DOE Flare fix?

[Motokid600]

Im surprised to not see more people getting bugged over this. Surely most of us use the Distant Object Enhancement mod, yes? Its my favourite mod by far out of all of them. But as Squad would have it the best feature of the mod is mysteriously broken. The vessel flares. They dont appear or when they do there thousands of kilometers off and they seem to accelerate and decelerate ive noticed. The planet flares however work fine. Why post this here?

Because I would like to further the interest of those more adept then me into looking into what can be done to fix it. Honestly, lol. And to hope one day Squad makes this very simple, very immersible mod stock. Being able to see your debris, or other vessels zip by in orbit and even go into Kerbin's shadow just completes the space experience for me. I go out every night I can to watch satellites just after sunset and DOE is spot on.

So what can be done if anything? MOARdv has said to me and others that essentially everything looks as if it should work. Something Squad changed possibly in 1.0 has made an effect. What could it be? Ive tried on a fresh install with no mods and the bug persists. The new aero systems, the new heating systems.. what else? I dont think those major features would have an effect on such a thing, but im probably wrong. Any.. ideas?

[Kaa253]

Motokid600 thanks for starting this thread. I am seriously bugged over this!

All I can add is what i posted in the DOE thread on July 1 ... "I don't know if it is a clue that helps at all but it seems to me that the vessel name tags and therefore also the mouse ray vector, when you seek and find a vessel (at any range), are indeed pointing to the correct position where the vessel flare should be being drawn. Also, when the camera recedes from a close range vessel showing a flare in the wrong position that when the camera reaches a point sufficiently distant the flare converges on the correct position."

So to my install (Linux/OpenGL) it appears that the flare position calculation is from a camera position somehow offset (maybe ~100 km) from the true vessel / camera position. Planet positions may be appearing correct because the parallax baseline between the true camera position and the erroneous camera position is usually going to be fairly short compared to the planet's distance.

Edited July 22, 2015 by Kaa253

[Motokid600]

I'm on Linux opengl as well. I'm wondering if that has something to do with it. I may try a fresh ksp install on my other PC with Win32 and see if the bug persists in the same manner.

And then.. what about graphics settings? Particularly driver settings to force AA in opengl. Doubt it..

[MOARdV]

I can assure you it's not Linux. I'm on Win32 using the default DX9 mode in Unity, and vessel flares are in the wrong place. As Kaa253 said, it looks like the flare position is off due to a positional offset. I am mostly (not completely) sure none of the changes I made would have affected that, but it's possible that I've stared at the code too long and I simply don't see something big and obvious. My lack of familiarity with the nuances of Unity and KSP's use of Unity don't help matters in this respect (I'm a software engineer and shader guy, not a Unity coder).

[Kaa253]

I'm a software engineer and shader guy, not a Unity coder.

I'm a physicist so FORTRAN, MATLAB and Python some but Unity looks to me like it is written in Chatterer's Kerbal. I actually tried looking over the source last week. Still, if I can find time I will look at it again. Maybe I will spot something.

Edited July 23, 2015 by Kaa253

[MOARdV]

I'm a physicist so FORTRAN, MATLAB and Python some but Unity looks like it is written in Chatterer's Kerbal. I actually tried looking over the source last week. Still, if I can find time I will look at it again. Maybe I will spot something.

The good news is that I had a work test running late that I had to wait up for, and I was able to spend time looking over the code again. I think I finally spotted the position problem (the code was starting to look like Chatterer's Kerbal to me, too). Now I need to go back over the code that decides how large and how bright the flares are, so I can make them easier to see.