Troubleshooting and bug reports - SpaceEngine 0.9.8.0

tornadotodd · 30 Dec 2017 13:51

a series of red dots appear
Check the internal power cables, make sure your graphic card is properly seated, by firmly push it on the motherboard.

when I open up SE the window does not show up!
sporeguy91, could you please attach somehow your se.log file which is located in your SpaceEngine/system/ folder, as requested in the first post of this thread?

Hi,When I export my skybox, It will become this

There should be updated drivers for your graphic card, try updating and see if the issue persists.

sporeguy91 · 30 Dec 2017 22:18

PlutonianEmpire · 31 Dec 2017 01:53

I've noticed an interesting quirk to a bug Ive reported previously.

When setting relatively high masses for small bodies to get a surface gravity of 1 g, it will only work until some bizarre threshold has been passed. Above a kilometre radii of 1200 km, this scripting "cheat" will work just fine and dandy.

However, below a radius of 1200 km, the scripting "cheat" for 1 g of surface gravity stops working, and the body's density gets stuck at 12 g/cm3.

Above 1200 km radii:

Below 1200 km radii:

I was manipulating Eris when I discovered this part of the bug.

aFinapple · 04 Jan 2018 17:32

I hope this is the place to post this, but what kind of color code(s) does SpaceEngine use? like RGB, or CYMK, cause every color u use turns up like 3 different colors like in the pictures
The values in red are the ones i have questions about
colorSea (0.540, 0.254, 0.287, 1.000)
colorShelf (0.150, 0.370, 0.370, 1.000)
colorBeach (0.820, 0.730, 0.570, 0.000)
colorDesert (0.420, 0.360, 0.220, 0.000)
colorLowland (0.220, 0.230, 0.220, 0.000)
colorUpland (0.570, 0.540, 0.420, 0.000)
colorRock (0.100, 0.100, 0.100, 0.000)
colorSnow (1.000, 1.000, 1.000, 1.308)
colorLowPlants (0.230, 0.200, 0.020, 0.000)
colorUpPlants (0.500, 0.470, 0.050, 0.000)

04 Jan 2018 18:07

the color is coded as (R, G, B, A) or (R G B A), where values for each color channel range from 0 to 1. So gold, in rgb(255,215,0), should translate as:
(255/255, 215/255, 0/255, 255/255) = (1.000, 0.843, 0.000, 1.000)

In your case colorSnow is obviously pure white, but I'm not entirely sure that a value of 1.308 for alpha channel is meaningful for the engine.
An alpha channel value < 0.5 right now is treated as completely transparent, while >= 0.5 is completely opaque. ( wrong, only if related to ship texturing)
See the manual, this part is covered a bit better under "Creating a ship".

I think the post could have been better placed in "help in creating mods and addons" topic thread

aFinapple · 04 Jan 2018 18:15

the color is coded as (R, G, B, A) or (R G B A), where values for each color channel range from 0 to 1. So gold, in rgb(255,215,0), should translate as:
(255/255, 215/255, 0/255, 255/255) = (1.000, 0.843, 0.000, 1.000)

so if i wanted any color i divide the RGB by 255?

04 Jan 2018 18:26

Affirmative

aFinapple · 04 Jan 2018 18:37

Ok well thanks a million, and funny thing was that i thought that the values were CYMK and i put in 100, 37, 0, 25 for ocean blue and i got gold

04 Jan 2018 18:51

Could you please share it publicly?

04 Jan 2018 19:05

However, below a radius of 1200 km, the scripting "cheat" for 1 g of surface gravity stops working, and the body's density gets stuck at 12 g/cm3.

It is not a bug, it is a realism security check

Planet mass/radius are limited so that its density is no more than 12. This is done to fix "uranium planets" issue - some exoplanets in the catalog have incorrectly specified an upper mass limit instead of a real mass. I.e. according to catalog there could be a planet 1.2 R_earth with a mass of 6 M_jupiter. To fix that, this limit was introduced.

An alpha channel value < 0.5 right now is treated as completely transparent, while >= 0.5 is completely opaque.
See the manual, this part is covered a bit better under "Creating a ship".

Wrong, this is for ships which can use alpha-test textures. In planet palette file, alpha is a specular highlight. I.e. 1.0 = glossy ice, 0.0 = dirt.

04 Jan 2018 19:22

in planet palette file, alpha is a specular highlight. I.e. 1.0 = glossy ice, 0.0 = dirt.

ahh, sorry. Still it doesn't really use values > 1? Maybe I'm confusing again with some other parameter.

PlutonianEmpire · 04 Jan 2018 21:20

However, below a radius of 1200 km, the scripting "cheat" for 1 g of surface gravity stops working, and the body's density gets stuck at 12 g/cm3.
It is not a bug, it is a realism security check Planet mass/radius are limited so that its density is no more than 12. This is done to fix "uranium planets" issue - some exoplanets in the catalog have incorrectly specified an upper mass limit instead of a real mass. I.e. according to catalog there could be a planet 1.2 R_earth with a mass of 6 M_jupiter. To fix that, this limit was introduced.

Oooh Now I understand, thank you!

ZeGamingCuber · 06 Jan 2018 11:51

So I followed the steps to create a star but it does not show up in the game. help?

06 Jan 2018 13:12

So I followed the steps to create a star but it does not show up in the game. help?

You probably have the same problem as this:

aFinapple wrote:
Yes, and here is the code sorry

You have the wrong quotes, for the name of the star and for the class.
You have “, you need " !

ZeGamingCuber · 06 Jan 2018 18:18

So I followed the steps to create a star but it does not show up in the game. help?
You probably have the same problem as this:
     aFinapple wrote:
    Yes, and here is the code sorry

You have the wrong quotes, for the name of the star and for the class.
You have “, you need " !

No that still did not fix it

I have the sc file set as this:
// Creates a new object – a solitary star.
Star    "Fetu"
{
RA       16 10 45  // right ascension
Dec     -25 12 11  // declination
Dist     1000.0     // distance from the Sun
Class   "O1V"      // spectral class
Lum      10.00      // luminosity, or
//AbsMagn  -10.00    // absolute magnitude, or
//AppMagn  -1.00   // apparent magnitude
RadSol   9.78      // radius in Solar radii
MassSol  30.0      // mass in Solar masses
Teff     30000      // surface temperature in Kelvin

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