Sun texture problem

[wiekniera]

Guys,
Need help here..what's happen to this sun texture ? (white box square)
Im still using vanilla CFS3 without ETO expansion as i just reinstalling back my CFS3 after a huge data loss again. Using all ankor shaders version still got the same thing happen. Neverseen like this before
Can anyone point me how to fix this?
Thanks guys

[MajorMagee]

I would start by going through the suneffect.xml and making sure I have all of the dds files it references.

[wiekniera]

yes you're right major, i've suneffect 2015 date which i dont have some of them like sun_glare_*.dds and the sun name is using sun_main.dds which i change it to sun.dds.

xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SunEffect OcclusionSize="0.1">
<EnvironmentMap SunAngle="-3.0"/>
<SunGlare Size="2.5" Location="1.00" Intensity="0.4" Red="255" Green="255" Blue="204" Texture="sun_glare_d.dds" u1="0.0" v1="0.0" u2="1.0" v2="1.0" UpAlign="1"/>
<SunGlare Size="0.075" Location="0.75" Intensity="0.20" Red="255" Green="0" Blue="255" Texture="sun_glare_d.dds" u1="0.0" v1="0.0" u2="1.0" v2="1.0" UpAlign="1"/>
<SunGlare Size="0.0625" Location="0.70" Intensity="0.20" Red="0" Green="0" Blue="255" Texture="sun_glare_c.dds" u1="0.0" v1="0.0" u2="1.0" v2="1.0" UpAlign="1"/>
<SunGlare Size="0.050" Location="0.65" Intensity="0.20" Red="0" Green="255" Blue="0" Texture="sun_glare_b.dds" u1="0.0" v1="0.0" u2="1.0" v2="1.0" UpAlign="1"/>
<SunGlare Size="0.0375" Location="0.60" Intensity="0.20" Red="255" Green="0" Blue="0" Texture="sun_glare_a.dds" u1="0.0" v1="0.0" u2="1.0" v2="1.0" UpAlign="1"/>
<SunImage Texture="sun.dds" Size="0.02" BlendMode="1"/>
<Corona Texture="corona1.dds" Size="0.0225" BlendMode="1" UpAlign="1"/>

Now i don't know where can i get those "Sun_glare_*.dds" ? or which file that i might can substitute them?

[MajorMagee]

They should be in AnKors_Shaders_17_Jan_2018.zip, in the Weather Effects folder.

[mongoose]

If these don't work for you, I have some older ones which seem to work for me. I had trouble with the Ankor ones, but that's probably just me!

[wiekniera]

got it..thanks major will check it

Thanks mongoose..will try ankor 2018 first

[wiekniera]

@majormagee
I just found the white square box still exist, thought it's already gone with ankor 2018 files. Im still using vanila cfs3 installation without ETO expansion, would you please re-check it major? i've checked the suneffect.xml and seems all files are correct.

[MajorMagee]

Other than deleting sun.dds (by renaming it temporarily) or changing BlendMode="1" to BlendMode="0" I can't get anything to look like that.

[wiekniera]

@Majormagee
could it be cause by shader.xml ? mine is outdate 2002, do you have the newest shader.xml major?

[alcanallen]

Strange one,iv`e had a square moon now a square sun,could it be round illuminated objects suffer from some gremlin or other,there must be an answer to this.
alcanallen.