Reflective/Shiny Surfaces

Hello all!

Note that it is a known issue that many surfaces are overly shiny/reflective. Moreso than they ought to be! Fixing will be a long and ongoing process.

Please respond to this thread with objects you see this occurring instead of creating new threads.

 

There is a root at this location in Blood Bay. It looks a little like a large snake. It is very shiny
1/20/2017 5:38 PM
Title:
Reproduction Rate:
Blocker?
Details:
Steps to Reproduce:
User Specs:
OS: Windows 10 (10.0.0) 64bit
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz (8) System RAM: 16325
GPU: AMD Radeon R9 200 Series GPU RAM: 4073
SotA.EarlyAccess.Win.64.439.Date.01.19.17
Area: Novia_R3_Island01_01
Area Display Name: Blood Bay
Loc: (567.1, 82.2, 59.8)

 

For me, the shininess is more noticeable during daylight.


My character's plain-vanilla, purchased-from-NPC plate armor. Either this, or the material for the armor in prior releases was too dull.

My self crafted bronze two-handed sword. As with the armor, either or.

Vauban Pass:

Red Spiders.
Hardened Skeleton Archer Armor.
Hardened Skeleton Fighter Armor. And Heavy War Hammer.
Huge Corpions.
Elder Wolves.

Stone walls at:

Area: Vauban Pass (Novia_R4_Hills01_VaubanPass) Loc: (-6.6, 26.3, -0.1)
Area: Vauban Pass (Novia_R4_Hills01_VaubanPass) Loc: (-2.4, 25.7, 10.4)
Area: Vauban Pass (Novia_R4_Hills01_VaubanPass) Loc: (48.0, 21.0, 55.1)
Area: Vauban Pass (Novia_R4_Hills01_VaubanPass) Loc: (89.2, 27.8, 60.7)
Area: Vauban Pass (Novia_R4_Hills01_VaubanPass) Loc: (103.8, 28.1, 81.7)


Stones at base of well at:

Area: Vauban Pass (Novia_R4_Hills01_VaubanPass) Loc: (38.0, 16.7, 32.4)




Forest Siege:

Stones in road/path and tree roots.

Area: Forest Siege (SiegeEncounter_Forest01_Road/Novia_R9_City_Northwood) Loc: (-41.0, 31.3, -106.4) and look around.



Blood Bay:

Obsidian Golems. Sample location: Area: Blood Bay (Novia_R3_Island01_01) Loc: (-450.0, 139.5, -169.6)
I also want to say the Flesh Flayers look a little bright. Just off.


Kneeling statue at Area: Blood Bay (Novia_R3_Island01_01) Loc: (-433.2, 145.5, 85.1).



Stone Walls at:

Area: Blood Bay (Novia_R3_Island01_01) Loc: (528.2, 66.9, 130.2)
Area: Blood Bay (Novia_R3_Island01_01) Loc: (540.5, 67.0, 141.8)
Area: Blood Bay (Novia_R3_Island01_01) Loc: (589.2, 61.0, 167.4)
Area: Blood Bay (Novia_R3_Island01_01) Loc: (607.2, 63.9, -163.3)
Area: Blood Bay (Novia_R3_Island01_01) Loc: (601.7, 64.4, -162.8)
Area: Blood Bay (Novia_R3_Island01_01) Loc: (574.7, 65.5, -158.3)


Tree roots at:

Area: Blood Bay (Novia_R3_Island01_01) Loc: (541.0, 45.2, -130.9) and others below it.
Area: Blood Bay (Novia_R3_Island01_01) Loc: (534.7, 18.8, 384.4)





More to come...

 

Eastreach Gap, stonewall to the left when you enter
Area: Eastreach Gap (Novia_R4_Desert01_EastreachGap) Loc: (-381.7, 106.1, -104.4)
E Gap, stone walls inside
Area: Eastreach Gap (Novia_R4_Desert01_EastreachGap) Loc: (-180.6, 129.5, -143.7)

also the Corpions do shine noticeably

 

All the statues in Xenos are very shiny (but beatiful!)
around Area: Xenos (Novia_R11_City_Xenos) Loc: (106.5, 38.7, 51.7)

Update: those made of some dark material. The brighter ones look ok.

 

Leaving my first post alone. Continuing.

Player housing windows:

Founder Knight's Keep windows: Area: Northwood (Novia_R9_City_Northwood) Loc: (-136.1, 46.7, 254.9)
Knight Marshall Benefactor windows: Area: Northwood (Novia_R9_City_Northwood) Loc: (-139.2, 46.7, 228.0)

When I get back to it, my large house in Broochash, as well.


