General Question Jupiters occultations

[Mister Mxyzptlk]

After all these years on Orbiter I just noticed that Jupiter doesn't cast a shadow on it's moons during occultation. Why is that? I haven't tested it but I presume it is the same for the other gas giants?

 

[Izack]

No, planets do not cast shadows (no eclipses, occultations, etc.) for the simple reason that the feature is not implemented. It would be a nice thing to have in future Orbiter versions, though, but not something urgently needed (it is primarily a spaceflight simulator after all, not a visualisation tool, though it does look very nice in other respects.)