Forged Alliance Forever

Re: 3708 ongoing development thread

2019-11-11T02:51:02+02:00

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

Statistics: Posted by armacham01 — 11 Nov 2019, 02:51

Re: 3708 ongoing development thread

2019-11-11T00:24:50+02:00

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?

Statistics: Posted by BlackYps — 11 Nov 2019, 00:24

Re: 3708 ongoing development thread

2019-11-11T00:13:34+02:00

Ok that worked thanks.

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

Statistics: Posted by Farmsletje — 11 Nov 2019, 00:13

Re: 3708 ongoing development thread

2019-11-10T03:35:24+02:00

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

Code:: 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.

Statistics: Posted by BlackYps — 10 Nov 2019, 03:35

Re: 3708 ongoing development thread

2019-11-10T03:30:48+02:00

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

Statistics: Posted by nine2 — 10 Nov 2019, 03:30

Re: 3708 ongoing development thread

2019-11-10T00:35:18+02:00

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

Statistics: Posted by Farmsletje — 10 Nov 2019, 00:35

Re: 3708 ongoing development thread

2019-11-10T00:31:49+02:00

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.

Statistics: Posted by keyser — 10 Nov 2019, 00:31

Re: 3708 ongoing development thread

2019-11-10T00:23:39+02:00

where are my colors :(

Statistics: Posted by Farmsletje — 10 Nov 2019, 00:23

Re: 3708 ongoing development thread

2019-11-10T00:11:28+02:00

i'm afraid it's on your side farm-kun

Statistics: Posted by keyser — 10 Nov 2019, 00:11

Re: 3708 ongoing development thread

2019-11-09T23:49:40+02:00

To continue about the shader stuff

https://puu.sh/ECG5e/e32e31df1e.png
https://puu.sh/ECG5H/64f327fec5.png
https://puu.sh/ECGca/9826b67ecc.png

I'm not sure if it was this bad before but this surely doesn't look great

Statistics: Posted by Farmsletje — 09 Nov 2019, 23:49

Re: 3708 ongoing development thread

2019-11-08T23:56:17+02:00

Voodoo wrote:
Please stay constructive! It's not helpful to blame developers who spend their free time.

Try to work together and not against each other, I'm sure you will accomplish your goals :)

People should stop acting like devs are the holy angels of faf which are spending their own PRECIOUS free time on making the community a better place.

"spending their free time" is such a mute point too. I myself spend 30+ hours on some maps which turned out to be hated by almost everyone. You don't hear me saying "I SpeND mY FrEE TimE MakiNg thIS mAp You BetTER ApPReCiaTE it". No it's my own fucking fault that i made a bad map. Just because people spend their free time doesn't mean they are helping the community

Wow you don't want to play this newly released map? It was made by someone spending his OWN FREE TIME trying to make the community a better place. How ungratefull!
Wow you dislike this tournament director who made a mess of the tourney? You ungratefull bastard he spend his own free time!
This councillor is destroying ladder with his ladder pools? He is spending his own free time trying to make it better, how dare you say such a thing!

Yes, all devs are ofcourse a great addition to faf and the vast majority of the newly released content is good, but that doesn't exclude them from criticism.

Statistics: Posted by Farmsletje — 08 Nov 2019, 21:11

Re: 3708 ongoing development thread

2019-11-08T17:01:34+02:00

What a joy to contribute to this project!

Statistics: Posted by speed2 — 08 Nov 2019, 17:01

Re: 3708 ongoing development thread

2019-11-08T12:23:02+02:00

UnorthodoxBox wrote:
I don’t really see what the big deal is with the alien bois being less shiny. A lot of the game isn’t spent really paying attention to unit visuals anyway since a lot of commands and such are done while zoomed out.

I get what you are saying, though my whole point is that it looks bad when you are like semi zoomed out, which is also one of the zoom levels in which you give a lot of commands

sounds like a you problem buddy

Yes, how dare I complain about something post release!

Statistics: Posted by ____ — 08 Nov 2019, 12:23

Re: 3708 ongoing development thread

2019-11-08T08:56:55+02:00

i didnt pay attention

sounds like a you problem buddy

Statistics: Posted by biass — 08 Nov 2019, 08:56

Re: 3708 ongoing development thread

2019-11-08T08:48:56+02:00

I don’t really see what the big deal is with the alien bois being less shiny. A lot of the game isn’t spent really paying attention to unit visuals anyway since a lot of commands and such are done while zoomed out.

Statistics: Posted by UnorthodoxBox — 08 Nov 2019, 08:48