Vegetation is black

[DisGuy06]

Description of Issue

All of the vegetation is black and the water is an odd colour

MapBug Coordinates

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I'm on a MacBook pro with an M1 chip It is not in one specific area it is throughout the whole map, all of the vegetation is usually very black or an unusually dark colour. The water is also strangely dark. This makes seeing in the game very difficult and is quite obnoxious. The only "vegetation" that is not black is the low grass and the objects that are interactive. I have tried playing single-player, multiplayer and on community servers and always get the same issue. It first showed up a few weeks ago and it has been the same ever since, nothing had changed when it started to happen, it was random. settings:

Game Version: 0.0.0.26458h4, the latest version

Evidence (Screenshots & Videos)

[Crazdude]

Thank you for posting this report, DisGuy06! I've been seeing similar issues with a bunch of assets and have been meaning to write one myself for a while. The following are my findings as a fellow Mac user:

Regardless of settings (low to epic), I have noticed the dark-asset issue with the following foliage/assets:

• Dry sea grasses on ocean shorelines
• Reeds by all bodies of water
• Lake weed (both the quest/food item and animated varieties of lakeweed used as decoration at bottoms of lakes)
• Tiger nut greens (not the tubers themselves)
• Birch/Redwood leaves + Pine tree needles (not the trunks/branches)
• Banana trees and picked bananas (food item)
• Lily (quest/food item)
• Canna Flowers (quest/food item)
• Berry Bushes (food item)
• Prickly-pear Cactus (quest item - but NOT the smaller echiveria-style succulents)
• Random shrubs + scrub grass (most of the varieties used in plains like Green Hills and Grand Plains as well as filler in desert biomes like Broken-tooth canyon)
• Most swamp foliage in Sharptooth Marsh (Palms, ferns and both hanging + climbing vines)
• Ground-cover foliage across Panjura (small ferns and tiny plants that look like clover)
• Lily pads on ponds/marsh water surfaces
• many types of coral/ocean "foliage" including seaweed, yellow branch corals used for Golden Plateu, purple corals seen in the bay that lies between Broken-Tooth Canyon and the Ripple Beach frog pond.

ALSO potentially related (since these appeared different with the same updates): bodies of fresh water on Gondwa appear to be matte and nearly opaque as if a similar shadow effect could be applied to those as well? [Not an issue with salt water of Gondwa or fresh water on Panjura.]

At a distance (edge of minimap or closer), some of these elements may appear correct (verdant, normal) but abruptly switch to black upon approaching (examples given with Green Hills photos). The assets listed with these issues may appear in multiple POI and on Panjura and/or Gondwa. Example POI mentioned above and in photo titles for ease of reference. Issue seen for all of the following assets wherever they are utilized in the unmodded Panjura map, unmodded Gondwa map, and even fan-made maps like Cerulean Island and modded servers using the official maps.

For comparison, see the following elements that seem to be UNAFFECTED: all mushrooms, yarrow, ginger, lychee, pinecone, acorns, lake sponge, bloodstones, roots, branches, all shells, echiveria-style succulent, melon, rocks, salt rock, tufts of grass, bones, dandelion-looking ground-cover on Panjura, corpses, critters + burrows, among others.

See files attached for some of the blackened assets vs normal as well as some of the normal vs matte water. Photos taken on single-player mode, same settings as original reporter, Panjura and Gondwa without mods loaded.

Build information: iMac, 24-inch, Apple M1 chip Game version: 0.0.0.26458h4-Shipping Operating system: Mac OS Ventura 13.4.1

[Crazdude]

OH! and one more element I forgot: The sea anemone are blackened (starfish and sponge are all fine)

Looking at photos now (since I basically use this game as a zen walking/fishing simulator and desktop-photo generator lol) and I see that all was fine April through late May (after major Nightstalker update) - no evidence of the bush issue on the community server pics I took (see the Alios at Hunter's Thicket).

The first pics with the blackened bushes/trees/assets appears in photos I took June 22 (Patch 25374h3, the patch made for BattlEye) were where the bushes started appearing black - also taken on the same community server I play on (Iggies at Grand Plains).

It took me a while to get around to making a report due to other obligations plus I may have gotten complacent in the bugs even on single-player. Waterfalls continue to cause my character and nearby terrain elements in and out of existence all the time (something I was trying to help Oida with Cerulean Island mod map to fix but have seen on Gondwa nearly from the start - I may need to make a report at this point since some areas have improved but others have spread... it's just a lot that I will need to capture and upload to Youtube.) But generally I see issues come and go. Like the time the shadows were aggressively black around interaction objects like yarrow or terrain rocks were invisible but left a shadow in their place back on Panjura - all those issues got patched and are better now!

[Crazdude]

Also while I'm at it, I have a video! Meant to be recorded with regards to a reported issue about the waterfalls stuttering (Report #11884) but it does have some video evidence of the various black vegetation and food/quest items https://youtu.be/pnUs09_Pico

[AlderonEmu]

This bug has been forwarded to the QA team for review!

[DisGuy06]

This bug has been forwarded to the QA team for review!

Any progress? :)

[Libasse819]

has a way been found to fix this

[AlderonEmu]

This is mostly a hardware issue with MAC, unfortunately. Though we are looking into ways to fix it on our end.