Edge of water totally screwed up

kirbyssb · Post by **kirbyssb** » 25 Feb 2006, 19:34

Weird graphics bug. The edge of the water is totally screwed up. When I zoom out more it gets even worse, to the point of the entire level being covered in glitchy looking water

Has anybody else had this problem? Help would be GREATLY appreciated.

Chocapic · Post by **Chocapic** » 25 Feb 2006, 21:06

ive had exactly the same problem looking over the new pretty beach map, where the division between land and sea shows like that.
its really very weird.
also planes have some weird designing of the such.

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 25 Feb 2006, 21:41

Your water is making vertical plates rather then horizontal plates... I couldn't even begin to guess why though...

kirbyssb · Post by **kirbyssb** » 26 Feb 2006, 05:06

I discussed it with somebody and they said it looks like Z-fighting, and that it could probably be fixed if the developers include a Zbitdepth option in the next update..

athemis · Post by **athemis** » 26 Feb 2006, 20:36

Same thing over here. Appears not only when playing water maps, but also with maps that have got areas with ground level near zero.

kirbyssb · Post by **kirbyssb** » 26 Feb 2006, 22:23

athemis wrote:Same thing over here. Appears not only when playing water maps, but also with maps that have got areas with ground level near zero.

Yep, same.

Weaver · Post by **Weaver** » 27 Feb 2006, 07:12

The reflective water does not do this, for me at least.

athemis · Post by **athemis** » 27 Feb 2006, 12:47

This bug - at least for me - does not depend on reflective water. I've got reflective water turned off because my graphic card doesn't support fragment_program. But I'm still suffering from this issue.

kirbyssb · Post by **kirbyssb** » 28 Feb 2006, 06:00

The new update didn't fix this for me, how about you guys?

Tobi · Post by **Tobi** » 28 Feb 2006, 10:22

kirbyssb wrote:I discussed it with somebody and they said it looks like Z-fighting, and that it could probably be fixed if the developers include a Zbitdepth option in the next update..

I doubt it is...

But if you want to test, 0.70b2 reads DepthBufferBits config variable (on win, from register). It uses a 16 bit depth buffer by default.

athemis · Post by **athemis** » 01 Mar 2006, 14:32

kirbyssb wrote:The new update didn't fix this for me, how about you guys?

Well, 0.70b2 didn't fix it for me, either.

Edit: I did a quick test under Linux using wine. Strangely the water looks just fine - on the same box (beside the fact that the mouse does not work properly

).
So the problem seems so be Windows- and/or driver-related.
I personally tend to the latter one and will try different drivers for my nVidia GF4 Ti, but TASpring < 0.70x ran fine with the driver version I'm using at the moment.

Edit2: Tried the rather old Detonator 66.93, which might be more appropriate for my GeForce 4 Ti than the latest ForceWare driver, but still no luck under Windows

athemis · Post by **athemis** » 02 Mar 2006, 13:50

Tobi wrote:
kirbyssb wrote:I discussed it with somebody and they said it looks like Z-fighting, and that it could probably be fixed if the developers include a Zbitdepth option in the next update..
I doubt it is...

But if you want to test, 0.70b2 reads DepthBufferBits config variable (on win, from register). It uses a 16 bit depth buffer by default.

Yep, that's it!
Changed the depth buffer to 24 bit and no more ugly glitches :)

Here are the complete instructions:

Open regedit (Start -> run -> regedit)
Look for the following key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/SJ/spring
If it does not already exist, create a new DWORD value named "DepthBufferBits" and set its decimal value to 24
Start TASpring

Chocapic · Post by **Chocapic** » 02 Mar 2006, 22:06

athemis wrote:
Tobi wrote:
kirbyssb wrote:I discussed it with somebody and they said it looks like Z-fighting, and that it could probably be fixed if the developers include a Zbitdepth option in the next update..
I doubt it is...

But if you want to test, 0.70b2 reads DepthBufferBits config variable (on win, from register). It uses a 16 bit depth buffer by default.
Yep, that's it!
Changed the depth buffer to 24 bit and no more ugly glitches :)

Here are the complete instructions:

Open regedit (Start -> run -> regedit)

Look for the following key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/SJ/spring

If it does not already exist, create a new DWORD value named "DepthBufferBits" and set its decimal value to 24

Start TASpring

cant this be automaticly done when instaling spring?

athemis · Post by **athemis** » 03 Mar 2006, 13:06

Chocapic wrote: cant this be automaticly done when instaling spring?

Well, obviously this problem does not occur for everyone playing TASpring.
I guess that it might have an advantage so set the DepthBuffer to only 16 Bit instead of 24Bit.

I think it would make more sense to include an option into the setting program that let you choose between 24Bit and 16Bit.

Generuler · Post by **Generuler** » 10 Mar 2006, 16:40

i've got the same problem

lets see if the changing of the bit-depth works

├óÔÇÜ┬¼:yes it helped great thankyou very much :)

Generuler · Post by **Generuler** » 05 May 2006, 17:20

The depth buffer bits value gets changed back every time there is an update with spring

coudn't there be an option to change the value ingame?

i am definatly not the only one whos edges of water get screwed up and whos textures get weird....
regards, generuler

mongus · Post by **mongus** » 06 May 2006, 02:34

Chocapic wrote:cant this be automaticly done when instaling spring?

It will be fixed in next release.

Spring RTS Engine

Edge of water totally screwed up

Edge of water totally screwed up