White/Transparent atmospheres

[Entropian]

Well, it appeared again.  In RSS, using Scatterer with either RVE64k or RSSVE in KSP 1.9.1, all planets with an atmosphere - except Earth - have their atmosphere turned white/transparent. 

Photos:

Log.

Pinging @R-T-B and @blackrack.

Edited September 7, 2020 by Entropian
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[R-T-B]

On 9/7/2020 at 11:33 AM, Entropian said:

Well, it appeared again.  In RSS, using Scatterer with either RVE64k or RSSVE in KSP 1.9.1, all planets with an atmosphere - except Earth - have their atmosphere turned white/transparent. 

Photos:

Log.

Pinging @R-T-B and @blackrack.

Are you running Kopernicus in any form?

If so, it's possible it's the culprit.  There may be a bug in the stock release that only manifests itself in extremely strange edge cases (still not sure what exactly causes it to appear, but I think I know the origin of the bug).

At any rate, if it's what I think, bleeding edge Kopernicus should have it fixed.  Could you kindly test with that build instead of stable?  Right now, it's in a pretty stable state, and should not bite (it will probably be a stable patch in just a few days, actually):

 

[Entropian]

8 hours ago, R-T-B said:

Could you kindly test with that build instead of stable?

After testing the bleeding edge, it still has the problem.  Log file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/221v8oprmj60sm0/Player.log?dl=1

[R-T-B]

Hmmm...   I appreciate the log.  I think the bug is somewhere in EVE, from that log.  What EVE version are you using?  Is it mine or blackracks?

Regardless of which one, I guess the first thing to try would be to try the other.  I'd just like to know if my build is broke or someone else's build, I suppose.

Edited September 9, 2020 by R-T-B

[Entropian]

17 minutes ago, R-T-B said:

What EVE version are you using?

Yours.  I'm testing the other one now.

EDIT: Tested blackrack's one.  It has the same problem.  Log: https://www.dropbox.com/s/221v8oprmj60sm0/Player.log?dl=1

Edited September 9, 2020 by Entropian

[R-T-B]

7 hours ago, Entropian said:

Yours.  I'm testing the other one now.

EDIT: Tested blackrack's one.  It has the same problem.  Log: https://www.dropbox.com/s/221v8oprmj60sm0/Player.log?dl=1

Huh.  Can I get your graphics card in your system?  And I guess OS if it isn't plain old windows?

 

This is weird and I've seen it before, but I've yet to track down a trend and it seems completely random.  I wish I knew how to help you, but right now all I can really do is gather evidence and hope something "clicks."  Here's hoping.  And regardless, thank you for the reports.  If more people reported this in good detail like you are doing I'm confident it'd be fixed by now.

Edited September 9, 2020 by R-T-B

[Entropian]

Plain ol' Windows 10.  I have a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070.  Thanks.

[R-T-B]

4 hours ago, Entropian said:

Plain ol' Windows 10.  I have a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070.  Thanks.

Sadly, that's about as normal as it gets, lol.

I was hoping to find a trend of something unusual but so far everyone seems to be running pretty run of the mill stuff, you included.  My mind is boggled.  Will think on this and update you if I come up with anything.

[R-T-B]

Some thoughts on this issue:

It may be driver related.  On that note, please try updating your GPU drivers to the latest "game ready" driver (you can try the studio ones too but they are technically a bit slower) available here:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/drivers/

Also, in the event that does not work (likely), can you post a screenshot of how you have eve installed in your gamedata folder?  Also, what config are you using?  I'm assuming just whatever comes with RSS, correct?

Edited September 11, 2020 by R-T-B

[Entropian]

Installed the latest drivers.  Issue still appears.  New log: https://www.dropbox.com/s/221v8oprmj60sm0/Player.log?dl=1

I use RSSVE, and yes, whatever comes with it.  I may have discovered a lead in the scatterer configs.  Whenever I close KSP, it spams the upper right of the screen with this "Planetary texture things not found for -whatever planet with an atmosphere-."  You might have seen it in the logs.  When I looked at the scatterer configs, each one is for a planet that shows the issue, except Earth of course.  Perhaps there's something in scatterer?

[OhioBob]

This looks to be the problem to me.  It can't find the textures.

Quote

[PlanetariumCamera]: Focus: Venus
(Filename: C:\buildslave\unity\build\Runtime/Export/Debug/Debug.bindings.h Line: 35)
[Scatterer][Debug]  Atmosphere config found for: Venus
(Filename: C:\buildslave\unity\build\Runtime/Export/Debug/Debug.bindings.h Line: 35)
[Scatterer][Debug]  no inscatter.raw or inscatter.half file found for Venus
(Filename: C:\buildslave\unity\build\Runtime/Export/Debug/Debug.bindings.h Line: 35)
[Scatterer][Debug]  no transmittance.raw or transmittance.half file found for Venus
(Filename: C:\buildslave\unity\build\Runtime/Export/Debug/Debug.bindings.h Line: 35)
[Scatterer][Debug]  no irradiance.raw or irradiance.half file found for Venus

(edit)

Then maybe not.  It seems that error only occurs for Venus and not the other planets.

58 minutes ago, Entropian said:

I use RSSVE, and yes, whatever comes with it.

There is no references to RSSVE in the logs  All the logs refer to RVE.

It would be helpful if you could link us directly to the download page of whatever mod you are using so we can be sure we're looking at the correct version.

Edited September 11, 2020 by OhioBob

[Entropian]

1 hour ago, OhioBob said:

It would be helpful if you could link us directly to the download page of whatever mod you are using so we can be sure we're looking at the correct version.

Sure thing.  I thought the mod was called RSSVE, but I see that the file is called RVE...  Anyway, here's the link: https://github.com/KSP-RO/RSSVE/releases/tag/1.8.1-RC1

[R-T-B]

Yeah, I see that spam in the logs but as bob notes it's for Venus and nothing else, which doesn't add up.

So weird.  Still investigating, but so far have come up blank.  Thank you for trying the different drivers even if it was futile.  Gotta rule out the basics.

[Entropian]

No problem, if you need me to do anything, just let me know.

[OhioBob]

3 hours ago, Entropian said:

Sure thing.  I thought the mod was called RSSVE, but I see that the file is called RVE...  Anyway, here's the link: https://github.com/KSP-RO/RSSVE/releases/tag/1.8.1-RC1

Something's not making sense here, because the mod you link to is called RSSVE, but everything in the log references RVE.  Are you sure what you linked to is what you have installed?  Maybe you should delete and reinstall.

Also seeing your ModuleManager.ConfigCache would be helpful.

Edited September 11, 2020 by OhioBob

[Entropian]

Ok, I think I figured it out.  I accidentally installed RVE64k instead of RSSVE.   When I load it with RSSVE, it works.  RVE64k must be doing something to the textures on other planets...  Anyway, thanks to both of you for helping me out.

[R-T-B]

No prob.  I feel like a few of our reports may be due to this, so thanks for a potential cause report!