Eclipses!

[swjr-swis]

I am pretty sure eclipses have been a regularly happening 'thing' in stock KSP for a long time now...

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(screenshots made in KSP 1.1.2)

Edited January 26, 2018 by swjr-swis
i guess imgur albums are borked... again

[Clockwork13]

On 1/17/2018 at 10:10 AM, klesh said:

 

 

Yes.  I have several friends who own the game and wont play it because it looks so old.  I have several others that wont buy it because of same.

IMO it's a little sad that people won't purchase a game simply because it looks 'old'

[John FX]

10 hours ago, Clockwork13 said:

IMO it's a little sad that people won't purchase a game simply because it looks 'old'

Sad or not, it is true.

[Blaf]

On 1/28/2018 at 1:50 AM, Clockwork13 said:

IMO it's a little sad that people won't purchase a game simply because it looks 'old'

I wouldn't call it sad, it's just that different people have different tastes for their enjoyment. I fully understand that simplified graphics might spoil the fun for some people...

[NSEP]

As a person who uses the scatterer mod, eclipses are very annoying.

Its not rare to find yourself landing on a pitch black Mun.

[Reusables]

Found that the implementation is discussed here:

Do eclipses happen on the map view?

I read, and I think, that special-casing it could be feasible on rendering side. (Or it isn't? IDK, Ofc I'm not a professional programmer, I just wrote a few shader codes)

So the problem is the processing power needed for finding the eclipsing pair. Seems like it can be found by checking pairwise, as there's not so much celestial objects in ksp. And check angle between sun and the two objects if it's below certain angle for eclipse. But I understand that it could be bug-prone, hassle for devs to work and hard to test.

Edited January 30, 2018 by Reusables

[Capt. Hunt]

just realized that my earlier post had confused a new mun with a full mun.  My bad.  Frankly I'm amazed no one noticed that.

[Onigato]

On 1/30/2018 at 2:26 PM, Capt. Hunt said:

just realized that my earlier post had confused a new mun with a full mun.  My bad.  Frankly I'm amazed no one noticed that.

Munar eclipses happen exactly as often as Kerbol eclipses. Just no Blue Blood Super Mun eclipses, since it's in a perfectly circular orbit.