Ok, the black sky issue was indeed caused by changing the clear color. The effect is really ugly - black sky when flying through clouds or fog. Also black sky when flying above a cloud layer. And it's not restricted to 2D clouds alone.
That's the relevant commit: http://www.gitorious.org/fg/flightgear/commit/b36b33f716031ef5933d41a1e5c17c6be3e54c28 Apparently the change was introduced "only" to turn the color of space black instead of gray. I think flying through clouds/fog is more important than space-flights for now, so I'm planning to revert that particular commit shortly until we have a better solution. I know it's a pity and I apologize to all Vostok-1 cosmonauts. :-) Any objections (preferably accompanied by a patch ;-) )? cheers, Thorsten On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Alan Teeder <ajtee...@v-twin.org.uk> wrote: > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Martin Spott" <martin.sp...@mgras.net> > Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 8:15 PM > Newsgroups: list.flightgear-devel > To: <flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Testing OSG-trunk / bug issue #268 > >> ThorstenB wrote: >> >>> Thanks Curt, that sounds very much like a possible reason. Was that a >>> change to fg/sg or fgdata? Anyone remembers the exact commit? >> >> As far as I remember, it's related to "Lauri Peltonen" and "sky dome", >> it's implementing a shader (among other stuff) and was indeed meant to >> bring FG closer to how the sky looks in real life: black :-) >> I'd have a few commits on offer which might be related, but at least >> one of them is hiding the possible changes in a big reformatting rush >> (preferences.xml). >> > > > Thorsten, Martin. > > There is a reference to the black sky problem on the forum at > http://www.flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=11274&start=30 by > "Zan", the author of the atmospheric scattering patch . > > I have been trying various cloud combinations with an aircraft parked on the > runway, but so far have not made any visible changes. > > Alan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What Every C/C++ and Fortran developer Should Know! Read this article and learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help Windows* and Linux* C/C++ and Fortran developers boost performance applications - including clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
