Atmospheres disappearing.

[pauldbk99]

Since a few days I have noticed that all the planet that previously had an atmosphere don't have one now, the atmospheric drag is still present, but all the visuals disappear when you orbit at about 300.000 meters above the surface. I will provide pictures as soon as I can. I haven't looked in the Alt+F12 menu yet. Verifying integrity of the game cache did not work and I am now doing a reinstall.

[Claw]

...but all the visuals disappear when you orbit at about 300.000 meters above the surface.

Well, I know the use of commas and periods can mean different things depending on where you are from. So if you mean 300 km, then you won't see atmospheric effects at Kerbin because you are well outside the atmosphere (which ends at ~70km).

This is definitely one of those things that would benefit from having a picture (as you pointed out). If you need help with that, you can check this thread: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/92230-Stock-Support-Bug-Reporting-Guide

I would also say that when things like this suddenly change (and you haven't done anything new), sometimes graphics driver or other software updates are to blame. So maybe also double check when those things last auto-updated and see if that matches up with around the time that you noticed the change in KSP.

Cheers,

~Claw

[pauldbk99]

Well, I know the use of commas and periods can mean different things depending on where you are from. So if you mean 300 km, then you won't see atmospheric effects at Kerbin because you are well outside the atmosphere (which ends at ~70km).

This is definitely one of those things that would benefit from having a picture (as you pointed out). If you need help with that, you can check this thread: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/92230-Stock-Support-Bug-Reporting-Guide

I would also say that when things like this suddenly change (and you haven't done anything new), sometimes graphics driver or other software updates are to blame. So maybe also double check when those things last auto-updated and see if that matches up with around the time that you noticed the change in KSP.

Cheers,

~Claw

I mean that the atmospheric visuals just fade away at 300 km. It then looks a bit like really old versions of kerbin (pre-0.16)

[pauldbk99]

Okay, here is a picture

[BudgetHedgehog]

Looks pretty normal for stock. Admittedly, it's been a while since I played without mods but I'm pretty sure there's no atmospheric visuals at all. Are you sure you're not just remembering having EnvironmentalVisualEnhancements installed which adds clouds to Kerbin?

Besides, that's the main menu and not terribly helpful - you say they fade away at 300km and I presume you mean while in orbit, could you post a screenshot of the visuals below 300km and a screenshot of them not there above 300km?

EDIT: Just fired up my stock install and yep, mines looks the same as yours, at least at the main menu.

Edited November 17, 2014 by ObsessedWithKSP

[WWEdeadman]

Does the stock game even have any atmospheric visuals? I literally never noticed whether you could tell if a body has an atmosphere, while you're not inside that atmosphere.

[vexx32]

I'm fairly sure that's pretty standard.

[pauldbk99]

Then it must've changed in one of the recent versions, because 0.23 looks like this

And in 0.25 it looks like this:

[pauldbk99]

Oh and the other screen looks like this:

The launchpad looks like this:

[pauldbk99]

This is what Kerbin looks like from 500 km up:

[pauldbk99]

Restoring a 2 days old computer back-up fixed it. Thanks for the support everybody!