[1.6.x] Distant Object Enhancement bis v1.9.1.1 (16 October 2018) - Free to a Good Home

[architeuthis]

This is normal behavior.

To see the skybox you should be on planet darkside or free of sun / shiny planet's surface.

IRC the dim skybox slider used to have at least some bearing on the magnitude of the effect. Or the on/off toggle for that matter. This is no longer the case; I'm curious why.

[MOARdV]

IRC the dim skybox slider used to have at least some bearing on the magnitude of the effect. Or the on/off toggle for that matter. This is no longer the case; I'm curious why.

The toggle and the slider should both affect behavior. You may need to switch to the space center and back to flight again for it to take effect. I will look at the code this week and see if there's something going on that I missed earlier.

[MalfunctionM1Ke]

MORAdV, please keep this mod forever updated

[architeuthis]

The toggle and the slider should both affect behavior. You may need to switch to the space center and back to flight again for it to take effect. I will look at the code this week and see if there's something going on that I missed earlier.

It definitely seems to be linked somehow to Scatterer. The effect goes away with it removed.

[MOARdV]

It definitely seems to be linked somehow to Scatterer. The effect goes away with it removed.

Hmm. I wonder if Scatterer is doing something with the skybox as well. I keep meaning to look at that mod, since I've done some atmospheric scattering shaders in the past.

[curiousepic]

Does DOE still render flares for vessels? I haven't been able to spot one recently in the appropriate conditions, with or without Distant Vessel Rendering on.

Edited May 10, 2015 by curiousepic

[MOARdV]

Does DOE still render flares for vessels? I haven't been able to spot one recently in the appropriate conditions, with or without Distant Vessel Rendering on.

Yes - I've seen them a number of times during test flights. There was a bug that caused certain flares to be rendered when they shouldn't that I fixed a while back (mostly affecting lighter / smaller objects). I may go back and revisit the flare renderer to make them brighter (and thus more visible).

[curiousepic]

What are the conditions that go into whether they're visible? I'll try to track down if it's some other mod messing them up.

[MOARdV]

What are the conditions that go into whether they're visible? I'll try to track down if it's some other mod messing them up.

Mass of the ship / debris (which is used as an approximation of size), angle from the viewer to the debris and angle from the debris towards the sun, distance.

[curiousepic]

So, I've discovered some odd behavior. I noticed I was getting unidentifiable (no tag on mouseover) flares in odd places. So I started testing.

From my KSS, a ~40ton station in LKO, I waited until sunrise, and then left it in a capsule towards the sun.

As I burned away from the KSS, it left physics range, and disappeared, but was identified on mouseover. Eventually, I noticed a flare way west of it, with no mouseover, slowly moving east, and eventually catching up to where the KSS's actual location is.

I went to the Space Center, then went back into the flight, and the flare was gone. I didn't notice a replacement coming to catch up to it before it went over the horizon.

Note this was with distant vessel rendering disabled.

[curiousepic]

Tried the same thing after a few orbits and other activities - this time the flare appeared shortly after it left render distance, but was offset by, oh, 1-5km prograde. So...

[MOARdV]

Tried the same thing after a few orbits and other activities - this time the flare appeared shortly after it left render distance, but was offset by, oh, 1-5km prograde. So...

Okay. It sounds like there's something messed up in the flare position code. I'll look at it when I can.

[curiousepic]

FYI I uninstalled Texture Replacer, Planetshine, and Persistent Rotation with no effect (still a hefty stack of other, non-graphics mods installed).

[Sky_walker]

Just popping in for a quick thank you for keeping this mod alive and running.

And an additional thank you for dropping the requirement for the toolbar plugin!

[Valerian]

I just saw that you moved the flares back from layer 10 to layer 0: why? what was the issue?

Maybe you can try layer 15 instead which might make more sense with the way DOE flares are positioned in space.

http://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/API:Layers

Edited May 14, 2015 by Valerian

[MOARdV]

I just saw that you moved the flares back from layer 10 to layer 0: why? what was the issue?

Maybe you can try layer 15 instead which might make more sense with the way DOE flares are positioned in space.

http://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/API:Layers

Thanks for that link - I've been trying to find something that identified the layers, and I haven't had any luck.

[ManuxKerb]

Hi

The log gets spammed with these:

EXC 12:10:14.446] FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'DistantObject, Version=1.5.4.21166, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies.

[EXC 12:10:14.559] FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'DistantObject, Version=1.5.4.21166, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies.

[EXC 12:10:14.671] FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'DistantObject, Version=1.5.4.21166, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies.

[EXC 12:10:14.759] FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'DistantObject, Version=1.5.4.21166, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies.

[EXC 12:10:14.856] FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'DistantObject, Version=1.5.4.21166, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies.

[EXC 12:10:14.947] FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'DistantObject, Version=1.5.4.21166, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies.

[EXC 12:10:15.029] FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'DistantObject, Version=1.5.4.21166, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies.

Serious?

[MOARdV]

I just saw that you moved the flares back from layer 10 to layer 0: why? what was the issue?

Maybe you can try layer 15 instead which might make more sense with the way DOE flares are positioned in space.

The issue I ran into is that I saw some phantom flares showing up (they moved like the flares did, but in the wrong place, like there was a scaling problem somewhere; they were also all white in the case of planet flares) I tried 15, and I still see them occasionally. There's something messed up in the flare placement code, and I don't know Unity well enough to solve it quickly, so it's been on the back burner.

Hi

The log gets spammed with these:

Serious?

1.5.4 is not the current version of Distant Object, and I have not seen that problem. Try updating to the current version and make sure it's installed correctly.

[ManuxKerb]

Hi

I now updated to 1.5.5 but the error still does appear.

[Gryphon]

Hi

I now updated to 1.5.5 but the error still does appear.

Are you sure it's installed in the correct place? A FileNotFoundException would indicate to me that KSP can't find some part of DOE, probably because it's not in the right place.

[jfjohnny5]

I'm noticing that dynamic sky dimming is causing the skybox to dim when it shouldn't. Specifically, if I point the camera toward the sun even though the sun is occluded by a planet, the skybox still dims. I can post an issue to Github; just not sure of your preferred method of reporting.

[MOARdV]

I'm noticing that dynamic sky dimming is causing the skybox to dim when it shouldn't. Specifically, if I point the camera toward the sun even though the sun is occluded by a planet, the skybox still dims. I can post an issue to Github; just not sure of your preferred method of reporting.

I prefer GitHub for bug submissions. However, stock KSP dims the skybox when the sun is visible. Please check to see if you see the problem without DOE installed / without skydimming enabled before submitting a bug.

[ZobrAA]

Are you sure it's installed in the correct place? A FileNotFoundException would indicate to me that KSP can't find some part of DOE, probably because it's not in the right place.

I can confirm, same FileNotFoundException spam with the latest 1.5.5 from GitHub...

[MOARdV]

I can confirm, same FileNotFoundException spam with the latest 1.5.5 from GitHub...

I am going to need a full log file - it doesn't happen for me here, so there's another piece to the puzzle.

[Sheppard]

I don't really like the sky dimming option and can't disable it. I have unchecked the box with dynamic sky dimming, but it will still dim the stars when looking towards the sun. Any advice on this?