But when I went down to the surface, I found out that the sun really did NOT appear between the horizon and innermost ring as the shadow implies--it is still hidden behind the rings instead:
Is there gonna be a fix to this at all?
Ring shadow bug!
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Ring shadow bug!
I was looking down on Earth from space at Minneapolis, and saw that according to the ring's shadow on the planet indicated that the sun now shines between the horizon and the innermost ring:
But when I went down to the surface, I found out that the sun really did NOT appear between the horizon and innermost ring as the shadow implies--it is still hidden behind the rings instead:
Is there gonna be a fix to this at all?
But when I went down to the surface, I found out that the sun really did NOT appear between the horizon and innermost ring as the shadow implies--it is still hidden behind the rings instead:
Is there gonna be a fix to this at all?
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Re: Ring shadow bug!
PlutonianEmpire wrote:Is there gonna be a fix to this at all?
Chris made a fix to the ring shadow code today. It might be better in CVS now. We'll have a 1.4.1 maintenance release in the next little while.