Problem with clouds and models with Nvidia

[ElPelado]

As many of us already know, using the latest Nvidia drivers, if we enable the clouds, the models look very ugly.
Doesn anybody know why this is happening?

[selden]

I see no difference in clouds or the Earth or the ISS, whether or not clouds are enabled.

You, or one of the many, will have to provide a picture showing exactly what you mean.

System:
256MB 500MHz P3, Win XP Pro SP1
128MB GF4 Ti4200, drivers v. 56.64
Celestia v1.3.2pre7

[ElPelado]

ISS without clouds:


ISS with clouds:

[maxim]

The model becomes emissive.
That looks like a bug I've reported some time ago - see http://216.231.48.101/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4568&highlight=

In my case the model became normal again when looking away from the planet. I've never checked since then if this is still present, but as I remember, it goes away when switching to a simpler rendering path.

maxim.

[ElPelado]

I know it only happens in certain modes, but it shouldnt happen at all... anyone knows why it happen?

[maxim]

What graphic card to you have?

maxim

[ElPelado]

Nvidia GeForce 2 MX/MX 440 64Mb...

[maxim]

I have also a MX card, and having a (similar?) problem chris gave me the hint to overwrite a faulty shader with an old version.

see http://216.231.48.101/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4677&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

right down the page. Perhaps this helps for you too.

maxim

[maxim]

No, the above hint doesn`t help, because I can confirm also still having this problem in 1.3.2p7

I posted (somewhere and earlier) that this behavior vanishes when switching to a lower rendering path - but that`s of course no longterm solution.

maxim