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Eclipse shadow bug still occurs on my board - shadow if visible on both side of the planet.
Using : 1.2.5pre7 / ATI Radeon (7200) / WinXP Home

(Note : but now last snapshot from CVS perfectly compile on my Linux mdk9/gcc3.2. Thanks)

I am now suddenly seeing strange eclipse behaviour too (1.2.5 pre 6 and 7): strange flickering patterns on earth during a solar eclipse. Win ME, geforce2gts 32MB. It used to work fine, though I'll have to check in which versions. NVidia driver 29.42

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Chris Laurel is a forgetful man! Every time he releases a new version of Celestia, bugs he fixed before appear again!

He cant think of everything Besides this has never been fixed...Ring shadows do the same...Turn ambient light down to low for now...

As far as the patterns..the same...been there since day one...Hell fix it one of these days ...

I too have discovered that if a planet (eg Jupiteris an obvious one) is viewed almost in the plane of the terminator, shadows of moons appear to pass right through to the planet's dark side. Of course, they can be seen only if the dark side is lit by 'ambient' light! I have seen this phenomenon on four different machines; two too antique to be attempting to use Celestia on (but converted their owners!) and my two Packard Bells - an i-media and an earlier machine with a G-force graphics card.
Just thought it worth a mention for you perfectionists out there!
Stan

As far as I remember, this flickering in the eclipse shadow was NEVER corrected in ANY version : Checked with two PC with respectively GF2 32MO and GF3 64 MO.
You are right , we are too perfectionist!!
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