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High - critical but workarounds are available, important feature not working as expected, frequent enough to impact production
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Bug description: When trying to prevent artifacts in my ambient occlusion texture I have no success using the QUALITYHIGH flag in the xml of my COMP texture, there is no difference.
The SDK documentation describes this for my exact scenario and shows screenshots of the improved AO texture with the flag in use.
To be sure I have deleted the old package to do a clean rebuild and restarted the sim, no difference. The pictures below show the entry in the texture xml, the AO inside the sim WITH flag in use and finally the AO in substance.
If I havent missed anything this leads me to the conclusion that the flag might currently be broken and is not working with AO maps.
After having done a few exports now I would like to report the following.
I had one project build after which the flag was visually not applied, I have checked if it was still set in blender and yes it was. So something must have went wrong elsewhere, maybe in the build or the rendering. Is that a known issue? I will keep watching it.
Edit (one day later):
The same thing has happened again last evening. This time I was able to narrow it down. No matter how many times I tried to build, the flag was not visually applied. A sim restart did not change it either. Only solution was a fresh blender export.
So it seems that every few blender exports the flags are not exported properly. This should be investigated.
@Boris did you see my last message? I am runnig into the blender export issue every two to three exports, so it should not be considered as fixed
just wanted to make sure youve seen that
I´ve had some trouble with the latest blender exporter. My export settings had been lost. Luckily my presets, export path etc. were still there. I had the box ticked which is supposed to save the export settings but with this new version it has not worked. The earlier versions of the 24 exporter did not have this issue if I remember correctly. Maybe you can pass that information on so it can hopefully be avoided in the future. Doing the settings again in all my blend files is quite a task.
I have now done a few exports without issues, however I would like to test it a few days before giving you a final answer.
I just noticed that due to loosing my export settings with the latest exporter, my textures had not been exporting. The setting keep original was activated. This lead me to believe that the problem is solved.
However, now that the textures are being exported again, the problem is back as it used to be. No difference with the latest exporter.