It could be a glass material with certain properties. The windows of the stationary air ship in Blood Bay appear the same.




Blood Bay:

The floating shards.

 

Standing on the volcano in Blood Bay and looking.... west, I think it is. Anyway, the structure and the blobs next to it.

 

As mentioned in a prior post..

The windows of a Duke Benefactor home. Sample location: Area: Broochash (Novia_R5_City_Broochash) Loc: (324.0, 85.0, -29.7)

and, while I'm at it:

Duke Founder
Edelmann Benefactor
First floor windows of the Baron Founder
The window in the door of the Citizen Benefactor


The hinges and door pull of the Lord Marshal Benefactor home. Also, the six diamonds on the wall above the front door.

 

...and the windows of the Lord Benefactor home. Sample location: Area: Holtrot (ForestVillage02/Holtrot) Loc: (75.7, 48.2, 34.1) .

 

Does hair count? I can see that the hair is not being affected by the mist on the overworld map:




User Specs:
OS: Linux 4.8 Fedora 23 64bit
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz (4) System RAM: 32100
GPU: GeForce GTX 1060 6GB/PCIe/SSE2 GPU RAM: 6144
SotA.EarlyAccess.Linux.64.442.Date.01.22.17
Area: Novia
Area Display Name: Novia
Loc: (303.4, 11.5, -262.0)

 

Not sure if this is the same issue? You can see the hair is still not partaking in whatever is broken about the skin/body textures.

Note that this effect went away a few seconds later (dawn to early morning transition I think)

User Specs:
OS: Linux 4.8 Fedora 23 64bit
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz (4) System RAM: 32100
GPU: GeForce GTX 1060 6GB/PCIe/SSE2 GPU RAM: 6144
SotA.EarlyAccess.Linux.64.442.Date.01.22.17
Area: Novia_R4_Hills01_VaubanPass
Area Display Name: Vauban Pass
Loc: (100.6, 31.1, -131.5)

 

A lot of the rock formations in the Twins Foothills (and sister scenes).

1/23/2017 10:34 PM
Title:
Reproduction Rate:
Blocker?
Details:
Steps to Reproduce:
User Specs:
OS: Windows 10 (10.0.0) 64bit
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz (8) System RAM: 32689
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 GPU RAM: 8144
SotA.EarlyAccess.Win.64.442.Date.01.23.17
Area: Novia_R11_Hills01_ElysiumMinesEntrance
Area Display Name: Twins Foothills
Loc: (123.6, 52.1, -3.5)

This location is just left of the entrance. There is a rock formation there, but then look around. It is throughout the scene. Hopefully a global material fix can be had.

 

@Attenwood , there are so many objects its almost hard to make a list that long... From Avatars skin/hair/eyes....to Clothing/Armor ....to almost everything I see.

Out of curiosity... what happened to cause this?

-MH

 

Hair still looking funny in 444, though almost the reverse of the above as for seems to be affecting hair but nothing else.




User Specs:
OS: Linux 4.8 Fedora 23 64bit
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz (4) System RAM: 32100
GPU: GeForce GTX 1060 6GB/PCIe/SSE2 GPU RAM: 6144
SotA.EarlyAccess.Linux.64.444.Date.01.23.17
Area: Novia_R5_City_Brookside
Area Display Name: Brookside
Loc: (-56.8, 50.2, 455.9)

Edit: an even more obvious one of the hair in Brookside:

 

• The flooring of the wood and plaster burned village home Area: Hometown (POT_island_metropolis_01_template/Hometown) Loc: (136.0, 89.0, -72.5)
• The windows in lots of players houses Knight Marshalls Tower etc

 

Firedancer shoes/gloves glow in the shade


User Specs:
OS: Linux 4.8 Fedora 23 64bit
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz (4) System RAM: 32100
GPU: GeForce GTX 1060 6GB/PCIe/SSE2 GPU RAM: 6144
SotA.EarlyAccess.Linux.64.446.Date.01.25.17
Area: POT_island_metropolis_01_template/Diamond Fields
Area Display Name: Diamond Fields
Loc: (97.9, 89.0, -57.8)

 

dont know if this belongs here or not



pants are dyed grey and dark grey but are way brighter now
epic cloth gloves arent dyed at all and now look funny bright blue and bright yellow and dont resemble the little icon anymore

 

Area: South Shattered Hills (Novia_R6_Hills01_02) Loc: (-7.0, 73.1, 86.7)

Many of the rocks in these zones that are cloned have it too.