere effect.

When I run 1.79 trunk the planetary atmostphere effect is gone. However the new sun effect is visible.

My linux distro is Fedora 18, kernel 3.11.4-101.fc18.x86_64. The graphics card is a GeForce GTX460. The nvidia drivers are 319.60.

The Oolite version is 1.79.0.5434-131213-0d66f33

There are no rendering errors reported in the oolite log.

Does anyone else running linux have this problem?

Thanks

Hi nemo147, and welcome aboard. I 'think' I see (or do not see) the same thing in Windows (1.79.0.5441-131215-282af07).
It's odd though - in certain positions, it flicks on, then disappears again with a tiny movement/change of angle.

Cody wrote:

Hi nemo147, and welcome aboard. I 'think' I see (or do not see) the same thing in Windows (1.79.0.5441-131215-282af07).
It's odd though - in certain positions, it flicks on, then disappears again with a tiny movement/change of angle.

Oh, is that what that is. I thought I was seeing things... I'll figure something out.

Thanks guys.

Not sure if I've described it properly. There may be two things here, atmostphere 'haze' and planet lighting.

The 'missing' effect is the atmostphere 'haze', which in my installation of 1.77.1 appears as a thin blue/white border around a planet, when looking at its edge. I think this was introduced in 1.77? (I've not used versions prior to 1.76).

>It's odd though - in certain positions, it flicks on, then disappears again with a tiny movement/change of angle.
>Oh, is that what that is. I thought I was seeing things... I'll figure something out.

In the current 1.79 the strength of illumination on the lit part of a planetary sphere indeed seems to flick between intensity levels depending on the angle of view. A very small change in ship position can cause a sudden jump in the lighting.

Thanks for the welcome, and thanks for your help.

My uneducated guess is that the two don't mesh together

On my computer, the sun effect colors pretty much anything. Including the Telescope model preview.

nemo147 wrote:

Not sure if I've described it properly.

Perfectly described, and it is the atmosphere haze - well spotted, and thanks.