PC foliage Transparency Fix

#9

Thats the transparency i’m talking about. Its got a noise pattern to it but its obviously transparent.
The leaves are basically on the ground while I was down and it obstructed the camera so the engine made it transparent. Its like this throughout the game from start to finish.
Is it not like this on your PC too?

I was looking at a PS5 video capture the other day and they did not have this transparent noise effect whatsoever. The camera had leaves up close all around it.

This is PS5. I kind of want to match the graphics to it:

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#10

This one isn’t my screenshot but you can see this effect on the trees at a certain distance directly left of our floating gentleman. Its an odd granuallar pixellation to it. My guess is that antialiasing isn’t working properly and somehow a second image is supposed to blend into the noise pattern to make it one co-hesive image but the engine is stopping it.

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#11

Well I guess it time to join us then mass

#12

what you are talking about there isnt procedural textures its occlusion.

" Occlusion Culling is a feature that disables rendering of objects when they are not currently seen by the camera because they are obscured ( occluded ) by other objects."

Procedural textures would be tectures generated by a procedure or algorythm of some kind. IE to reduce the work of an artist by making it automated.

Neither of this is responsible for the transparency effect, its simply an art/design decision to make it look like that. it could be totally invisible if they desired.

I personally dont mind the effect. As for in the distance thats a different issue, thats more to save on performance instead of rendering a 100% accurate object/texture you can render a more simplified version based on a LOD system.

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#13

ok so i’m not going crazy. You guys have it too. It has its benefits over the ps5 where it either is not used or is done differently. At least you can see through leaves which makes it less frustrating.

#14

Everyone has it lmao… i personally do mind it a lot… i wish they left it as it is and not make it transparent… this just shows how like the devs didnt want to like spent time to work on details in the game i guess…

#15

Btw i found more material to make my target isolation re-worked XD

also im gonna keep telling peeps… predators 2010 was a decent af movie that was focusing more on predator culture and pure hunt survival vibes, got close to first predator 1987 movie…

but it gave us more like predator tech

#16

Well if I had the option to turn it off, i would definitely play with it to see what I like to see.

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#17

Have a look around “dithered transparency mask” or similar for UE4 and see if you can uncover some console variables to alter it via config/INI

#18

foliage.DitheredLOD If greater than zero, dithered LOD is used, otherwise popping LOD is used.

maybe try that one.

foliage.DitheredLOD=0

place that in the gameusersetting.ini and game.ini and create one called engine.ini and in each file under a header called [/script/engine.renderersettings]

Hmm, it may not be under renderersettings, just in case put it also in each file under a heading called [SystemSettings] just to be sure and a heading called [/Script/Engine.GameUserSettings]

it will work in one of those just not sure wich. so put it in all of em :P

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#19

although i dont think that its that to be honest but cant hurt to test it

This is more a dithered transparency. but it may have an affect on the distance dithering you are talking about

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#20

Btw apperently game runs better in fullscreen mode rather than windowed fullscreen… not sure why cause all games run for me about the same between these modes…

I lose about 40 fps when going from epic to cinematic lmao tho… like the shadow quality is the main issue i recken with game optimizations.

#21

Yeah cinematic is supposed to be used for things like cut scenes and stuff, like the main menu scene and FMVs. The reason they added it is just some future / forward thinking. in a year or so more then GPUS wont have a problem runing it 4k in cinematic.

Fullscreen runs slightly better because it has exclusive acontrol over the GPU and other stuff behind it is put to sleep. in windowed mode / of boarderless window etc the background stuff like windows / taskbar etc is still there in the background ready for if needed.

The downside of exclusive fullscreen is that it takes longer to switch apps and screen can flicker etc depending on resolution etc.

Good thing about PC is you can tweak the settings. You could use 80% render resolution for example and that would gain a lot of FPS or you could run 150% render scale and look more like 4k even if you dont have a 4k display… and it looks a LOT better than Nvidia DSR (Not DLSS, thats different) for example that makes everything look blury AF

#22

I wish they added like a render scale for PC honestly, most games have this and its like this manual RTX DLSS for those who dont have it… or they can even add NVIDIA DLSS in the game for those who want more efficient way of render scale and let AI make it look better for giving more FPS…

for me i prefer at least 100 fps in these types of games and ideally 120 fps… realistically 160 fps is like the most ideal but i doubt it lol… with DLSS it may be possible tho to get that fps if u like play 720p but the AI makes it 1080p and u get like 160 fps on like adjusted settings…

#23

r.ScreenPercentage=

thats the render scale variable. just put whatever % of your actual ingame res u want.

#24

Which resolution looks as 1080p but gives u most fps ?

Would it be 80%

#25

well for more FPS u want to lower it but it will start to look less crisp. wouldnt go less than 80%

It depends on ur actual res. are u using 1440p?

#26

Nah 1080p 240hz

#27

well you cant get a 1080p like image by lowering it, but you can get more performance. Its just a trade off. best to experiment and see what looks and performs to your liking

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there are few things that make me curious what they are lol…