Problem Earth night lights are disappearing

[luki1997a]

Hello:hello:
I'm using oficiall EarthL11_L14 texture of earth. But the problem is: the night texture is visible only from +-70 km. Sorry, if it has been posted before. Does anyone know how to fix it?

 

[orb]

the night texture is visible only from +-70 km.

Is it visible only below 70 km, or only above that?

Have you installed any other Earth textures before level 11+14?

 

[luki1997a]

Only below. I haven't installed any other earth textures before. I remember that, I've deleted package with textures, and created new Orbiter installation. I've copied tex files from the previous install, but i think, i've copied all necessary files.

 

[orb]

I've copied tex files from the previous install, but i think, i've copied all necessary files.

What .tex files did you copy?

Were those for the Earth only: Earth_tile.bin, Earth_tile.tex, Earth_tile_lmask.tex and Earth_cloud.tex from Textures2 folder, or some more?

Are Earth.tex, Earth_lmask.bin and Earth_lmask.tex files in Textures folder last modified in May 2010, or earlier?

 

[luki1997a]

What .tex files did you copy?

Were those for the Earth only: Earth_tile.bin, Earth_tile.tex, Earth_tile_lmask.tex and Earth_cloud.tex from Textures2 folder, or some more?

Are Earth.tex, Earth_lmask.bin and Earth_lmask.tex files in Textures folder last modified in May 2010, or earlier?

I think I can download it again. I've copied Earth.tex, Earth_lmask.bin and Earth_lmask.tex. it was a long time ago.

 

[orb]

I've copied Earth.tex, Earth_lmask.bin and Earth_lmask.tex. it was a long time ago.

You shouldn't have copied those files from older installation. There should be used the stock textures from Orbiter package when you use Earth L11+14.

 

[luki1997a]

after reinstalling textures the problem is still there

 

[orb]

after reinstalling textures the problem is still there

What textures did you reinstall?

As night lights disappear above 70 km, you have problem with low resolution textures, and reinstalling high resolution package won't help, because it's working just fine.

You need to re-extract the low resolution Earth textures from the Orbiter archive.

 

[luki1997a]

What textures did you reinstall?

I've reinstalled EarthL11_14 and then defalut earth tex from Orbiter archive.

It's exactly disappearing at ~300 km(still visible from ISS), but I can see only night textures, which are closest to me. Further ones are invisible.

Little pseudo-schema:
_______ISS________

------======-------

- means invisible
= means visible(night earth tex)

 

[orb]

Are they disappearing too, when you do a clean install with only Earth level 11+14 textures installed, and nothing else (i.e. extract Orbiter to empty folder, extract Earth L11+14 there, don't install or copy anything else, run Orbiter and check)?

 

[luki1997a]

Ok, I've installed it on a almost clean Orbiter(just omp installed) and it's working. But I still don't know why it don't work for me:shrug:

 

[orb]

Ok, I've installed it on a almost clean Orbiter(just omp installed) and it's working. But I still don't know why it don't work for me:shrug:

Most likely because of some add-on that replaced standard resolution Earth textures.

 

[luki1997a]

Most likely because of some add-on that replaced standard resolution Earth textures.

But I've reinstalled base textures...h:

 

[Columbia42]

Do you have D3D9 and enbseries installed? These are causing low resolution and disappearing night lights for me.

 

[luki1997a]

Do you have D3D9 and enbseries installed? These are causing low resolution and disappearing night lights for me.

Yes. But I think that D3D9Client installation has caused the problem:hmm: