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light shines through the planet in the night

anonymus anonym shared this bug ago

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How to repeat the bug.

1. build something on a planet (tested it on Mars) next to a some mountains.

2. wait till its night

3. suddenly its getting brighter and you wonder why

4. You see your shadows up on the wall of the mountain because the light is coming from under you and is shining through the planet

I have the same bug

Replies (3)

Vox Serico ●

This is usually because you have shadows set to off, switch to low and the problem goes away.

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Auhrii ●

I've been seeing this issue for a while now, with shadows set to high.

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anonymus anonym ●

@Vox Serico. I have shadows at high. The problem is not that there arent shadows. The problem is that only builded blocks cause shadows. However voxels do not cause shadows.

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Frigidman ●

I have shadows set to medium, and also tried with off and high. Same result. But I see all the bottoms of "Trees" light up during certain times of the late night before morning. Very weird effect, and is related to what this bug report is about.

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Laura K ●

Hello!

Thank you for updating this thread and I'm sorry you are having issues. Is it possible that you are able to provide some screenshots of this happening to help us reproduce the issue? Any further information for this would be a huge help.

Kind Regards

Laura, QA Department

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Frigidman ●

Hi Laura, sorry... we have ended the scenario (Lost Colony), and have begun an entirely new game. Currently out in space and it may be a few weeks/months before we reach a planet again.

The issue was fairly obvious for both of us. During night time, there were moments where light would shine through the planet terrain surface and light up all the bottoms of trees and grid structures. It would then go away and the sun would 'rise' on the horizon normally. Short lived, about like 5 minutes long (real time minutes), each pre-morning. This was during the scenario Lost Colony (if maybe that planet had the bug?).

No screenshots of the effect, never thought to take one! Sorry.

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Laura K ●

Hello!

Thank you for getting back to me. I understand about creating a new scenario which is no problem. Thank you for the extra information too! Were you playing on low graphical settings or, fairly high with the scenario? If you do run into this again, please share some screenshots with us :)

Kind Regards

Laura, QA Department

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Frigidman ●

We both were running at mostly high settings (we both use nvidia 980ti cards), however we both tried adjusting the 'shadows' settings from low to high with no visible effect (other than loss of frame rate at high). Not sure if the issue was caused by 'shadows' but some other graphics setting. We did not fully try to debug the issue and just chalked it up to 'one of those things that happens, oh well' and then continued to enjoy and play that scenario ;)

And yes, if we see this again, on any planet in the future, I will be sure to snag some screenshots if the issue actually persists.

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Auhrii ●

For what it's worth, I've been seeing this on Star System saves for a while on Earthlike. I also didn't think to take any screenshots, but I shall do if I encounter it again. Shadows are set to high, running on a Vega 56.

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Laura K ●

Hello!

Thank you both for this, interesting that is appears to be happening on higher settings for you. Certainly, any screenshots would be a huge help as it probably won't convey with a save file being shared sadly!

Kind Regards

Laura, QA Department

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QA KeenSWH ●

Hello, Engineer!

Because there is no new comment from you, and we are unable to reproduce the issue on our own, I will close this thread now as outdated.

If you or any other player will experience this issue again, please make a new thread and provide all needed info there.

Thank you for understanding.

Kind Regards

Keen Software House: QA Department

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