3708 ongoing development thread

[keyser]

BlackYps do you have an idea why it would look that shitty on farm end ?

he told me, he tested different quality settings, but it didn't matter.

[Farmsletje]

Tried to remove all ui mods & gameprefs but that didn't fix it either

[nine2]

Hey Farms

Try deleting your shader cache
C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Gas Powered Games\Supreme Commander Forged Alliance\cache

Otherwise look at your quality settings, do you have bloom on etc. Maybe get a screenshot of someone's settings and copy them

[BlackYps]

The only thing that triggers a recompile of the shaders is deleting the shader cache. It is located here:

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C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Gas Powered Games\Supreme Commander Forged Alliance\cache

You can delete the entire folder. The needed files reappear after you start a game.

I have no idea how this happened though. It could be one of my work-in-progress versions. Did you download any of them? If you did, you also need to remove the file and then purge the cache.

Edit: Anihilnine was faster. But it is not related to the quality settings. It should always have the armycolors, regardless of settings. If it happened at random, it is a bug and I need to investigate it.

[Farmsletje]

Ok that worked thanks.

I didn't download any wip files. Just the forced gamepatches when released.

[BlackYps]

I'm glad it worked!

But now we know that the shader bugs out randomly. I have no idea what causes it. I encountered this bug while working on it, but I always thought it was because I fucked something up in the code.
Now an unknown percentage of players has a terrible looking shader and doesn't even know it, because they don't know that it should actually look different.
Any suggestions what we can do about it?

[armacham01]

Would it make sense for the client to clear out the cached files every 6 months?