Glide Posted December 29, 2020 Posted December 29, 2020 I know this is a WIP. The shadows of the sidewinders and pylons are behaving strangely.
ED Team BIGNEWY Posted December 29, 2020 ED Team Posted December 29, 2020 Hi Can I ask you to attach a short track replay showing it happen. When I test it seems fine, maybe I am missing something Forum rules - DCS Crashing? Try this first - Cleanup and Repair - Discord BIGNEWY#8703 - Youtube - Patch Status Windows 11, NVIDIA MSI RTX 3090, Intel® i9-10900K 3.70GHz, 5.30GHz Turbo, Corsair Hydro Series H150i Pro, 64GB DDR @3200, ASUS ROG Strix Z490-F Gaming, PIMAX Crystal
Glide Posted December 29, 2020 Author Posted December 29, 2020 @BIGNEWY Attached. Aim-9 Shadow Test.trk
ED Team BIGNEWY Posted December 29, 2020 ED Team Posted December 29, 2020 Hi the attached track replay is flying in the persain gulf in the dark, maybe the wrong track? We have tried to reproduce and all seems ok, are you using any terrain mods / shader mods? can you try a full cleanup and repair for me or verify if a steam user thank you Forum rules - DCS Crashing? Try this first - Cleanup and Repair - Discord BIGNEWY#8703 - Youtube - Patch Status Windows 11, NVIDIA MSI RTX 3090, Intel® i9-10900K 3.70GHz, 5.30GHz Turbo, Corsair Hydro Series H150i Pro, 64GB DDR @3200, ASUS ROG Strix Z490-F Gaming, PIMAX Crystal
Glide Posted December 30, 2020 Author Posted December 30, 2020 Thanks, @BIGNEWY This is one for Area-51. I have had terrain shadows turned off for weeks, and I have been wondering why my aircraft shadows were above ground sometimes, or below ground, or flashing on and off as I taxi along. I also had track file recording disabled in my autoexec.cfg, but I turned it back on for this test. I flew this one (attached) and saved the track, but you got a completely different mission. Now, when I fly it, my shadows are gone, as per my settings. I watched the track before attaching it this time. Cannot reproduce. Aim-9 Shadow Test 2.trk
Glide Posted December 30, 2020 Author Posted December 30, 2020 (edited) I can reproduce this, but it seems to happen at the end of a mission. I had no aircraft shadows at takeoff, but at landing I had shadows (but no sidewinders left to create shadows). However, my aircraft shadows did some funky dancing as I rolled down the runway at Al Minhad at the end of the mission. Edited December 30, 2020 by glide
Glide Posted December 30, 2020 Author Posted December 30, 2020 @BIGNEWY Looks related to time of day. I moved the clock and now I have shadows at takeoff. Seems that if you look at the sidewinder it gets a shadow, but if you look away, the shadow disappears. Sidewinder Shadow Test 3.trk
ED Team BIGNEWY Posted December 30, 2020 ED Team Posted December 30, 2020 Thanks for the track, it still seems good to me. can attach your dcs log for me, let me know if you use any terrain or shader mods Forum rules - DCS Crashing? Try this first - Cleanup and Repair - Discord BIGNEWY#8703 - Youtube - Patch Status Windows 11, NVIDIA MSI RTX 3090, Intel® i9-10900K 3.70GHz, 5.30GHz Turbo, Corsair Hydro Series H150i Pro, 64GB DDR @3200, ASUS ROG Strix Z490-F Gaming, PIMAX Crystal
Schuke Posted December 31, 2020 Posted December 31, 2020 (edited) 19 hours ago, BIGNEWY said: Thanks for the track, it still seems good to me. can attach your dcs log for me, let me know if you use any terrain or shader mods I do believe this problem is from DCS's shadow rendering strategy: When an object is off player's screen meaning that we dont see directly the object, its shadow doesn't render even if it shall be seen. Not only missiles and pylons, but also planes have this phenomenon. Edited December 31, 2020 by Schuke
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