blackrack

In the version where this doesn't happen, do the EVE cloud shadows work at all or are they just invisible in the water? If ithey are invisible and you want to keep them like that take the "EmptyShader.shader" file from the old version and stick it in the new one, that should do it.

Someone reported this a few days ago, I have a fix in mind for it.

Weird, I guess we'll wait and see if this an isolated case or indeed there's a big problem somewhere. Btw reverting to "0.0216" will fix z-fighting but will get you back to the old problems of artifact soup in low orbit and visible ocean floor. Btw I'm using the 64-bit workaround too, all the time, and it doesn't seem to bring any additional problems, so by all means keep reporting if problems come up on 64bit. Edited: Just gave it a quick try, I get some fps drops but only when the time warp is "changing" from 50x down to 10x or 1x. When at a constant 50x or 10x it seems ro work fine. Is this what you're experiencing or are you getting drops all the time?

The only thing that seems to work sometimes is spamming the rebuild ocean in the UI or apply settings in the graphics settings until you get an artifact free ocean. Edited: I'm uploading a version which minimizes z-fighting on the fake ocean. I implemented a logarithmic buffer but for some reason the precision gains weren't as good as I expected, I switched to using a mesh and attempting to reuse the stock ocean mesh to display the fake ocean but ran into other issues. In the end I went back to the old dirty trick of moving the clip planes, I moved them only slightly this time and as far as I can tell z-fighting is minimized and there don't seem to be any other problems. Results with RSS/rescale mods may be different. This is only a temporary fix.

Am I the only one thinks this looks like the boat from dino crisis 2? http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/42188-dino-crisis-2-windows-screenshot-playing-as-regina-on-the-boat.jpg Thanks for the nostalgia trip.

Yep, I should change it to rescale mods. But yeah, I'll look into it when I can, I have other things in mind for now.

Not yet but it will be added, maybe even with moon light reflections if the performance isn't bad. For the z fighting I'm working on it. Is this using the latest version?

Thanks!

There are buttons in the atmosphere UI for turning off postprocessing and extinction.

Does anybody know how to get the value of how much the PQS is faded at any given moment? I'm talking about when it starts fading out to blend into the scaledSpace mesh. Edited: nevermind, I think I got it. Could you try disabling postprocessing/extinction/ocean and see if anything changes?

I have a suspicion it might be the foam that's causing these artifacts, I'll do some testing and report back. It's expected, I'm working on a logarithmic depth buffer that should fix this.

I always include the settings I consider best by my own taste, but as V8jester said everyone's definition of best is different so you have to experiment with the settings yourself.

Alright I'm uploading a new version which: -Adds a fake ocean in the postprocessing shader which is controlled via a variable in the settings file. It replaces the expensive ocean at an altitude of 15 km (tweakable), has the same sun reflection, and the transition between the two is mostly unnoticeable, should also replace the visible ocean floor at an altitude of 70km. -Adds settings to fade out foam and alpha by distance -Fixes the extinction barrier effect -Adds control for the exposure on the edge of the atmosphere separately from the exposure on the planet itself -Fixes sunglare visible in space and through planets As always, it's uploading a bit slow so check back in a while.

As the game is CPU-hungry, you can always try the mod as it primarily taxes your GPU. Most people with good GPUs seem to report a minimal impact on performance.

I would suggest trying without the galaxy mod first, and maybe trying without any other mods at all, just to be sure.

Are you using any other mods? Are there any symptoms?

rbray is cooking up something for the eclipse shadows (on terrains and planets). On my side I'm thinking of a way of making the eclipse shadows work correctly with the atmosphere, with the scattering and all. For now I'm working on a rings shader, I decided to shamelessly plug in the mie scattering code from proland... and well, here's what it looks like when seen from behind and sunlight is shining through it:

This has been known for a while, I'll add it in the OP. No workaround yet. Well I don't know about applying these effects to terrain or clouds but, I'm thinking of adding Jool as a second light source for Laythe's skies and ocean's reflections, should look quite good but the lighting on terrain and on the scaled space mesh would have to match or it'll look off.

IRL how much light would the dark side of Laythe receive from Jool? What would it look like from orbit?

Where's the f-14?

I meant with the waves.

True, but it makes ships break way easily.

There shouldn't be any lag time, that's just the time it takes it to float to the surface with it's buoyancy.

I see, but it still seems that individual parts will be destroyed even plopping in the water at 3m/s.

Not really no, working on that. Plus sometimes you load a ship and it loads higher than where the waves are then falls down 2 meters and breaks into pieces.