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[champi1986]

Hello, I've copied (overwriting the existing surface) a new surface for a 3D Stadium, but it have like a mirror effect in the middle of the court. I don´t know why happens this and I've touched every .ini of the surfaces, but the effect doesn't disappear, any idea?

[manutoo]

champi1986,
did you change the normal map or the metallic map ?
If you changed only the color map, it's very strange...

[champi1986]

No, the only thing I've changed are the files .png AO_Blue_in and AO_Blue_out, overwriting the original files. I put the same resolution, 2048x2048, but the line is always there.



When I change the surface.ini file and I change the line "MaterialIn" by "Material" and "MaterialOut" by "Material", the surface looks like this.



The line disappears, but the color change... It have less color and intensity.

[manutoo]

champi1986,
I just noticed you try to change an existing Mod, right ?

If you get the same issue with the game unmodded (ie: only modded by your surface), you can send me your surface's .ini & textures, but I won't look into an issue that may be created by the setting of another Mod.

[champi1986]

Yes, I'm working on XKT patch.

Well, I've copied the three folders of surfaces to the TE4 folder and I've loaded the default profile, the only modification are these three folders, and the line still appears.


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EDIT: Good news, I've solved the problem, I'll try to explain how in case anyone has the same problem. If you take an image and replace it, the line appears, but if you modify that image by removing half of it and duplicating the remaining half and inverting it horizontally, the line disappears... I don't know if I explained it correctly...

[manutoo]

champi1986,
could you send me the files to reproduce the issue on my PC ? (without using the XKT Mod, only the unmodded game)
Like this, I should be able to pinpoint its cause.

[champi1986]

Yes, of course, but I need you to be a little more specific, what files exactly? TE4 folder with the surfaces folders or without them?

[manutoo]

champi1986,
I need the minimal possible number of files that still reproduce the issue, so I guess the texture and maybe a Stadium.ini, and everything in the correct folder so I just it in my Mods folder and see the issue when I launch the game with that surface.

[champi1986]

Hi Manutoo, here you have the files.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/z1e1916b ... e.rar/file

There are four folders (stadium, surface, surfacetexture and surfacematerials), but all of them have only one file by folder, Australian Open, I hope that it's ok.

[manutoo]

champi1986,
here are the files you sent to me in action ; it's blue not green and there's no line in the middle : https://imgur.com/a/WUTqZDH .

[champi1986]

Ups, sorry, I uploaded the files with the default surface texture. Now it should be ok.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/mg7gc6it ... 2.rar/file

[manutoo]

champi1986,
your texture doesn't repeat seamlessly ; here, I just offsetted it so the edges are in the middle and we clearly see the seam : https://imgur.com/a/7rF0PyR

[champi1986]

Aha, so, if I undestand, to the texture works perfectly it needs repeat perfectly the left half in the right half, no? Because if I take a normal image witout moddify the line appears in the half of the court.

[manutoo]

champi1986,
yes, you have to make it seamless. I think there have been free tools for that for a few years now, but I'm not sure...

[champi1986]

Perfect, more or less that was what I did at the end and the surface worked, but now I know at 100% that it worked by that.

The next time I know what I have to do from the beggining.

Thank you for your help.