Eve Fluid bug

[mcirish3]

I am currently running so test to figure out sun rise and day length for KSP planets with Atmosphere so technically I have a Modded install (mechjeb for info and hyperedit for easy placement of ships on various planets.

However I think this bug is germain to stock and not due to mods.  If you feel otherwise please feel free to say so.

In any case it is a small bug that may infact be related to general fluid (water on kerbin and laythe and rocket fuel on eve)  transparency.  It would seem that sunlight shines directly through these fluids as if they are 100% transparent.  This means that sunrise is detected, by solar panels, in deep oceans, many minutes before actual sunrise.  if you need screenshots (I forgot to take them) I will get them for you, if you need logs I will try and get that too.   I just was not sure if this was a known issue and if it is not a know issue it seems so easy to replicate by a dev that screenshots and logs would seem unnecessary.
 
well that is all I have,

mcirish3

P.S. I called it the Eve flud bug because that is where it first became apparent to me what was going on.

[sal_vager]

Hi mcirish3, solar panel occlusion is calculated based on planet size, the terrain mesh and water are not a factor.

So you can get sunlight through mountains in some places.

[mcirish3]

I was aware of the Mountain thing.  I was unaware of the water non occlusion thing.  Nathankell enlightened me about it via PM, working as designed in short.  In any case you can close the thread if you like.