Oolite Bulletins

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?

I've not heard of such problems before. What platform are you playing on and which version of Oolite are you playing?

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.

Nah, that's space dust, not stars... It gets everywhere...

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.

I’ve had that happen exactly once - the first time I tried Lave.oxp.

Ahruman wrote:

I’ve had that happen exactly once - the first time I tried Lave.oxp.

sure. blame the norwegian!

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

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