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Flashing Decals

Postby Lionhardt » 09 Sep 2013, 05:50

I got an issue with decals. Some of them will flash from being displayed to not being displayed. This seems to happen only on sloped and rough surfaces. Is there something to prevent this?

Edit: After experimenting for a while I came to the conclusion, that this problem is caused by an overlap of normals decals with any other decals. Can anybody confirm this?
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Re: Flashing Decals

Postby Plasma_Wolf » 09 Sep 2013, 10:31

For as far as I know, it's only got to do with the slope. Do the decals look good? I'm asking this because you can make a single decal 500m long by weirdly placing it on a hill or ridge. That may cause the flashing problem. Those two issues always coincided when I was placing decals.
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Re: Flashing Decals

Postby Lionhardt » 09 Sep 2013, 11:24

They are not distorted if that's what you mean. I did enlarge them quite a bit indeed though, to contingently cover some mountains with a couple of them. Once I removed the normal decals the flashing was gone. I will do some more testing with stacking albedo decals on the mountains and normals decals on flat ground.
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