Nightshade Legacy

About horizontal flip

Asked by Ramón Vargas Salas

Hi, I'm Ramón Vargas, from México., and I work for a Science museum in the city of Xalapa, Veracruz.

I had been using Stellarium 0.9.1 with spheric mirror distortion for a while and just a couple of days ago I install nightshade 11.2.1 on an iMac with Intel processor and Snow Leopard 10.6.6.

All runs fine except for when I use the spheric mirror distortion, all the labels on te screen (planets names, star names, constellation names, etc.) are flipped horizontally.

I know that if I change my video proyector configurations, flipping the output image, all labels are now in the correct form, but that is some kind of problem for me because I also run a software to project movies on the dome. So when I wish use on or another, I have to make change on the configurations on the video projector, resulting anoying for the audience.

I even try to use this comands on the config.ini file, wich works fine in stellarium 0.9.1 when sphericmirror distortion is enable:
flip_horz = true
flip_vert = true

but seems to have no effect.

Is there a way to solve this or I have to wait until someone could make changes to the nightshade source code?

Thanks in advance for your attention and let me say to you that you are doing a really great job. ¡Thanks!

As soon as I understand better Nightshade I would like to contribute with some scripts and other things in the range of my possibilities.

Best regards from Mexico.

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Rob Spearman (rob-digitaliseducation) said : 		#1

This flipping feature was disabled a while back for performance reasons. We did not realize anyone was depending on it. So we do have it on our list of things to fix.

Maybe there is a way to flip your movies in your video player?

Any contributions to the project would be welcome, glad you like it otherwise.

Rob

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Ramón Vargas Salas (ravasa64) said : 		#2

Hi, Rob. Thanks for the quick response to my question.

I will look for the solution to flip the videos instead.

Just a remark: in my first attemps in trying to running nightshade, all what I got was a blank and black screen. After many tryouts, I found that the config.ini file has a resolution of
screen_w = 0
screen_h = 0
After changes the zero values to the my desire resolution everything works fine. The happens the first time I was running nightshade both, on Windows and Macosx.
Also from time to time, when I quit the program, the same problem appears and I had to change the resolution on the config.ini.

This is no a really big problem and I just want to comment it.

Thanks again for the attention an I'll be in touch.

Regards.

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Rob Spearman (rob-digitaliseducation) said : 		#3

If you keep seeing this 0x0 window setting getting reset please enter a bug report and tell us what OS versions and screen resolutions you are seeing this on so we can investigate further.

Thanks!

Rob

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