[General] Strange map stranparency bug

[stan0033]

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This is a screenshot of my map that I worked on today. Now that I opened it I noticed this thing I don't know if it's a bug or something I accidentally activated. As you can see the terrain and the doodads are transparent and yo ucan see what's below. Do you know how this can be fixed?

 

[andreasaspenberg]

i suggest testing it inside the game and see what happens there.

 

[jonhysone]

There is a tab called "View" inside the editor , and it has some options. Every option has a hotkey, so I guess you pressed some hotkey wrongly.

I suggest you check and uncheck every option under that tab 'til you know which option was the issue.

 

[stan0033]

This tab contains nothing of this kind. Also, I don't touch anything in it, so the problem is not from there. I use newgen. Saved the map and when loaded again transperancy...
Ingame is normal. Not in the editor.

 

[KILLCIDE]

The image link is broken. However, johnysone may have suggested your solution. I've accidently pushed the hotkey for making terrain + doodads no longer visibile. Try pushing Ctrl + T and Ctrl + D until you return to normal.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Image not available.

 

[stan0033]

here is another scr

these ctl+D, ctrl+T don't help. It's some annoying bug that appeares randomly so when this happens I search for older version of the file of the map. I want to beable to fix this. Again - NewGen.

EditL I found that when I reload the map it disappears.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Try removing the fog. You probably have too many transparent layers visible at any given pixel causing some to be ignored. It might also be the scene complexity is too high.

 

[stan0033]

It happened again. I removed the fog and this is a screenshot from low level terrain.

 

[Dr Super Good]

What appears to be happening is that the Z depth test for geometry occlusion is not working properly. Specifically it is showing you geometry that is meant to be occluded by other geometry. The units appear rendered in front of the doodads (or destructibles?) and lower cliff levels are rendered in front of higher cliff levels.

When testing the map I do not suffer the problem. As such it is likely related to your graphic settings or graphic driver. Here is proof of what it looks like to me.

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Try reinstalling your graphic card drivers. Especially make sure it is a clean install. It is possible some optimization has gone crazy disabling Z depth testing which is causing the out of order geometry.

Hopefully it is software related. This could also be signs of a failing GPU in that it no longer is working as expected (Z depth test logic is no longer working) but for now let us not consider this.

Knowing what brand of graphic card you use would be useful. NVidia cards (like what I used for the image) should not produce these artefacts. AMD should also not produce such artefacts but they occasionally have bad drivers that do. Intel graphics are well known to have strange visual artefacts so it might just be a compatibility problem between WC3 and the Intel graphic accelerator (not CPU part) you use.