[ FF7 ] Shadow Flare has an incorrect rendering between PC and PSX

[DLPB2]

Issue: Shadow Flare (for example) is broken and always has been. An exception may be needed to fix. It's even worse with ffnx than default Aali.

This may be why:

"Alpha blending transparency is broken. The issue is that the PC renderer has two different alpha values (vertex alpha, texture alpha) and the game doesn't specify which one to use (AFAIK), so, sometimes, the correct thing to do is to just use texture alpha, sometimes vertex alpha, and, sometimes, the two should be combined to produce the correct result. The way it works now (with the Custom Driver) is correct most of the time, but not always." - Aali

PSX:

PC:

[julianxhokaxhiu]

Thanks for the report, have you got a save that I can use to replicate the issue and can you please share some steps on how to reproduce? This would be really appreciated. I'll look into this but I can't promise any ETA.

[DLPB2]

You can reproduce it just by using the enemy skill Shadow Flare. It will always come out with the wrong colours. We've verified it isn't the texture file.

[julianxhokaxhiu]

Were you able to find at least a lead around this? I did try to check via RenderDoc but I couldn't find anything strange being done in the pipeline. Should be a deep buried bug in the engine code, as always...

[DLPB2]

No idea what causes it or anything else... it's likely entirely graphics related

[julianxhokaxhiu]

Do you have an idea at which address is this effect being called in the exe? I might have a solution but I need to double check how the blending is set for this texture.