Anyone experiencing invisible planets in SC until you get very close to it?
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I can confirm the issue. A moon I was going to only appeared when I was close to it. I took a screenshot right at the moment she appears (tried to catch it when it was not visible) :
I think there is an issue with the "star" looking of planets. Some of them at least. They just appear when their swap to their model.
I think there is an issue with the "star" looking of planets. Some of them at least. They just appear when their swap to their model.
yep, this.
Noticed this too.
In Odyssey, post U11, the dot of light is missing for distant bodies where distant is something bigger than several ls
I confirm I am having this issue, too, I have been observing it for a few trips now.
What happens is that I see a distant cluster of objects (typically a gas giants with all its satellites) and as I get closer, as some point they suddenly vanish, and the single bodies reappear when I am only a few ls away from them.
What's more, I have tried to approach them not following a straight line: that is, I targeted one of the satellites and headed towards the bright cluster (with orbit lines on). At some point I deviated in a random direction, and when I pointed towards my target again , the bright cluster was no longer aligned with the reticle (or the orbit lines). Initially, I thought it could have just been a star cluster coincidentally aligned with my target, but as I got closer, it suddenly disappeared (tried twice, and it happened both times).
Sorry if this sounds confusing, I might try to add pictures at some point.
TLDR: yes, contributing to the issue on the tracker
What happens is that I see a distant cluster of objects (typically a gas giants with all its satellites) and as I get closer, as some point they suddenly vanish, and the single bodies reappear when I am only a few ls away from them.
What's more, I have tried to approach them not following a straight line: that is, I targeted one of the satellites and headed towards the bright cluster (with orbit lines on). At some point I deviated in a random direction, and when I pointed towards my target again , the bright cluster was no longer aligned with the reticle (or the orbit lines). Initially, I thought it could have just been a star cluster coincidentally aligned with my target, but as I got closer, it suddenly disappeared (tried twice, and it happened both times).
Sorry if this sounds confusing, I might try to add pictures at some point.
TLDR: yes, contributing to the issue on the tracker
Done, here.
Ah yes, the ancient and sad story of the Issue Tracker.
Seriously, itās like FDev doesnāt really want us to use it.
But thanks for trying.
Judging by all the expired issues that are "certainly being looked at despite their status", not even FDev wants to use it.
I have been experimenting, and there's a gap rather than just a vanishing, it's a vanishing and re-appearing more like it, strange. Here's my screenshots, you can see what I mean.
Here's the planet over 3kls away, you can clearly see the dot just as it used to appear;
Here it is under 3kls away, you can see the dot has vanished, I have tested this with a number of bodies and it is repeatable. The thing is of course if you are in a small solar system you may see nothing at all because everything is already within the vanishing distance, but in a large system you can clearly see the dots and they vanish as you get closer;
I have turned checkerboard rendering off and upscaling is set to normal so no interference from AMD/CAS or AMD FSR, I have also turned orbit lines off to make it as clear as possible. Speed in SC has no effect, and you can still clearly see the dots of other bodies much further away, so it seems to be a distance related thing, get within a certain distance and they vanish.
Here's the planet over 3kls away, you can clearly see the dot just as it used to appear;
Here it is under 3kls away, you can see the dot has vanished, I have tested this with a number of bodies and it is repeatable. The thing is of course if you are in a small solar system you may see nothing at all because everything is already within the vanishing distance, but in a large system you can clearly see the dots and they vanish as you get closer;
I have turned checkerboard rendering off and upscaling is set to normal so no interference from AMD/CAS or AMD FSR, I have also turned orbit lines off to make it as clear as possible. Speed in SC has no effect, and you can still clearly see the dots of other bodies much further away, so it seems to be a distance related thing, get within a certain distance and they vanish.
Yes, that's the thing I've been trying to report here.I have been experimenting, and there's a gap rather than just a vanishing, it's a vanishing and re-appearing more like it, strange. Here's my screenshots, you can see what I mean.
Here's the planet over 3kls away, you can clearly see the dot just as it used to appear;
Here it is under 3kls away, you can see the dot has vanished, I have tested this with a number of bodies and it is repeatable. The thing is of course if you are in a small solar system you may see nothing at all because everything is already within the vanishing distance, but in a large system you can clearly see the dots and they vanish as you get closer;
I have turned checkerboard rendering off and upscaling is set to normal so no interference from AMD/CAS or AMD FSR, I have also turned orbit lines off to make it as clear as possible. Speed in SC has no effect, and you can still clearly see the dots of other bodies much further away, so it seems to be a distance related thing, get within a certain distance and they vanish.
But later (after @MacIntoc pointed it out) I realized that in some rare cases the planets actually teleport (here at 0:08):
Which is even more obscure. I guess both issues are connected somehow.
Nice job, everyone who took the time to confirm 
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Iād say this is worth doing if you have voted for any long standing issue thatās unlikely to get fixed any time soon (quite a few in the Top 20 fall into this category) - or if you think this is a higher priority for your vote. Seeing as this is a bug that Iām experiencing every play session without fail, Iāve temporarily transferred a vote from another issue to it.
If anyone wants to vote for this issue but has already reached their six-vote limit, going onto Issue Tracker/My Issues/Voted and clicking an already-voted-for issue will free up a vote.
Iād say this is worth doing if you have voted for any long standing issue thatās unlikely to get fixed any time soon (quite a few in the Top 20 fall into this category) - or if you think this is a higher priority for your vote. Seeing as this is a bug that Iām experiencing every play session without fail, Iāve temporarily transferred a vote from another issue to it.
Not only that, I have rediscovered my enjoyment of flying in ED with orbit lines off because of this, I shall be doing that a lot more from now on!
Can wait to see the if it wins the race and get the honor to be fixed !The issue report now has the green tick of Acknowledgment
Itās in at #98 of the most voted-for issues.
Bonus round.Spot the difference time!
What can you see in Horizons that you can't in Odyssey?