Comments - AlleLeukeNamenZijnOp

i installed the dlc before installing the mod.
made some shots

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it looks pretty lowres, don't know what went wrong uploading the pics... it is/was in 1080p :S

that is if your talking about antaris who posted some screenshots of texture issues in bdts dlc.
his first screenshot shows pressly on the normandy however with the same bug he shows on shots of the dlc so i guess something went wrong with his install

did you follow ALL instructions? ;)
what worked for me was :
installing mod to temp dir and manually drag and replace files in mass effect dir, both the 9 part mod and shadow fix.
then i ran the game to change graphics settings and make bioengine.ini.
then run masseffectconfig to delete shader cache and set graphics i couldn't set ingame.
then make the bioengine.ini tweaks and set it to read-only.
apply laa to masseffect.exe and check size of cookedpc if it is 20gb.

maybe if all fails, delete you bioengine.ini, run game to recreate it and then redo the tweaks and settings

just for information, besides the 2 pinnacle bugs i had, my dlc's looked good.
I guess i had hd textures where they shared them with main game as you didn't retexture dlc, right?
I definitely did not have those horrible seams on the head like that guy on SBN has in his screenshots :)

Great news you're planning on doing me2 aswell :)

did you by chance also change the generic asari eyes?
can anyone tell me how they look in vanilla game?
the eyes of liara and benezia look normal but all the generic asari i see on the citadel have silver eyes like riddick's eyeshine

heya cdamjc,

i was trying to see if you had a screenshot put up of a generic asari.
i noticed that ingame liara and benezia have normal eyes while all generic asari seem to have "silver" eyes... kinda like the eyeshine of riddick :)
is that something you altered aswell?

don't be too quick removing files from your mod ;)
i've got the feeling that with the latest manual install some other things like shadows etc look better than with the auto-install so maybe besides the 2 pinnacle bugs there were other problems aswell that i just didn't notice.

that could mean that the 50% of people whose auto-install does seemingly work might just not notice it didn't install correctly

ok cdamjc, i wanted to try and find the responsible files for the 2 pinnacle bugs but i now ended up manually installing your entire mod... without the bugs appearing :)
So it seems your files are ok but your auto-install is doing something strange when installing to mass effect directory directly...

installing to temp folder and copy-paste-overwrite all seems to work.

for the record, i don't have me installed in any directory with admin restrictions... it's in it's own custom games folder

went ahead and installed the engine and shader folders aswell but without overwriting and the planet and volcano lvl still look normal

so yeah, if i install the mod without the engine folder and the shaders both the planet and the volcano ground look normal.
Is this enhough for you to pinpoint the culprit?
Otherwise i could try to determine which one is the problem by process of elimination :)

Or should i install those folders aswell and simply not replace files when asked?
By leaving those folders out of install i figure i'm missing quite some improvements your mod gives...

you're right... the checkers pattern is also there in a vanilla game freshly installed.
the black square planet and the pink volcano lvl ground aat pinnacle however were normal in vanilla and became wrong again after installing the mod.
instructions are followed: 20gb cookedpc, laa applied, bioengine.ini changes made and set to read-only after deleting shader chache.

sys specs are:
windows 7 64bit
amd phenom II x4 3,2ghz
8gb 1333 ram
ati radeon hd 4870 1gb ddr5
(maybe some of the glitches and crashes people have are a ati vs nvidia thing?)

I may have found something else...

http: //www .freeimagehosting.net/1vs2k (without the spaces, i can't post links yet)

it looks like a light effect not being applied to all textures creating a sort of checkers pattern :)
this is the missing survey team digsite on trebin btw

if i understand right you also made changes to the lighting?
maybe it's not the texture of the planet but the effect of lighting from the sun behind it not showing right?
just throwing ideas around... i'm no techie :)