Shroud of Darkness (SoD) visible terrain and territory lines

[Langbart]

An issue was reported via IRC 0ad-dev ​28/May/22

07:09 < Freagarach_afk> No, that I see the terrain and territory lines in SoD.
07:11 < Freagarach_afk> It seems it depends on the map also.
07:11 < Freagarach_afk> With some terrains it is more visible.

GL ARB Smoothlos=true Add to surexpose to make it more visible. Before reveal map After reveal map

to reproduce

• Switch to GL ARB backend
• Restart the Game (Make Sure Smoothlos is on)
• Open Acropolis bay,
• move around and notice everything is black.
• Open the dev overlay
• Reveal Map, and hide it again.
• move around and notice everything is still slightly visible.

bisect

Was likely triggered after the LOS changes. [26906]

Note: macOS - [26908] I could not reproduce the problem and only created the ticket so that it would not be forgotten. see comment:5:ticket:6546

possible solution

Revert the default setting for smoothlos back to false.

reproducible

Adding smoothlos = "true" to the user.cfg file and testing on older versions. The problem could be reproduced up to Alpha XVI - Patañjali [15148]. Below that I have not tested.

[Langbart]

Followed the instructions but can't reproduce the problem. Set the exposure high on the display, but everything is nice and black on my end.

[Stan]

Better screen contrast on a mac screen maybe.

[Langbart]

That's it. I can't see it in the active game window, but when I take a screenshot and play with the exposure and contrast, the problem becomes visible to me too.

[Langbart]

reproducible section added