Req: fix ATI issues - will lend ATI5850 1gb ram

[Licho]

I would like to have engine and LUPS issues fixed if possible. I'm willing to lend some developer ATI5850 for at least 6 months.

Preferably from EU.

[zerver]

I have a 5970, not sure I'm the right person to fix it, but do you have a list of these issues?

[Licho]

Yes. Issues vary from driver to driver however.
On latest driver 10.7:

- trees/features are invisible
- 3do models lack texture
- shorewaves not working
- horizontal artifacts (z-fighting-like) on ground/water
- bumpmapped water not displaying any waves except from very small angle
- lups air jitter not working on flames etc - but works on explosions


On catalyst 10.4 it is:
- no shadows visible (NEW TO 0.82)
- strange white toning of 3do models (NEW TO 0.82)
- map is gray-white in F4 mode (NEW TO 0.82)
- shorewaves not working
- lups air jitter not working
- lups jets not working (NEW TO 0.82)
- lups ribbons not working (NEW TO 0.82)

[Jazcash]

- map is gray-white in F4 mode (NEW TO 0.82)

Oh I thought this was the intended behaviour because it seemed better than the old metal map view Well, me and Sheep noticed that if the map texture is green, it goes grey. Colours like yellow stay yellow, it's kinda weird...

[Licho]

Oh also forget - lups cloaked units in CA are completely invisible.

[aegis]

I'm not really a fan of the new gray metal map look at all (I'm using nvidia)

I often play in metal map view (to darken the map and always see metal spots for strategic reasons). Looks terrible as that gray color.

[hoijui]

the metal view change was done as kind of a quick-fix/work-around for too dark metal spots.
some change since last release made metal spots in F4 view darker, and the ones under water very hardly visible anymore. with a proper fix for that, the other change to the F4 view could be reverted.
there is a mantis report for this bug, and i think i even bisected the commit that cause the regression... (searching)

[Jazcash]

I like the new metal map view, a lot. I just wish it made everything grey instead of only certain colours.

[CarRepairer]

to darken the map

Use the brightness widget.

always see metal spots for strategic reasons

Flaw of the map/mod combination. Instead of desiring the metalmap view to be prettier (or in this case, less ugly and the way it was before), a real game design solution should be what you want.