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Clear Shields
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2 Mar, 2023 @ 8:36pm
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Clear Shields

Description
Description
Alters the shield visuals to be clearer and easier to see through, including removing the strange displacement effect, reducing the shimmer and giving it a neutral colour.

Some shader calculations are removed unlike the previous clear shield-style mods which altered the final values. You may have marginally improved GPU performance with larger vessels.

The shields are on in the images, if you open them you'll faintly see the outlines. They're slightly more obvious when you're in-game.

If you want vanilla's blue shields but with the other changes from this mod:
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2947145915

Changes
  • Removes the blue tint
  • Removes the lighting effect on shield "blocks" which made them look like separate cubes.
  • Tones down the shimmering effect to 20% of normal.
  • Removes the chromatic aberration
  • Removes the 'distorted colour' effect, it made shields look whiter in certain areas, this is unnecessary with statically uncoloured shields used here.
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Game Files Modified:
For other modders mostly, may help with compatibility questions. If another mod overwrites any of the functions or files listed below, this mod or the other mod, may not work.
Overwrites shaders\blocks\shield.frag Overwrites shaders\blocks\shieldgone.frag
11 Comments
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hardlinephate 24 Apr @ 11:39am 
Thanking you
Druark  [author] 23 Apr @ 8:57am 
@a.j.groves53
You're probably better off asking on the forum for that or checking in-game server populations. I generally play on a private modded server with 2-6 friends myself.
hardlinephate 23 Apr @ 8:42am 
Thanking you. Will try it later when I get home.
Fearly new to the game. Is there any good servers to join?
Druark  [author] 22 Apr @ 8:00am 
@a.j.groves53
Its actually one of the ships in the trailers. I used one of the dev commands to spawn it, I think it's bigShip or something but you can get a fanmade replica on the workshop here:
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1694896927
or the original trailer ship here:
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=929379327
hardlinephate 21 Apr @ 7:38am 
The ship in the image looks amazing. Is it on the workshop. Would love to play using it.
Druark  [author] 18 Mar @ 12:20pm 
@wildbill
I've just had two more people test it for me, in addition to myself, and none of us have this problem.

I'd suggest unsubbing from the mod, verifying your game files and then resubbing to ensure you're up to date and don't have any corrupt/out of date files somehow.

Ensure you test it without any mods too, as you may have a conflict somewhere.
wildbill 15 Mar @ 9:51am 
Druark, all the shields flare up at the same time, both friendlies and enemies. And it seems to happen in every sector. Especially in combat.

What I meant by who's side their on, I once fired at one of my ships because I couldn't make out it's shape.

Also, I only have this mod active, no others. I just downloaded Shieldy MK II to try. Here's hoping.
Druark  [author] 14 Mar @ 3:46pm 
@wildbill
I just tested it in a new creative save and a few months ago when I played a full play through with it. It works fine for me so I'll need more info.

Any particular regions/skyboxes you notice the issue or is it everywhere/all the time?
Do you have any other mods enabled? This only modifies two files but if you have any big overhaul mods they may edit one/both files or have another conflict.

Also, what do you mean you can't tell whose side they're on? Shields are all the same colour in basegame, there isn't any team-coloured shields.
wildbill 14 Mar @ 3:11pm 
Hi, great mod, when it works. After adding it I checked the box and the mod worked on the next round I played. After that, nothing. Shields are blinding me. In fact, sometimes when the shields of my ships glow so much, I can't tell whose side they're on.

Anything I'm missint?
Druark  [author] 15 Jan @ 2:47pm 
Should be!

The shield shader rarely if ever gets touched by updates and even if it did, mine should just overwrite it anyway.