#pre-seasons patch fix

[peacemaker-ic]

PhongAlpha Transpareny Fix - Pre-Seasons Patch (and for Mac users affected by Pre-C+D Patch)

I have been trying to work out this bug since last year, and then the problem showed up for PC with the Pre-Seasons patch. This was both cruel and helpful, I could test things more effectively. After testing about a half a dozen things, I stumbled across the easy fix: changing the PhongAlphaThreshold parameter in the material info section. Basically how this attribute works is by defining a value to say whatever is below the number is fully transparent, while anything about can be varying degrees of solid. It is generally used for phong shader plants to all for the texture cutout, but here it was causing the issues. Solution? changing the value to zero. 

This tutorial is aimed at the creators as they know there way around the inner workings of a package file. This is not aimed at the average user looking to fix their cc.

Method:

Open package in S4S

Go to warehouse tab and find your first mesh group

Go to the data tab and click on the edit items button

On the left click on the phongalpha group to highlight it

on the right, scroll down to the material section and click the edit items button (fourth button down)

Click on the first set group (I don’t edit the default, but you can if you want)

On the right of this popup, click the edit items button on the Meshes line

Find AlphaMaskThreshold. For my item it was originally a value of 100. 

Change value to 0

Save to close this popup then repeat for all other entries

Once they are all changes, save out of the popups, then repeat for Medium and Low mesh groups. 

Once done, save package and test ingame.

It should now be fixed. 

Hopefully this helps some of you and I apologise to the Mac users for this taking so long to figure out. I am happy its an easy fix.