Rendering Issue (Beams, Trails, Fog, Lighting)

popeeyy · April 22, 2020, 10:22pm

This is happening in my game as well, we have some beam effects for our lighting, but now it looks like large decals hanging from the ceiling. Before:

After:

144hertz · April 22, 2020, 10:44pm

(altered from my post on the other thread)

I’m also getting this problem, I have beams that simulate sun rays in some of the windows of a game I work on, and they now appear far too opaque compared to about 2 days ago.

on the left is the intended look, and on the right is how it appears now.
earlier this was only a problem in the player, but now it’s present for me in both the player and studio, as well as some strange changes in the behavior of fog. unintended side effect of the upcoming atmosphere stuff?

boatbomber · April 22, 2020, 10:50pm

I’m experiencing this too, and it’s very annoying:

The difference is huge.

Before:

After:

Ethan76167 · April 22, 2020, 10:58pm

Experiencing the same problem here to, its kinda impacted alot of my projects.

Before:

Now:

Aspa102 · April 22, 2020, 11:49pm

I did appear to have some issues with beams, but it’s mostly z fighting.

boatbomber · April 23, 2020, 1:50am

I restarted Studio and it updated, and now the lighting update that broke beams is in studio too.

At least now it looks awful consistently /s

Please fix this soon, thanks!

MallocByte · April 23, 2020, 1:52am

My fear is that they will say this is intentional with the addition of atmosphere. The problem is that they never notified developers of this. I like the new features, but it seems Roblox is ignoring the backward compatibility model in favor of just force updating systems, even if it causes issues in games that have not been updated.

Gu4rana · April 23, 2020, 2:56am

Thanks for the report. These are cosmetic issues and our team is currently looking into it.

MallocByte · April 23, 2020, 2:57am

Thank you for the swift response!

twinqle · April 23, 2020, 12:39pm

Same thing is happening to me.

Before:

After:

DataBrain · April 23, 2020, 6:36pm

This change is affecting more than just beams and trails for me, but also things like fog and the general brightness of things in the game: The most recent update is rendering everything significantly brighter

Cryoheat · April 24, 2020, 2:39am

I also notices that Ambient Occlusion got removed(it’s the drop shadow thing at corners in max graphic)

unmiss · April 24, 2020, 6:15am

I am also experiencing this issue. It has ruined the look of my game.

P.S. Might want to unmark the solution until it’s actually fixed

LaAeroooo · April 24, 2020, 10:39am

Happened to me, every beam seems to have no gradient, as well as this they seem to be pixeled? And transparency has to be set very high to achieve similar effects as seen previously.

LaAeroooo · April 24, 2020, 10:41am

Ambient occlusion seems non existant aswell, and everything seems so faded.

LaAeroooo · April 24, 2020, 10:51am

Previously there was a slight fade for the lights, now it seems to be a solid colour, Outside I also have some beam clouds which glow insanely bright now.

Nullxiety · April 25, 2020, 4:38am

Alright, so. There are 4 issues for now:

There is no Screen Space Ambient Occlusion.
Beams & Trails rendering is very odd.
Everything renders slightly brighter than before.
Ropes are now fully visible underwater for some reason.

I planned to release my game 3 days ago, but that did not happen because of these issues. They are quite important and ruining the look of the game completely.
Please fix that faster!

unmiss · April 25, 2020, 6:11am

Usually in cases like this they roll it back. I’m a bit flabbergasted that they haven done this yet, considering they’ve done it before for lesser problems.

I can’t show off any new pictures of my game to my community until this is fixed. This sucks.

MetatableIndex · April 25, 2020, 12:39pm

Adding to this list, ropes and constraints are also fully visible in fog now.

1billybob1 · April 25, 2020, 4:31pm

Title updated to better fit the issue at hand.