Seam in skybox after converting project to Godot 4

[jtbourke]

Godot Version

Godot 4.2.1

Question

After converting a Godot 3.5 project to Godot 4.2.1, the skybox has a seam. I’ve been through all the import options and nothing seems to help. Any ideas?

[jtbourke]

Ok I figured out what is going on here, somewhat, maybe.

The Godot 3.5 project imported this asset with filtering seat to nearest-neighbor.

I read up a bit and I see that in 4.0 this is no longer an import option. The filtering is in the material. Makes sense. For a normal material I can just change the filtering method.

But this material uses a shader. I’m not very familiar with Godot but I found a couple of references to this issue. So I tried adding “filter_nearest” to the texture_albedo uniform sampler2d in the shader code below. Unfortunately, I don’t see the pixelation of the sky texture that I expected. Is this line correct? Any other thoughts?

uniform sampler2D texture_albedo : source_color, filter_nearest;

Here is the original shader:

shader_type spatial;
render_mode blend_mix,depth_draw_opaque,cull_front,diffuse_burley,specular_schlick_ggx,ambient_light_disabled;
uniform vec4 albedo : source_color;
uniform sampler2D texture_albedo : source_color;
uniform float specular;
uniform float metallic;
uniform float roughness : hint_range(0,1);
uniform float point_size : hint_range(0,128);
uniform sampler2D texture_metallic : hint_default_white;
uniform vec4 metallic_texture_channel;
uniform sampler2D texture_roughness : hint_default_white;
uniform vec4 roughness_texture_channel;
uniform vec3 uv1_scale;
uniform vec3 uv1_offset;
uniform vec3 uv2_scale;
uniform vec3 uv2_offset;


void vertex() {
	UV=UV*uv1_scale.xy+uv1_offset.xy;
}




void fragment() {
	vec2 base_uv = UV;
	vec4 albedo_tex = texture(texture_albedo,base_uv);
	ALBEDO = albedo.rgb * albedo_tex.rgb;
	float metallic_tex = dot(texture(texture_metallic,base_uv),metallic_texture_channel);
	METALLIC = metallic_tex * metallic;
	float roughness_tex = dot(texture(texture_roughness,base_uv),roughness_texture_channel);
	ROUGHNESS = roughness_tex * roughness;
	SPECULAR = specular;
	ALPHA = albedo.a * UV[1];
}

[jtbourke]

Ok, it turned out that setting the Compression mode to VRAM Uncompressed got me the results I needed. The nearest_filter option that I used in the shader was actually working, it was just hard to see. And now that I’ve changed these settings the seam has gone away.