The Retro FIFA Discussion Thread (All FIFA games by EA are welcome!)

anhle268 said:
How about making the 3d grass appear only in cutscene. Not for total gameplay
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It is possible on the mods I've released. You have to edit the .ini file inside the plugins folder to remove the 3D grass during gameplay. Here are the settings that you have to change:

FIFA 11:
NoGrassInLiveGameplay=1

FIFA 12:
The current version can't render 3D grass during gameplay yet. Have plan on getting it to work in future and if I manage to do it, there will be option to disable it.

FIFA 13:
Mod unreleased and is still in development. Some stadiums have bugs with mow patterns and I can't solve it yet, so it's not released. You can disable 3D grass during gameplay on the unreleased mod.

FIFA 14:
GameplayGrass=0

FIFA 15:
GrassInGameplay=0
 
FIFA 15 Kit wrinkle modification test- successfully managed to extract and repackage normal maps in cloth wrinkle files.


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Not a true solution since I still failed to modify the shader files. But the jersey wrinkles are more visible on the game now with this band-aid method. Here's how the default FIFA 14 retail version kit wrinkles look now:


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The jersey creases were near invisible previously. But they are pretty visible now. Will release them after some testing and polish.
 
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Sami 1999 said:
Not a true solution since I still failed to modify the shader files. But the jersey wrinkles are more visible on the game now with this band-aid method. Here's how the default FIFA 14 retail version kit wrinkles look now:


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The jersey creases were near invisible previously. But they are pretty visible now. Will release them after some testing and polish.
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You are doing great job, thanks!
 
@Sami 1999 do you think it is possible to fix bug that is present in FIFA 14 resulting in shoes textures being extremely dark and desaturated during night time games? It always bothered the hell of out me.
 
piospi said:
@Sami 1999 do you think it is possible to fix bug that is present in FIFA 14 resulting in shoes textures being extremely dark and desaturated during night time games? It always bothered the hell of out me.
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Since its possible tp log most of the events in these games. including shader changes, it might give us some idea. Probably beyond my scope.

FIFA 13 and 14 has huge issue with ligthing in general. The game frequently gets a dark shadow bug and it's a pain in the ass to solve. If you alt-tab and then tab back into the game, the bug goes away. It comes back again the next match. This caused so much trouble when I tried to get my 3d grass mods to work in the games because the grass would end up looking completely dark in the match and there would be large shadow covering 1/2 to 3/4 th of the field. Sometimes alt-tab fixed it, other times it did nothing. The bug had something to do with practice arena and the minigames before starting a match. I only managed a duct tape solution where the game is forced to drop all the practice arena assets after starting a new match [you can't skip first few seconds of the match intro or the bug carries over].

One of my theory is that the shadow bug is related to the practice arena visuals glitching out just like my above described issue. If alt-tabbing [if it doesn't work, then switching from fullscreen to window mode and then back to fullscreen mode] fixes it- then it might be related to that.

First we have to check if we can reliably reproduce the bug.
 
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