Fixed Octopus Bay, Martinique (Shore_6) Texture Error

[Talisman]

In Build 14 Beta 3-4

I keep getting entries in the system log for missing textures.

1) at Octopus Bay the sand has gone very dark.

2) On the world Map around Santiago, Cuba - there are small areas of black that sometimes flicker

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[Bartolomeu o Portugues]

Are you sure the problem you have is only at Octopus Bay ?

 

[Hylie Pistof]

I complained about that sand on that beach months ago when the upgraded locations were first installed and nobody listened. So I quit complaining. It has been like that for over 6 months.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

I don't remember hearing anything about the sand there. Do you remember when it got messed up? Perhaps a texture got wrongly overwritten.

These don't look missing textures though.
Those are generally bland Gray, not black.

 

[Armada]

The world map case looks like UV mapping errors. Most of the island models are just mapped from a top-down view onto the textures, so there is some stretching around the edges.
The black areas are probably where the edges are slightly off and bleed onto the black surroundings of the texture.

 

[Talisman]

Are you sure the problem you have is only at Octopus Bay ?

I can't at the moment remember where else that beach is used. - When I remember I will go and look at them.

 

[Hylie Pistof]

That beach is at Cuba and Martinique. Possibly somewhere else too.

I complained about that beach last summer when all those huge cities got added.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

I complained about that beach last summer when all those huge cities got added.

I must have missed it inbetween the other concerns.
Next week I'll be near my full game archive again. Remind me then and I'll see if any textures got overwritten that should be restored.

 

[Talisman]

That beach is at Cuba and Martinique. Possibly somewhere else too.

Have checked Muscetto Cove , Antigua & Bahia de San Antinio, Cuba - both use the same beach as Octopus Bay - the same dark areas are there.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Confirmed by checking the location model with GM Viewer.
It only uses 4 textures so if the problem wasn't there before, it must be one of those.
My suspicion is on "BumpDust.tga.tx" because that was edited in 2011 and is therefore much newer than the game itself.

If anyone has access to Beta 3.2 or earlier, please take that file and put it in Beta 3.4 and see if that makes a difference.
I would do it myself, but I won't be near my game archive until somewhere next week.

 

[Jack Rackham]

It was Shore05_dust.tga that was corrupt. Here's an old one that works.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Thanks for that, @Jack Rackham!

Do you have any clue how that happened? And did something else get messed up in return now?

 

[Jack Rackham]

No idea when that file was changed. Have only tested Octupus Bay so I don't know if anyhting else
got wrong. If that happens we can use 2 texture files.

 

[Jack Rackham]

This bug could have occured when importing models (and their textures) from AOP/COAS (most likely).
They can have a file with the same name but a little different

Something similar happened to me with weapons. The files en2.tga en3.tga are a result of that in ammo folder.