Notorious_BJG

I understand. Thank you for explaining this. It is really awesome to learn about all of this. TIL about umbras and penumbras. For those interested, I did some solar physics problems to back up what rbray89 said... And I only got Kerbin done in about 2 hours. It was truly a pain in the rear. Essentially Kerbin has a Penumbra of 1.832° starting at the moon (12,000km away) and an umbra of 2.046° starting at a focal point 1,605km away from the planet's surface. The ratio of the umbra shadow to the perumbra shadow on the planet is about 1:20. The perumbra is a subtle gradient as a shadow, but is noticeable in shadows in real siruations. With Duna, whose moon is 1/4 of the distance Mun is from Kerbin, and orbits almost twice as far from the Sun, the shadow casted will be sharper, with shallower angles than Kerbin's shadow. Therefore the shadow is bigger (relative to Ike's radius), and the perumbra is smaller (in this case hardly noticeable). P.S. Physics can be very hard.

So you are saying that Ike is close enough to Duna that the Umbra is touching it, therefore making a hard shadow? Or are you saying that because the Mun is far enough from Kerbin, that the Penumbra is displayed on the planet (instead of the umbra), which is why it is more subtle? Or did I just sum up both situations? P.S. Thank you for the timely update!!

Thank you for letting me know this, I look forward to the fixes in the future. I apologize if this added to a plethora of posts about this. Apparently I didn't look back very far in the thread.

@rbray89 Here is an album of photos regarding an 2 issues I've run into. I do not have crash logs to submit to you, but I have two issues with a basic idea of what is wrong. First off, the planet textures seem to disappear or lose all lighting when being viewed from the spacecraft. I cannot figure out why this is. I am working on isolating the problem to ensure that it isn't another mod conflicting somehow. The other issue is an odd one from the menu after leaving the space center. It looks as if the cloud texture radius (size maybe) does not resize at the menu. http://imgur.com/a/xUvJc

Oh my goodness. That is beautiful, sDaZe. What mods are you using? And is this in 1.1? I must recreate this.