Mesh deformation breaking lighting - texture snapping between meshes' bones

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#1

I’ve been experiencing an issue where when changing the surface normal of the texture, the texture would seemingly not fade between one normal and another - by normal I am referring to the orientation of the bones in the deformed mesh.
Here is the issue showcased:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/497905299630456834/817132661839101962/hfFpQtikiI.mp4
Each bone is applied on every vertex of the mesh, and what I am doing to get the “ocean” is apply the gerstner waves formula to each bone.
The arrows are the visualized CFrames of each bone (for performance purposes I only render those close to the camera), showcasing that there doesn’t seem to be anything wrong with the CFrame’s being set. I have also verified that there are no NaN values.

The only important piece of code is this (Data[3] being the bone):
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Code in text-form 
					if (CenterCF.Position - WorldPos).Magnitude < 45 then
						Gizmo:DrawArrow(WorldPos, WorldPos + Normal)
					end

					Data[3].WorldCFrame = CFrame.lookAt(WorldPos, WorldPos + Normal)

I’ve already tried a lot of solutions to this such as disabling CastShadow (I am using Future lighting technology), but the only solution currently is to only edit WorldPosition and not touch the orientation - I don’t want to do that because the mesh would reflect lighting weirdly.
Are there any solutions to this, or is this a Roblox bug? Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
cc @vrtblox @zeuxcg

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#2

Here is the ocean with just a grid TextureId, so I’m not inclined to believe that this is a UV / texture error:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/497905299630456834/817150823359447080/mG1N1gfdzT.mp4

#3

Have you tried disabling global shadows? If not try it, I think that might be causing this weird effect.

Another thing you can try is setting the clock time more onto mid day.

This is a bold assumption.

#4

Already tried disabling every shadow setting, including even setting the technology to compatibility. Either way, according to a person I’ve inquired about, Future lighting does not cast shadows upon itself

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#5

My bad I skipped the last paragraph without noticing.

#6

Updated title to be more fitting, since this is an issue with lighting and not the texture itself. Still no clue on what is going on sadly :confused:

#7

Ever since I made my wave effect local I’ve been having the same issue, so it’s not just you.
https://streamable.com/a5m5qj

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#8

Well managed to fix it by disabling Cast Shadow. I don’t know if it will help you since I never messed the orientation but that’s all I got.

#9

Thank you for the response, but my issue stems from rotating the bones-Editing just the position works fine. CastShadow doesn’t affect anything from my experiments