reported Powerlines: weird coloring

[AstonMartinDBS]

You can see this weird colored powerlines in Caucasus when you fly low and look against a bright, foggy or cloudy background.

 

Settings:

Track: CA UH-1H PowerlinesWiredColoring.trk

Log: dcs.log

[silverdevil]

25 minutes ago, AstonMartinDBS said:

You can see this weird colored powerlines in Caucasus when you fly low and look against a bright, foggy or cloudy background.

hello. i may be wrong. this looks like an AA issue. your DLAA is greyed out in the screenshot.

what do you have in NCP for AA?

[AstonMartinDBS]

45 minutes ago, silverdevil said:

your DLAA is greyed out in the screenshot.

Indeed! I didn't recognice that so far... I'll re-check my settings.

 

45 minutes ago, silverdevil said:

what do you have in NCP for AA?

All default:

Edited December 1, 2023 by AstonMartinDBS

[AstonMartinDBS]

17 minutes ago, AstonMartinDBS said:

I'll re-check my settings.

Well, changing Upscaling from "DLSS" to "OFF" enabled the drop-down Anti-Aliasing, which I've set to "DLAA".

But changing this settings didn't solve the issue, the color of the powerlines is still weird:

When I'm understand the grapical options correct then setting Upscaling from "OFF" to "DLSS" just locks the setting Anti-Aliasing to "DLAA", but doesn't disable it. It wjust greyed-out, but not invisible. This could mean that DLSS is requiring DLAA. Please correct me, if I'm wrong.

Edited December 1, 2023 by AstonMartinDBS

[AstonMartinDBS]

1 hour ago, silverdevil said:

i may be wrong. this looks like an AA issue.

I don't think so. I've tried several AA options (DLAA only, DLAA with DLSS, MSAA 2x, MSAA 4x) - sadly always with the same result.

[silverdevil]

37 minutes ago, AstonMartinDBS said:

I don't think so. I've tried several AA options (DLAA only, DLAA with DLSS, MSAA 2x, MSAA 4x) - sadly always with the same result.

more i look, it seems to me an AA issue. try to turn off all the AA settings in DCS. see if there is a change. all sorts of things it could be. i personally do not have this issue.

[AstonMartinDBS]

10 hours ago, silverdevil said:

try to turn off all the AA settings in DCS. see if there is a change.

• [NVCP] AA mode: off, [DCS] AA: off -> same issue
• [NVCP] AA mode: default (application-controlled), [DCS] AA: off -> same issue
• [NVCP] AA mode: default (application-controlled), [DCS] AA: DLAA, [DCS] UPSCALING: off, [NVCP] AA gamma correction: off -> same issue
• [NVCP] AA mode: default (application-controlled), [DCS] AA: DLAA, [DCS] UPSCALING: DLSS, [NVCP] AA gamma correction: default -> same issue

 

I also tried to change SHARPENING from 0,5 to 0 and 1, but that hadn't any effect to this issue either.

 

10 hours ago, silverdevil said:

i personally do not have this issue.

Did you watch the whole track (~1 Minute)? Which GPU do you have?

BTW: I'm using the latest nVidia drivers (546.17 DCH)

Edited December 2, 2023 by AstonMartinDBS

[silverdevil]

2 hours ago, AstonMartinDBS said:

Did you watch the whole track (~1 Minute)? Which GPU do you have?

BTW: I'm using the latest nVidia drivers (546.17 DCH)

sorry i do not have huey so i cannot watch the track. @Flappie may be able to interject. i have a 3090.

have you emptied your shader folders? reinstalled graphics driver? renamed your options.lua to options.lua.bak? restart DCS and it will be recreated.

[Flappie]

I've seen the same issue yesterday. I'm sure it had been fixed at some point (when 2.8 came out, I believe). Here's a track you can try, @silverdevil. Tell us if you see it too.

 

white powerlines.trk options.lua

[silverdevil]

33 minutes ago, Flappie said:

I've seen the same issue yesterday. I'm sure it had been fixed at some point (when 2.8 came out, I believe). Here's a track you can try, @silverdevil. Tell us if you see it too.

thanks flappie. i will test today and let y'all know.

[silverdevil]

@AstonMartinDBS and @Flappie here is a screenshot taken running flappies track. it seems to happen at certain angles. but this screenshot definitely shows the same white powerlines.

[AstonMartinDBS]

Thanks for confirming @silverdevil & @Flappie.

[Glide]

This is related to the weather setting.  Try Overcast with Rain.

[Vakarian]

Yesterday we flew a mission in the heavy foggy weather with Light Rain 1 preset, and powerlines always renders weird when their backdrop was fog (and in the distance the sky). When there was fog behind them and a small bit after that was land, they rendered normally.

If track's needed, I can make one tonight, but wanted to check if anyone else experienced this as well.

EDIT: just to be clear, they looked exactly like in the OPs screenshots

Edited December 5, 2024 by Vakarian

[AstonMartinDBS]

6 hours ago, Vakarian said:

powerlines always renders weird when their backdrop was fog (and in the distance the sky). When there was fog behind them and a small bit after that was land, they rendered normally.

That's exactly the same, what I observed after the recent patch:

BTW: The issue with landing on water has been reported separately in the UH-1H section.

CA UH-1H LandingOnWater PowerlineColor.trk

Edited December 5, 2024 by AstonMartinDBS

[Vakarian]

This looks like something in the rendering pipeline. What could be bad news for us is that if it is, we are likely not going to see the fix until the switch to the Vulkan codebase. 

[MoleUK]

Related issue I think: