Alpha Layering no longer appears to be working correctly..

[Krisan]

This issue cropped up in a patch, although I'm afraid I don't know which one exactly.. For some reason when two alpha-mapped textures are layered on top of one another, something weird happens and they kind of cancel one another out - or rather only one of the two textures is ever being rendered at least.

Here's an example of what I mean.. I'll use a pair of glasses to demonstrate, as that's the easiest way to show you what's wrong.

This is how my character used to look ingame:
http://i650.photobucket.com/albums/u...9-08-14-09.png

And this is how he looks now:
http://i650.photobucket.com/albums/u...3-17-51-00.png

You'll note that originally you could see the bangs of his hair hanging over his glasses, whereas now.. The lenses of his glasses appear to literally skewer off his hair at the frames edge. It's very odd looking.. Downright bizarre honestly, and it makes glasses look rather unattractive on anyone with longer hair.

This issue isn't just isolated to glasses though:
http://i650.photobucket.com/albums/u...3-23-50-97.png

If you look here, you'll notice a weird fuzziness effect around the edges of her bangs, which blurs out her eyebrow behind them.. Furthermore the alpha of her hair somehow "clips" into her eyelashes, leaving a kind of hole there.. The hair hanging down the side of her face also looks a little weird too..

I at first thought this might be a driver issue that cropped up recently with nVidia, but I've confirmed it happens to a friend of mine on older drivers, and have in fact downgraded my drivers in an attempt to resolve this.. Nothing seems to work.


My Specs for Reference~

CPU: Intel Core i7 950
RAM: 8GB DDR3
GPU: nVidia Geforce GTX 465
GPU Driver: Official 267.24

[Luxamar]

I am the person that helped Krisan test this bug. My driver version is 260.99 and my specs are nearly identical to his.

[Sovereign]

I have the same issue on my machine, and I am using an ATI Radeon 5770 with Catalyst version 11.2 (latest AMD driver version as of this post). If it helps, I'm also running an AMD Phenom II x4 965, and 4GB DDR3RAM.

[Chrees]

I've noticed this as well. Where my hair meets my eyebrows, there's some sort of "padding" that doesn't let them touch.

Another strange thing I've noticed is a series of white opaque dots forming a horizontal oval around my character's head. At first I thought I was going crazy, but other people in my linkshell have noticed the same thing. It can be a bit hard to see, but face a dark wall, move the camera a bit and you'll see what I'm talking about.

[Krisan]

I have a sneaking suspicion this snuck its way into the game after they implemented headgear display toggling.. I may be wrong though, as there was a fairly lengthy period where I simply wasn't playing the game much at all, and when I was playing I may have just simply not noticed this. Anyone have any idea when exactly this first appeared?

[Xophious]

Hey all!

Thank you for taking the time to give us the details of the issue! We will be forwarding the concern so it can be investigated, to try and get it resolved. If any updates come up while it is being looked into, it will be posted within the forum. Thanks again!