Gorgeous alien vision doesn't work properly?
Gorgenapper
Join Date: 2012-09-05 Member: 157916Members, Reinforced - Shadow
Join Date: 2012-09-05 Member: 157916Members, Reinforced - Shadow
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Screens?
And reproduction steps if possible?
Specs?
You have Radeon, don't you?
Wait, do mods automatically disable after an update? I vaugely remember that....
Thanks
@killer : okay.. but we could still use a DXDIAG to determine hardware + driver combos that aren't working with this change
I then joined a server and Alien vision worked perfectly. During loading it had to compile some shaders, console says shaders included alien vision and some surface shaders for some different models including marine and some other alien lifeforms.
Restarting my client and joining a server yielded the same result- That being no issue. I will try more tomorrow to reproduce the issue, but it is late, so I will sleep.
So far the chance of alien vision not working seems rather intermittent. Sometimes it will work, other times I load up and I can't see anything on alien vision. Once it happens though, it is guaranteed to happen until I restart the game and it seems I 'roll again'.
Here are a few images of the issue I am having to back up my claims and hopefully help with the solution:
Here is normal alien vision working during one of it's intermittent states:
And this is the issue I am getting when things don't seem to go right:
One thing to note is while both of these screenshots only show alien structures, It also effects viewing marines, other lifeforms, and marine structures. The only things that show up highlighted are cysts and powernodes.
I tried a few other things to try and pinpoint the issue:
-I unsubscribed from the minimal alien vision mod (Which had been disabled before, mind you) and deleted it from my steam workshop files so it no longer has anything to do with my game. To no avail.
-I removed the darkvision.screenfx and alienvision.screenfx (separately and together) because the console told me they were interfering with consistency checking. Loading up without them, as expected, removed my alien vision all-together from the game. After re-validating the local game files and getting fresh versions of the shaders I removed, I joined a game only to have the same issue as before, that of no targets being highlighted on my alien vision. And, as before, the console tells me darkvision.screenfx failed consistency. Hm. (This was a completely vanilla file downloaded from steam through re-validation.)
-After revalidating, I loaded into an explore mode map and opened alien vision to find another issue I was having before: Strange alien vision colors and things not highlighting. Here's some screenshots of what I found:
I find it very strange that after replacing the very files that servers are saying don't validate, I still get the same issues. So has anyone else had any luck with reproducing this or finding a solution? I am hoping this information helps you somehow, @Ironhorse . I am waiting anxiously because this is something that does limit my gameplay and I know other people are having similar issues too. Thanks in advance for assistance, and I apologize again for bringing this back.
On regular vision I see my teeth disappear, but with alien vision I always see my teeth in green even when cloaked instead of them being mostly translucent.
That's another issue I have seen with alien vision this patch that seems a bit more regular. I don't know if It has something to do with this though, since I have this issue with cloaking or not.
http://imgur.com/a/fkFoT
Red when you're visible, green when you're invisible.
http://forums.unknownworlds.com/discussion/128780/alien-vision-gorgeous-issue#latest
Please post bugs in the tech support forums in the future.
Thanks!