[Fixed] Strange / unexpected coloring of units and buildings

[tomreyn]

I've ad two occasions where, at once (I cannot really tell how to reproduce this), my entire units and buildings became tinted in an unexpected color.

I assume this is not intended?

 

[Zoythrus]

happens to me too, i hate this bug....(actually, more often than not the shown color is usually teamcolor)

[Omega]

That is odd.

Offtopic: It would be interesting if whatever causing the tints could be activated with a button press, coloring all units and buildings with a team color tint, making it easier to see who's units are who's at all times, even when the modeler did not include team color or when it's too hard to see in a heated battle.

[Psychedelic_hands]

It would be interesting if whatever causing the tints could be activated with a button press, coloring all units and buildings with a team color tint, making it easier to see who's units are who's at all times, even when the modeler did not include team color or when it's too hard to see in a heated battle.

hehe.

Edit: is it just me, or does the shadow in the second picture look strange?

[Gabbe]

Looks like a fail attempt at cloaking everything?

[will]

Looks like the draw code is not calling glcolor(1,1,1,1) (or setting the uniform equiv if your using shaders) before drawing?

(Or maybe code that changes these values should be responsible for restoring them?  It saves a few calls)

(I would like a feature to draw trees at 50% alpha, buildings 60% alpha and the sides colour-coded like this, toggled with a hotkey.  I keep losing my soldiers on treelines, especially when they pursue an enemy without me noticing, and they take some finding)

[silnarm]

I reckon it looks awesome , and the suggestions to use it as a hotkey 'team-highlight' is cool.  Not sure exactly what is happening of course, but I think I can deliberately reproduce that effect easily enough.

@tomreyn: you haven't by any chance set RenderUseVBOs=true in your ini have you??

[tomreyn]

I have and had RenderUseVBOs=false in my ~/.glestae/glestadv.ini so that's not a valid excuse.

[hailstone]

Starting a game with --lastgame makes the model shader all black. Cycling the shader to fixed function adds the colour back. I don't think it's the shader itself because it works when going through new game menu.

[silnarm]

I have and had RenderUseVBOs=false in my ~/.glestae/glestadv.ini so that's not a valid excuse.

Can't blame a man for trying

Starting a game with --lastgame makes the model shader all black. Cycling the shader to fixed function adds the colour back. I don't think it's the shader itself because it works when going through new game menu.

Sweet... got it. It's the fog, the shaders are always expecting and using the GL inbuilt fog params, even if the tileset doesn't use fog.  Going through the menus seems to leave the menu's fog settings for myself and you, but for tomreyn, zoy and possibly others the colour was being overwritten by the team colour somehow.

Fixed now ?

[tomreyn]

It seems to be. It did only happen sometimes, and often only several minutes into the game, so I can't tell for sure, but I tested a bit today and it didn't occur again since.

[ultifd]

Happens for me on git-master with both of the tutorials at least...very weird.

[-Archmage-]

I saw this stuff a while ago, but not recently...

[ultifd]

Nevermind, this happens to regular games too with magitech.

[-Archmage-]

Nevermind, this happens to regular games too with magitech.

Yes, this happens with Constellus as well, it's definitely a code-based bug.