Flickering image blocks - any ideas

vanjast · 04-29-25, 01:47 PM

Only on the external view... any ideas.

Hooston · 04-30-25, 05:07 PM

Is it a lens flare effect not working properly? Looks like something applied to the sky using an overlay texture but the texture is lacking an alpha component or the overlay method is not supported. Is it OK on a cloudy day and at night?
Try messing with all those horrible incomprehensible settings a couple of menus down on your graphics card. Or set the rendering preset to "quality". Or set it to "performance".

vanjast · 05-01-25, 08:15 AM

Found the Fog mods a possible cause.
Removed those and all is well again.

Hooston:- I'll keep an eye on that. thanks

Hooston · 05-01-25, 12:21 PM

Fog makes sense. It looks like the sort of thing you get when two meshes are drawn in the same place in 3d space and I think fog mods tend to use semi-transparent mask objects. There are much cleaner and more efficient ways of doing fog, but probably much harder to insert into the ancient game code. Increasing the precision ("quality" on your graphics card settings) should fix it as it obviously worked for someone.
i noticed some of the ship models in GWX Knights Cross flickered a bit, which might be the same thing, it's easy to accidentally duplicate some polygons... But could be something else...

04-29-25, 01:47 PM	#1
vanjast Sea Lord Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Somewhere else now Posts: 1,740 Downloads: 825 Uploads: 4	Flickering image blocks - any ideas Only on the external view... any ideas.

04-30-25, 05:07 PM	#2
Hooston Frogman Join Date: Jun 2020 Posts: 288 Downloads: 16 Uploads: 0	Lens flare? Is it a lens flare effect not working properly? Looks like something applied to the sky using an overlay texture but the texture is lacking an alpha component or the overlay method is not supported. Is it OK on a cloudy day and at night? Try messing with all those horrible incomprehensible settings a couple of menus down on your graphics card. Or set the rendering preset to "quality". Or set it to "performance".

05-01-25, 08:15 AM	#3
vanjast Sea Lord Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Somewhere else now Posts: 1,740 Downloads: 825 Uploads: 4	Found the Fog mods a possible cause. Removed those and all is well again. Hooston:- I'll keep an eye on that. thanks

05-01-25, 12:21 PM	#4
Hooston Frogman Join Date: Jun 2020 Posts: 288 Downloads: 16 Uploads: 0	Fog makes sense. It looks like the sort of thing you get when two meshes are drawn in the same place in 3d space and I think fog mods tend to use semi-transparent mask objects. There are much cleaner and more efficient ways of doing fog, but probably much harder to insert into the ancient game code. Increasing the precision ("quality" on your graphics card settings) should fix it as it obviously worked for someone. i noticed some of the ship models in GWX Knights Cross flickered a bit, which might be the same thing, it's easy to accidentally duplicate some polygons... But could be something else...