Question about Pariah, playing with "Effects" (shaders) on (and of course dgVoodoo2).
Why in the video cutscene (XBox one?) the communication tower level "big blue light core" (?) has a powerful bloom and in game it's not there?
You can see the bloom applied to the "halo" but not to the core.
Shading issue or cutted feature in the PC release?
It seems cutted in the XBox release too!
It's from a previous version of the game? You can see it in the.....loading screens 🤣!
Always in the tower (power generators section below) you can see this "depth fogging" problem playing with the shaders enabled (no issues disabling them) and walking around.
It's related only to some surfaces/textures/objects!
You can see it very well here (and it's not related to the MSAA, enabled or disabled the issue is there)
D3D8 engine of course.
It's not related to HasNVidiaTexM32Tex in the config file, that variable doens't make any difference with dgVoodoo2 (set to 1 is needed using standard or tweaked MS D3D8 on recent GPUs).
No, it was from an old version you can see in the.....loading screens 🤣
More important the fogging bug!
wrote:AFAIR I didn't debug this game so I can't say much about its rendering technique.
I remember you've tested it to fix z-fighting on some surfaces and cubemap issues about the lighting on the weapons skin ('cause I've already ask for this 😁 but now I'm testing with the FX - bloom & motion blur - shaders on)
wrote:And what about the XBox version? Is it present there as well? 😀
AFAIR I didn't debug this game so I can't say much about its rendering technique.
Ah, you mean the depth fogging? The fogging bug is NOT present in the PC version with MS D3D8.dll (standard or UCyborg tweaked one to get back the VSync).
It's dgVoodoo2 related.
wrote:You can see it very well here (and it's not related to the MSAA, enabled or disabled the issue is there) D3D8 engine of course. […]
You can see it very well here (and it's not related to the MSAA, enabled or disabled the issue is there)
D3D8 engine of course.
It's not related to HasNVidiaTexM32Tex in the config file, that variable doens't make any difference with dgVoodoo2 (set to 1 is needed using standard or tweaked MS D3D8 on recent GPUs).
Which level is it? I think I never get there. 😁
I only have a savegame, spawning me in the forest (2nd level).
Communication Tower sublevel, to power up the generators.
It's at the beginning of the sublevel, after the first ladder.
Take a look around and go at the dead end of the corridor.
I can of course provide you the save game checkpoint!
That'd be cool, thanks! Could you attach it here?
https://www.mediafire.com/file/ay7xj3lj5qix90 … edGame.zip/file
Click "Resume"
You'll start in the tower, second part of the mission
Dispatch the 4 enemies on the ground floor
Go down the ladder
TURN 180° and here the dead end with the fogging problem
Thanks! I've just fixed it. I remember somebody reported very similar fogging bug in FFXI. I hope it'll fix that as well.
wrote:Thanks! I've just fixed it. I remember somebody reported very similar fogging bug in FFXI. I hope it'll fix that as well.
Just how can you be so talented? 😁 You're incredible, man!
Having HasNVidiaTexM32Tex enabled is needed using dgVoodoo or not?
Setting it to "1" (like using MS D3D8) can create some problems?
wrote:Just how can you be so talented? 😁 You're incredible, man!
Having HasNVidiaTexM32Tex enabled is needed using dgVoodoo or not?
Setting it to "1" (like using MS D3D8) can create some problems?
Thanks, but it's not about talent. I debugged tons of games in the recent years, I have my established tools and methods for debugging, experience for what to guess and look for, and some bugs prove to be easy to fix. (On the other hand, there are very hard ones, almost impossible to debug.)
HasNVidiaTexM32Tex: I didn't yet look at what it changes.
HasNVidiaTexM32Tex: I don't know what this option controls. Suggested by the name, I guessed it's the presence of the texm3x2tex instruction in the shaders. But it's all for the same what I set it to (0 or 1), the game creates shaders with texm3x2tex's either way.
With MS D3D8 and modern hardware+drivers if you do NOT enable that option you got perfect bla*N*k frames using the shader FX (Bloom, Motion Blur)