Weird "sunburst" Effect in Battles

**comrade_general** · 12-30-2007, 22:01

Hello everyone, been modding Alexander and all of a sudden I start seeing a weird gray sunburst thing in the battles. I've looked around and found topics about similar problems, but those were about models and bones; stuff that I haven't done, I've only been reskinning. And I see the same thing regardless of faction or units selected. One other thing I only see it when looking to the "rear" of the battlefield, no when pointed the default front view when the battle is started. Here are some pics of what I am seeing:

**Roman_Man#3** · 12-30-2007, 22:29

Thats odd, try turinng off shaders in the video options menu.

**comrade_general** · 12-30-2007, 23:14

Turned off shaders and I still get the same thing

**wlesmana** · 12-31-2007, 15:21

Replace the riders of the elephants and check if you still have that effect. To my knowledge, that kind of glitch appears only if you attached an object with too many polys to a bone. It can be fixed by giving the object a skin modifier instead of simply attaching it to a bone.

**comrade_general** · 12-31-2007, 17:56

Originally Posted by wlesmana

Replace the riders of the elephants and check if you still have that effect. To my knowledge, that kind of glitch appears only if you attached an object with too many polys to a bone. It can be fixed by giving the object a skin modifier instead of simply attaching it to a bone.

The elephants have always been there and I never saw the sunburst thing with them before. And I haven't done any modding of the elephants or their riders. I see the sunburst every battle regardless of faction or units. I haven't done any modeling, only retexturing.

**Makanyane** · 12-31-2007, 18:16

Just to help narrow down possibilities.

Did you do anything (including re-skinning) to the general's or captain's units - wondering as generals unit tends to end up at rear. Also although you haven't changed models yourself is it possible you are using one that wasn't being used before?

If all else fails can you restore vanilla units / dmb, and add back changes one by one to try and isolate problem?

**Caius** · 12-31-2007, 18:28

Maybe a video problem?

**comrade_general** · 12-31-2007, 18:56

I haven't done anything to generals, so I don't think it would be that. It seemed to come around when I added in the cilician pirates from RTW, I tried removing them but the sunburst still remains.