Rock - splitter event 4th July --

[dalliance1]

You guessed it .....the pink rocks are back !

[YuGi_2142]

Hurray! *in a not really chearful tone* I think the players would be much happier, if we could have the "all you can do ftl mission" agian, instead of the rock splitter

[dalliance1]

NEWSFLASH !!!

I have no idea how this happened but I logged into the game and after 20 mins sat waiting for it to load I jumped into rasta after spawning in 84 cerb , got to Rasta and OMG NO PINK ROCKS !! I actually saw gold and silver rocks !!!

However after splitting a few I decided to jump to another "rock" system to see if the same thing had happened there ....... BIG mistake the pink rocks came back , jumped back to Rasta and they were there also .......

like I said very confuzzling !!

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Just had the same thing happen again ...loaded into the game and was in Hugin , the skin was missing on my ship however the rocks for the event were not pink but silver . ( I have screenshots if needed ) , I then jumped out of the system into Rasta and the skin appeared on my ship and the pink rocks re-appeared !

[AnnaLilith]

Ok about the rocks if you lower your graphics detail you will see the rocks display the right colors but you have to get within 500 to see the rocks at all, when I put my detail to high the rocks where visible from any distance, easier to see but they are PINK and couldn't tell what rocks where silver or gold till I selected them. Also noticed the platforms have the same issues as the silver and gold rocks. This is probably tied in to the same bug in the system.
So all I did was make the rocks pink and selected till I found gold ones then got board and started shooting the drones as they are more profitable than the rocks. but yes giving us free FTL missions was better not that I knew about it till it was over but at least I know about it now. XD

All and all it was a nice thing to have the event.

thanks for the fun now it's back to XBL and Fallout NV. keep up the good work and get more versions of the ship done so we have more than just the SR Raptor/ Heavy Raider.

[dalliance1]

I managed to FRAPS /capture what is happening in regards to the "rocks" from the splitter event being ok and then turning pink .

Background information for the 2 videos ---

Video 1 - No pink rocks ---

I loaded into the game at 242 Apollid - ship had no "paint" , jumped from there to Fenris where upon spawning ship paint appeared and I noticed I did not see any pink rocks on spawn ( effect can be seen in video 2 ), so I started recording , as you can see the rocks were textured ok and both gold and silver rocks could be seen .To check if this was a one off I jumped back to Apollid and then returned to Fenris and the rocks were still ok . You can also see in the video how long loading times between jumping systems have become .

However when I then tried to jump from Fenris to Spectris the unity crashed and I had to log in again .


Video 2 -- return of the pink rocks ----

On loading the game again I appeared in Spectris and recorded the pink rocks --- I jumped from spectris to Fenris where you can see the pink rocks appear as soon as the player spawns into the system .

Again you can see the now increased loading times on jumping from system to system .

Video 1 -----http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmX2V...re=context-cha

Video 2 ----http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvzl9SkKGps&feature=plcp

Perhaps the pink rock issue was not connected to the gfx card not recognizing the shaders that were being used , and was in fact an issue with the assets loading into the game .It could be the case that the texture/ shader is not being loaded . this might be connected to other "assets" not loading into the game such as the debris fields , wreckage , ship models etc .

Please note that no settings on either the game gfx and model quality or my laptop were changed

Hope this will help .

Dall

[dalliance1]

Mundas ,

I have spent some time looking through the unity log from the gameplay in the videos in the last post , and I found the following (could this be related to the pink rock issue ?) ------

"Shader 'Legacy Shaders/Lightmapped/Diffuse': fallback shader 'Legacy Shaders/Lightmapped/VertexLit' not found
Shader 'Legacy Shaders/Lightmapped/Bumped Diffuse': fallback shader 'Legacy Shaders/Lightmapped/Diffuse' not found
Shader 'Legacy Shaders/Lightmapped/Bumped Specular': fallback shader 'Legacy Shaders/Lightmapped/Bumped Diffuse' not found
Unsupported: Legacy Shaders/Lightmapped/Bumped Specular"

i dont know if that is any use to you at all , if you need the actual unity log itself so you can see what the above relates to please let me know and I will send it via a support ticket to yourselves .

Dall

[makinbaconSF]

I'll be passing this information along to the devteam (Mundas is on vacation, I'm reliving my old glory days in his stead ).

[dalliance1]

Signed in today to the rock splitter event , lo and behold in fenris the gold and silver rocks were just that ...gold and silver !! jumped to spectris and same thing they were rendering correctly .

I was then killed by some of the drones and spawned in the outpost at anachron another "rock event" system , when I undocked from the Op I was welcomed to .....you guessed it ...PINK ROCKS !!!

It seems that ,as I have proposed before , the textures./ shaders are not loading when the pink rock issue occurs .

having checked the latest unity log I have exactly the same

""Shader 'Legacy Shaders/Lightmapped/Diffuse': fallback shader 'Legacy Shaders/Lightmapped/VertexLit' not found... "
etc as before .

This all seems related to the "loading assets " and caching issues the game is currently experiencing ( i.e invisible ships , missiles, Basestar etc ) .

I will send the latest unity log to yourselves so that you can check through it and see exactly what is happening .

[scbypwr]

any way you can get your hands on a more 'current' pc?

I am not having any issues on the main server. I can check kobol since I use the same setup and I have time today!

Is there any specifics you want me to check. I have a lolonial account...

[dalliance1]

Further to my last post , it does seem that the "assets" not loading problem has alot to do with the pink rock issue .

Again I signed into the game and spawned in anachron , as i was not seeing lots of pink rocks in the distance, as is the norm when the pink rock issue is present , I decided to do a closer inspection of the rocks , this is what I saw ....



I then jumped into fenris , and saw the following -----



HOWEVER on closer inspection of the pink rocks it was only the silver rocks that were appearing "pink " as the gold rocks were showing as they should .

So my conclusion is that the "textures / shaders " are not loading into the game for the silver rocks in this case .

Like I said this does seem to tie in with the "assets" not loading issues.


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edit -- if you look at both pics , in the first the paint on my ship is missing , then after jumping systems( pic 2 ) the paint "loads" ,
Also if you look at the second pic the planet has details even from a distance whereas this can change from system to system to the "blank " planet depending on if the "skin" for the planet loads .