Cloud shadows won't show

[PlutonianEmpire]

Hmm, I'm using Don E's 2k earth cloud map, and I set the ssc modifying earth to include the cloudshadowdepth 1, but cloud shadows are not showing at all on the surface, even when under 100% opaque clouds. The same is true for every single other planet.

How do I get them to show? Changing render paths and using non-vt textures don't work (I never use VT clouds; I gotta have that cloud rotation).

[selden]

The clouds have to be quite high for the shadows to be obvious. Here's the Earth, using Celestia v1.6.1 and Earth's default cloud texture, but raised to an altitude of 700 km (default is 7 km). You must select the OpenGL 2.0 render path for them to be drawn.

[PlutonianEmpire]

The clouds have to be quite high for the shadows to be obvious. Here's the Earth, using Celestia v1.6.1 and Earth's default cloud texture, but raised to an altitude of 700 km (default is 7 km). You must select the OpenGL 2.0 render path for them to be drawn.

Umm, I know they can be visible, and have noticed them myself; the problem is, they're simply *not* drawn at all.

I go down to the surface and turn the cloud shading on or off, in OGL2.0 of course, and they're just not being drawn, even on cloud maps that are quite heavy on the clouds.

[selden]

Unfortunately, I don't know what to suggest. Obviously something is different between your configuration when you saw the shadows and when you didn't. Have your graphics drivers been updated, for example?

[PlutonianEmpire]

Not for a while, but I probably should have been more clear.

What I have been noticing is that Celestia does indeed draw cloud shadows, and does them just fine, the problem is, it only draws cloud shadows for one cloud map, and not another, even if they are very similar.

Here's a zip containing the cloud maps. the one used on Belle Hades has cloud shadows shown, but the one for Earth doesn't.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3610210/Celest ... hadows.zip

[Fenerit]

The transparent parts of the canvas must be completely transparents; they could be not transparents even if looks as such. Is enough a bit of opacity of the full canvas for not showing the shadows.

[PlutonianEmpire]

The transparent parts of the canvas must be completely transparents; they could be not transparents even if looks as such. Is enough a bit of opacity of the full canvas for not showing the shadows.

Umm. What?

The belle hades clouds I provided cast their cloud shadows, and yet do not have a single pixel of complete transparency.

[selden]

Unfortunately, I see shadows with both texture files, so I'm not sure what to suggest.

You probably should use a different name for the one which doesn't cast shadows, not earth-clouds.png. My system used the image in Celestia's own textures directory until I renamed it to no_shadows.png.

Here's the SSC I used for testing:

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"no_shadows" "Sol" {

   Texture "neptune.*"

   # SpecularTexture "earth-spec.*"
   Color [ 0.85 0.85 1.0 ]
   SpecularColor [ 0.8 0.8 0.85 ]
   SpecularPower 25.0
   HazeColor [ 1 1 1 ]
   HazeDensity 0.3
   Radius 6378.140  # equatorial
     EllipticalOrbit { Period 1 SemiMajorAxis 1 }

   Atmosphere {
      Height 60
      Lower [ 0.43 0.52 0.65 ]
      Upper [ 0.26 0.47 0.84 ]
      Sky [ 0.40 0.6 1.0 ]
      Sunset [ 1.0 0.6 0.2 ]

      CloudHeight 700
      CloudSpeed 65
      CloudMap "no_shadows-clouds.png"
      CloudShadowDepth 1.0

      Mie 0.001
      MieAsymmetry -0.25
      Rayleigh [ 0.001 0.0025 0.006 ]
      MieScaleHeight 12
   }
    UniformRotation
    {
       Period         23.93447117
       Inclination   -23.4392911
       MeridianAngle 280.147
    }

}

"yes_shadows" "Sol" {

   Texture "saturn.*"
   
   # SpecularTexture "earth-spec.*"
   Color [ 0.85 0.85 1.0 ]
   SpecularColor [ 0.8 0.8 0.85 ]
   SpecularPower 25.0
   HazeColor [ 1 1 1 ]
   HazeDensity 0.3
   Radius 6378.140  # equatorial
     EllipticalOrbit { Period 2 SemiMajorAxis 2 }
   Atmosphere {
      Height 60
      Lower [ 0.43 0.52 0.65 ]
      Upper [ 0.26 0.47 0.84 ]
      Sky [ 0.40 0.6 1.0 ]
      Sunset [ 1.0 0.6 0.2 ]

      CloudHeight 700
      CloudSpeed 65
      CloudMap "yes_shadows-clouds.png"
      CloudShadowDepth 1.0

      Mie 0.001
      MieAsymmetry -0.25
      Rayleigh [ 0.001 0.0025 0.006 ]
      MieScaleHeight 12
   }
    UniformRotation
    {
       Period         23.93447117
       Inclination   -23.4392911
       MeridianAngle 280.147
    }

}


[PlutonianEmpire]

Hmm... Still didn't work.

So it might be a graphics or driver issue. :/