Dissappearing playermodels

Discussion in 'Support' started by Sprayer2708, May 21, 2012.

  1. Sprayer2708

    Sprayer2708 Member

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    I often can't see the models of other players anymore, just their weapons. I know others had that issue as well. Rejoining server dependably fixes that. Sometimes that player changing class or respawning or getting revived fixes it, but not dependably. I'm using no custom stuff. Last time it happened was on vipers, I think it also happened on EPIC, not sure though.
     
  2. Trickster

    Trickster Retired Developer

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    It's a source bug I think, I've had it happen in CS:S a few times, and I've heard of people getting in TF2, though it might not happen since those 2 games got ported to a newer version of source. Either way, no-one knows why, no-one knows how to fix it.
     
  3. complete_

    complete_ lamer

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    its happening to me alot more recently
     
  4. Grantrithor

    Grantrithor Member

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    This is a very common bug in battlegrounds 2, the remedy is to open dev console, type "record 1" then "stop" and it will reload all of the models.
     
  5. ViroMan

    ViroMan Black Hole (*sniff*) Bully

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    The only fix I can think of is a model cache check on a few models once every few minutes. Not sure how much pain that would be to code and how much stress it would cause in game and that only works if it is the model that gets corrupted or removed somehow.
     
  6. D.D.D. Destroyer

    D.D.D. Destroyer Member Staff Member Moderator

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    Band-aid solution: Make weapon models player entity-sized boxes for easy spotting. No longer will you need to worry about player models. Until weapon models break.
     
  7. Trickster

    Trickster Retired Developer

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    Plaster (not fucking band-aid) solution: Leave it. It barely ever happens.
     
  8. -Mayama-

    -Mayama- MANLY MAN BITCH

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    It happens when u minimize the game
     
  9. Reznov

    Reznov Member

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    Fix: Type "retry" in console if models dissapear.

    And yes it happens in all HL2 games, even TF2. Like Mayama said it happens when yoz minimize the game via AltTab. For some reason hl2.exe isn't able to stay stable while minimized yet other games work fine minimized.
     
  10. Sprayer2708

    Sprayer2708 Member

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    I dont minimize the game, since trickster told me how, I do use windowed and nobordered.
     
  11. Trickster

    Trickster Retired Developer

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    Yeah, since the orangebox port a few years ago, no-one should be playing fullscreen.
     
  12. w00kie

    w00kie Mustachioed Mexican

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    The only slight downside when running -windowed -noborder is that you can't change the brightness ingame anymore.
     
  13. Sprayer2708

    Sprayer2708 Member

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    Why would you do that?
     
  14. Trickster

    Trickster Retired Developer

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    So you can see people better. I must admit I've wanted to be able to touch up the brightness, and it's especially noticeable on non-peasant tier monitors with a high contrast ratio.
     
  15. w00kie

    w00kie Mustachioed Mexican

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    mine is too high for some maps, bush looks like the textures are glowing. I don't know, what would be the proper way to adjust brightness in window mode?
     
  16. Candles

    Candles CAPTAIN CANDLES, DUN DUN DUN, DUN DUN DUN DUN.

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    Do you have Bloom or HDR enabled by any chance?
     
  17. flasche

    flasche Member Staff Member Moderator

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    graphic card controll center thingy maybe? usually you have brightness, saturation and thelike settings for 3d accelerated applications ...
     
  18. w00kie

    w00kie Mustachioed Mexican

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    this.
    does anybody have a good list of all those bloom and hdr scaling commands?


    @flasche: Nvidia only lets you change gamma and color for desktop (not for every 3d application) and I got to leave it at "applications control color settings themselves", outherwise my second monitor (old 17" Philips) bugs out.
     
    Last edited: May 28, 2012
  19. Trickster

    Trickster Retired Developer

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    Something like mat_bloomscale_factor or someshit.
     

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