Alien Eyes Hiding in Bushes along Horizon

[Robert Van Vugt]

Here is another buggg for your attention, see screen shot

This is on an XP Pro SP3 with 13.1 32bit ANGLE installed. Using ATI X1650 Pro AGP 512M video card with latest drivers.

Robert

[Robert Van Vugt (rvvcuda)]

Ok - These appear to be windows of buildings that are in the standard/default panorama, I have never seen these before 13.0 but if these are intentional they could be reduced in intensity a very great deal and yellowed up a bit. They do not track with the sky.

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

It's not a bug, it's a feature :) The landscapes are support the light layer for modelling light pollution from lights on Earth like lighting windows (who you can see on screenshot).

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

Georg, maybe we should add new option to landscape's settings for enable/disable this feature?

[Robert Van Vugt (rvvcuda)]

That would be a good idea, if you decide to leave them on all the time could they be reduced in brightness to a more reasonable level and maybe yellowed up a bit as the look fake and out of place. I use your program to run a telescope and this is really not needed but in a planetarium it could be a nice effect if it looked a little more realistic. An option to turn it off would be the best solution I think.

Thanks
Robert

[gzotti (georg-zotti)]

If you don't like it, you can edit landscape.ini and remove the line starting with "light4". How bright or yellow a window appears is certainly matter of taste and available light bulbs.

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

A fix has been committed as revision 7104 of the trunk branch of Stellarium's Bazaar repository at Launchpad: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~stellarium/stellarium/trunk/revision/7104