Nhawks17 Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 I like it! It really doesn't look like much of a big difference that it would effect anything (at least from your pictures). I really like that it fixes the eclipse shadow on clouds. When I was testing the Laythe-Jool interaction yesterday I noticed the eclipse looked really weird given it was making the planet dark but the bright white clouds were still there. I'm in favor of it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starwaster Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 (edited) 5 hours ago, blackrack said: Alright, another advantage I have found to this is that eclipses will also work on clouds this way, at least from an orbital viewpoint: Nuh uh! Nowai!!! Whut sorcery is this??? Ooooooo how does it interact with the god rays? Someone needs to get a shot of an eclipse on the horizon (as in during sunrise). That would look awesome Edited March 8, 2016 by Starwaster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elthy Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 Those strange terminators where allways the biggest flaw of scatterer for me. Great you managed to fix them, now it looks very good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sashan Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 7 hours ago, blackrack said: In a way this is wrong as it treats the clouds as if they were at the ground level, but I find the end results looks pleasing and more homegeneous. I think that you can actually assume clouds to be at the ground level - at least in RSS. They are quite low actually IRL - most of the atmo is above them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackrack Posted March 8, 2016 Author Share Posted March 8, 2016 Just now, sashan said: I think that you can actually assume clouds to be at the ground level - at least in RSS. They are quite low actually IRL - most of the atmo is above them. While it's true that they are rather low altitude-wise, I would think the thickest part of the atmosphere is beneath them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbray89 Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 7 hours ago, blackrack said: Have you checked your memory usage in the windows task manager when this happens? You're the second person to report this and the guy before didn't give enough info to know what's going on. So yeah, poke around more, play with the settings, play with the features, play with your driver, check the debug log etc etc until you find something that affects it at all because at the moment I have no idea what this is. Also try forcing dx11 or opengl. Same as above, try to find some sort of clue and do a more detailed report. The shadows don't disappear either, they're there, but subtler, can mostly be seen to the left, in the brightest area: In a way this is wrong as it treats the clouds as if they were at the ground level, but I find the end results looks pleasing and more homegeneous. Thoughts on this? @Proot @Nhawks17 @pingopete Also, if I go through with this, the transition from PQS to scaledSpace may be even more problematic, may have to work something out with @rbray89 Looks lovely! One thing I could do is lower the intensity of cloud shadows near the terminator. Another thing we could talk about would be to write a value to alpha in the screen buffer to control how much the scatterer overlays blend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sashan Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 3 minutes ago, blackrack said: While it's true that they are rather low altitude-wise, I would think the thickest part of the atmosphere is beneath them. Okay, I'll make a quick check of that. At which altitude are RSS clouds at? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sashan Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 (edited) 1 hour ago, blackrack said: hile it's true that they are rather low altitude-wise, I would think the thickest part of the atmosphere is beneath them. Well, I quickly did this graph. Half of the atmosphere mass-wise is below 5 km Edited March 8, 2016 by sashan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackrack Posted March 8, 2016 Author Share Posted March 8, 2016 (edited) 29 minutes ago, sashan said: Well, I quickly did this graph. Half of the atmosphere mass-wise is below 5 km It seems most of the clouds are below 5 km though, so you were right 1 hour ago, rbray89 said: Looks lovely! One thing I could do is lower the intensity of cloud shadows near the terminator. Another thing we could talk about would be to write a value to alpha in the screen buffer to control how much the scatterer overlays blend. Yeah, that would be cool. One quick question though, I noticed that your clouds are composed of the "texture" layer mapped onto a sphere that you see from orbit and the particle-like volumes that you see from the ground or when flying through the cloud layer. Is there a reason you switch the sphere layer between local space and scaled space and not keep it in scaled space all the time? I would've thought it's so craft can fly through it but you seem to "create a hole" in that layer when the craft get through it. Edited March 8, 2016 by blackrack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbray89 Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 45 minutes ago, blackrack said: Is there a reason you switch the sphere layer between local space and scaled space and not keep it in scaled space all the time? I would've thought it's so craft can fly through it but you seem to "create a hole" in that layer when the craft get through it. Otherwise you'd get a situation where clouds are behind terrain all the time when looking down at the body. It'd be fine when looking from ground to sky though, aside from when the cloud layer should go through mountains. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackrack Posted March 8, 2016 Author Share Posted March 8, 2016 Just now, rbray89 said: Otherwise you'd get a situation where clouds are behind terrain all the time when looking down at the body. It'd be fine when looking from ground to sky though, aside from when the cloud layer should go through mountains. Yeah, that went right over my head, I've been thinking about this too much today . I'm going to have to move my orbital shader into local space and fade it in and then switch to scaledspace I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arditan427 Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 13 hours ago, blackrack said: You're the second person to report this and the guy before didn't give enough info to know what's going on. So yeah, poke around more, play with the settings, play with the features, play with your driver, check the debug log etc etc until you find something that affects it at all because at the moment I have no idea what this is. Also try forcing dx11 or opengl. I'm not really sure what I would be looking for though, should I post my output log or something like that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
