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R-T-B / Kopernicus

Kopernicus is a mod for Kerbal Space Program which allows users to replace the planetary system used by the game.
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Gas giants seem desaturated, pale. #18

Closed WhirligigGirl closed 3 years ago

WhirligigGirl commented 3 years ago

Gas giants in Whirligig World seem pale, as if they've got an extra layer of white in them. My guess is they're lacking the normal map which Jool used to use, which is why they had the lighting bug before, and the fix to that did not involve adding back the normal map. I verified this behavior in tracking station, map mode, and in-flight.

RTB-Build-15: Shol (at its dimmest--being nearby a double star its brightness fluctuates over time. At its brightest it's washed out and completely white.) image

Old Kopernicus: Shol (medium brightness)

RTB-Build-15: Tyepolbynar image

Old Kopernicus: Tyepolbynar image

RTB-Build-15: Reander image

Old Kopernicus: Reander image

RTB-Build-15: Mandrake (top) and Rutherford image

Old Kopernicus: Mandrake & Rutherford image

WhirligigGirl commented 3 years ago

image as evident by Derbin here, the cloudy normal texture is still in the game. This means this can be fixed by modders using the following config (which I am about to test)

@ScaledVersion
{                      
          @Material
          {
                        %normals = BUILTIN/cloud_normal
            %bumpMapScale = 15,8
            %bumpMapOffset = 0,0
          }
}
R-T-B commented 3 years ago

Thanks for the pointers! I was indeed using just a generic normal map, which I bundled, for gas giants. This was due to me not knowing the path to the builtin cloud normals. Now I can finally fix that. I'll have a release that does so in a moment.

R-T-B commented 3 years ago

Fixed in release 17.