water

[Shotalot]

loving the game so far, but the water seems to be a bright white colour,is there a fix for this?

[Vylun]

Thanks! Something's happened to the way the water is rendered after we upgraded to a new version of our engine. Our programmer has been working hard on it and hopefully we'll have a fix out in not too long :)

What's most difficult about it is that it looks fine in preview, but becomes white after building the game. Which takes a while.

[Shotalot]

ok thank you for your quick response.

[treahnurb]

really looking forwards to a fix. It really destroys the atmo , specially the one with Nykken :(

[owowg]

Three months later, still not fixed. I finished the game today and this bug really spoiled the mood of the end scene.

[Vylun]

We’re still not able to make it look good when building the game yet. It’s a huge issue that needs changes / fixes in all areas of the game and shader itself and since it looks good in engine, but not in the actual game it is very difficult to pinpoint the problem and make it look any better than it does now.

We also have our own business matters taking a lot of time that we need to take care of first. Sadly, we simply can’t afford to frequently support the game at the moment, so updates will come a little now then.

[MrMoosehead]

Wow. November of 2017? It's December of 2018 and there's still no fix to the water, running everything on highest setting and everything looks beautiful except the water. It ruins the mood of the game and completely takes me out of the experience, especially when the water creature was supposed to make it's freaky appearance it looked like it was a mouldy Oreo swimming around in milk. Disappointed.

[Vylun]

It's very sad, I'm the only one left in the company now (as an artist) and with no programmers able to fix it.

And don't think we didn't try to fix it at some point. The shader broke after a Unity update making the water unable to reflect the surroundings properly. It looks correct in the editor, but turns white after building the game for several hours each time. That's a pretty tedious way to find the cause of the issue.

Now I've gone over to develop in Unreal instead where I could have fixed the issue, but I can't code Unity shaders unfortunately.

[mr_myke]

The willingness to respond by the developer is impressive, I must say. But...the situation that Voden is forced to convey is depressing. I was considering purchasing, then found the water issue mentioned in a review, and followed to this unfortunate point. Looks like the water is going to remain broken. Since a big part of my consideration was the graphic quality of this kind of game, I will probably pass...until we hit the 90% discount point. Thanks for the candor, Voden, regardless. Impressive attention, and understandable situation.

[MrMoosehead]

^^^^Yes.

[Vylun]

That's also understandable. Thanks for the kind words anyway!

I wish there was more I could do. The situation is quite depressing.