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"Buggy" sector graphics

Jul 08, 2004 Grzywacz link
Hi.
I've made some screenshots of sectors where I found someting that doesn't look right.

[edit: screenshots removed]

1) Azek L4, I think that sun should be visible through the rings
2) Mysterious dots on the sun in Dau K5. They look like roids, but you can't get near them
3) In Dau I8 the planet has too bright edge, when zoomed look even worse.
It's nothing serious, only things that seem weird to me. ;)
Jul 08, 2004 roguelazer link
I think the dots are supposed to represent a solar eclipse.
Jul 09, 2004 RelayeR link
I went for a ride over to Dau to check these out...

2) k5 is 2 small planets, hence, they are in the skybox and will not get bigger or closer. They are also represented on the sector map.

3) i8 looks like the atmosphere and the planet's edge do not gel right. An arguement can be made that this is a trick of the light as it looks a little like the mirages you see when you are at a very low angle to a hot road on a sunny day.

1) I did not get to Azek i4 but, from your screen shots, I think the sun should show through the rings also.
Jul 09, 2004 a1k0n link
Re: 1, if you change your background detail to anything and back again (thus forcing it to rerender the background) the sun will show through the rings. I think Ray might have fixed this for the next release but I'm not sure.
Jul 09, 2004 raybondo link
Yeah. the planet ring was rendering to the zbuffer which occluded the sun if it gets rendered after the ring.
Jul 09, 2004 danielky link
btw a1k0n, when's the next release gonna be? Will you tell us if the guild stuff will be part of it?
Jul 17, 2004 sector0 link
http://kolos.math.uni.lodz.pl/~grzywacz/planet2.jpg
i dont really see what is the problem with that picture unless your trying to say the planet is closer.
Aug 06, 2004 Grzywacz link
Found two more things:
http://kolos.math.uni.lodz.pl/~grzywacz/dump0005.jpg
http://kolos.math.uni.lodz.pl/~grzywacz/dump0006.jpg
http://kolos.math.uni.lodz.pl/~grzywacz/dump0007.jpg

You can get sectors from screenshots.
Aug 06, 2004 mr_spuck link
wow ... number 1 (dump0005.jpg) looks like derelict cap ship :)