selfish_meme Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 On 6 March 2016 at 9:05 PM, blackrack said: Does anybody else feel the stock re-entry/mach effects are big performance hogs? Yes, plus they come in ridiculously early, I actually adjusted them to come in much later, over Mach 4, so now if I have flames something is going to blow up soon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theonegalen Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 15 hours ago, blackrack said: Have you checked your memory usage in the windows task manager when this happens? Yes, the KSP memory usage at the time was ~3,200,000b. I played again, and even though I got up to ~3,550,000b, I didn't have the same problem. Both times, I still had at least a GB of my RAM free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azimech Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 (edited) 9 hours ago, selfish_meme said: Yes, plus they come in ridiculously early, I actually adjusted them to come in much later, over Mach 4, so now if I have flames something is going to blow up soon Oh I'd like to know how you did that. No, forum editor. Don't just merge posts like that. At least put a divider in between! Interesting loop ... loop ... loop ... loop. Maybe because of the ~20 units having a party at the KSC. Interface still works though. Don't know what will happen when I switch to simulation yet. Edited March 9, 2016 by Azimech Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
selfish_meme Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 (edited) 5 minutes ago, Azimech said: Oh I'd like to know how you did that. aeroFXVelocityExponent = 3.5 aeroFXDensityExponent1 = 0.5 In physics.cfg, I think I chose 4.0 and 1.0 instead, I can't check ATM Edited March 9, 2016 by selfish_meme Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azimech Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 Just now, selfish_meme said: aeroFXVelocityExponent = 3.5 aeroFXDensityExponent1 = 0.5 In physics.cfg, I think I chose 4.0 and 1.0 instead Thank you very much! I see a lot of possibilities here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackrack Posted March 9, 2016 Author Share Posted March 9, 2016 1 hour ago, Azimech said: Interesting loop ... loop ... loop ... loop. Maybe because of the ~20 units having a party at the KSC. Interface still works though. Don't know what will happen when I switch to simulation yet. Your game is behaving like it's switching between fullscreen and windowed mode permanently, try a different video mode or switch to windowed, perhaps try borderless fullscreen? 9 hours ago, theonegalen said: Yes, the KSP memory usage at the time was ~3,200,000b. I played again, and even though I got up to ~3,550,000b, I didn't have the same problem. Both times, I still had at least a GB of my RAM free. If you're not using the 64bit workaround you've reached the limit of how much memory 32-bit KSP can use. It doesn't matter how much RAM you have free. 10 hours ago, Arditan427 said: I'm not really sure what I would be looking for though, should I post my output log or something like that? Post the log but I doubt there will be anything in it. Really just play with the settings and see if anything affects it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azimech Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 2 hours ago, blackrack said: Your game is behaving like it's switching between fullscreen and windowed mode permanently, try a different video mode or switch to windowed, perhaps try borderless fullscreen? I went to the SPH, when I went back to KSC scene it was gone. Don't consider it a problem but thanks for the tip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pingopete Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 Just a quick question: eclipseCasters { Item = Moon } For this is the item the CB name or the transform name? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackrack Posted March 9, 2016 Author Share Posted March 9, 2016 23 minutes ago, pingopete said: Just a quick question: For this is the item the CB name or the transform name? It doesn't handle differing CB/transform names so it's CB name. I thought the differing names were only needed for Kerbin/Earth? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pingopete Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 1 minute ago, blackrack said: It doesn't handle differing CB/transform names so it's CB name. I thought the differing names were only needed for Kerbin/Earth? Ah right ok. Yeah just trying out the latest release, really nice to see even more frames back in opengl, among other fixes One big issue I noticed though is there's no ocean shader what so ever in RSS PQS? Fine in SS but nothing not even at higher levels in PQS? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackrack Posted March 9, 2016 Author Share Posted March 9, 2016 10 minutes ago, pingopete said: Ah right ok. Yeah just trying out the latest release, really nice to see even more frames back in opengl, among other fixes One big issue I noticed though is there's no ocean shader what so ever in RSS PQS? Fine in SS but nothing not even at higher levels in PQS? There's a new variable in the config points "_GlobalOceanAlpha" if you're using an older config it's value will be 0 at all config points Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pingopete Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 20 minutes ago, blackrack said: There's a new variable in the config points "_GlobalOceanAlpha" if you're using an older config it's value will be 0 at all config points Ahh I see thank you! Man the fading extinction looks so sweet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackrack Posted March 9, 2016 Author Share Posted March 9, 2016 1 minute ago, pingopete said: Ahh I see thank you! Man the fading extinction looks so sweet! Wait, what fading extinction? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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