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addVisualEffect strange results

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Over the summer, addVisualEffect has changed to produce different effects. The color change is obvious but they are now somewhat transparent, if that helps.

June-27-22-build
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Sept-3-22-build
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Nov.1 build shows same as Sept.3.
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Re: addVisualEffect strange results

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Also present in HDR test builds. Doesn't matter if my display is in HDR mode or not. I've tried 5 builds w/ 4 oxp mixes.

Can anyone reproduce this so I can exclude the possibility my PC needs a rebuild? Use either the Sept.3/22 or Nov.1/22 dev build, telescope (either 1.15 or 2) w/ 3D model on and model is backlit by planet or moon.
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Re: addVisualEffect strange results

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I'd be delighted to help out.

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Re: addVisualEffect strange results

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This seems to have changed at around the time we implemented rendering to framebuffer. Will have to check further.
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Re: addVisualEffect strange results

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Fixed in revision 29a2fc0. Now that we are using a 16-bit floating point framebuffer we need to remember to clamp the alpha values ourselves - it is not done automatically like it used to when we were rendering on 8-bit framebuffer.
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