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Anteworld - Outerra Game => Tech demo, support, updates => Topic started by: John514 on January 11, 2016, 05:49:23 pm

Title: 2 little bugs
Post by: John514 on January 11, 2016, 05:49:23 pm
Title: Re: 2 little bugs
Post by: Uriah on January 11, 2016, 08:13:56 pm
Go to your user data directory, typically Windows User/YourName/Outerra, open eng.cfg in text editor:

Code: [Select]
renderer_config =  (renderer_config) {
screen_width = 1920,
screen_height = 1080,
fullscreen = true,
swap_interval = 0,
msaa = 3,
debug_mode = false,
debug_async = true,
refresh_rate = 60,
disable_composition = false
You can manually set the render configs here.

I've found the the context menu for the resolution in the Graphics settings menu seems to either not have the option (sometimes), or you can't scroll down enough in the menu to see it.

If you are ever having issues after an OT update, it is recommended you delete both eng.cfg and world.cfg and restart OT, which will generate those files from the latest default files. Sometimes an update will not update the parameters in these files and they become corrupted or incompatible with the new version.

P.S. Can you post a screenshot of the mini-Earth inside Earth? I've never heard of that before.

Regards,
Uriah
Title: Re: 2 little bugs
Post by: HiFlyer on January 11, 2016, 08:41:09 pm
Quote from: Uriah on January 11, 2016, 08:13:56 pm
P.S. Can you post a screenshot of the mini-Earth inside Earth? I've never heard of that before.

Regards,
Uriah

And we shall call it....... MINI earth!! (Cue dramatic Dr Evil music)

(http://i1287.photobucket.com/albums/a625/Multitesseract/images_zps0jsuuxqw.jpg)
Title: Re: 2 little bugs
Post by: Jagerbomber on January 11, 2016, 10:43:22 pm
You sure it's not the moon underwater?...  =D
Title: Re: 2 little bugs
Post by: John514 on January 12, 2016, 03:40:39 am
Thanks for the fix!
Here`s the mini-Earth:
(http://hostthenpost.org/uploads/9ff0d617a3f6915778495ffb4e82bc98.jpg)
As you can see, the terrain of the normal sized earth is on the top of the screen and the mini-Earth in the distance!
Title: Re: 2 little bugs
Post by: Uriah on January 12, 2016, 04:05:06 am
Jagerbomber assumed correctly, that is the moon seen through the planet. Since the earth mesh is only rendered from one side, the normal side, if you are under the surface, everything is transparent, thus, you can see the moon. It wouldn't be good for performance to render both sides of the terrain mesh.

Regards,
Uriah
Title: Re: 2 little bugs
Post by: John514 on January 12, 2016, 04:08:01 am
Wow, I blame me being colorblind! :P
It was only after I zoomed in I realised thats not the Earth!
Title: Re: 2 little bugs
Post by: Uriah on January 12, 2016, 04:14:12 am
;)

You can also change the moon size by adding this parameter to world.cfg:

Code: [Select]
moon-scale = 4.0,
It isn't there by default, just make sure if it is the very last parameter, to add a comma to the parameter before it, like so:

Code: [Select]
cfg-version = 6226,
moon-scale = 4.0
I have it added under planet parameter, like so:

Code: [Select]
planet = "earth30",
moon-scale = 4.0,
The scale of 4.0 corrects for angular FOV, as seen from Earth.

Regards,
Uriah
Title: Re: 2 little bugs
Post by: Jagerbomber on January 12, 2016, 06:22:25 am
 =D =D =D