This is an issue that has been bothering me for quite awhile, and i'm just now getting around to posting something about it.

In my GameGuru files, I have many, and I mean many assets installed that have broken shaders. I think(?) it's because shaders were done differently earlier in GameGuru's lifetime, so assets made during that time don't have all the same components the newer assets do. I'm not completely sure, but I think the problem is due to these assets not including "effectbank\reloaded\entity_basic.fx", or something similar to that in the file for that specific entity. So now, the assets that do not include that string of text are extremely bright.

I certainly do not want to go through every single asset that has this issue, and add that. And i'm sure other people who have encountered this issue don't either.

I think a useful feature in GameGuru would be for the engine to automatically detect if certain entities you place do not include that line of code, and automatically add it when placed. Either that, or being able to apply the shader yourself through the entity properties.

There might be a solution to this problem already, and if there is, please notify me.

Love y'all.

It actually already does that already, and that's what is causing the problem i think.

The problem is mainly the free classics dlc, this was converted from fpsc assets by volunteers before pbr was introduced, back then if you missed out the shader line it defaulted to entity_basic.fx and worked fine so they just left them out.

But what i think is happening now is with pbr being introduced the default is now apbr_basic.fx so its automatically applying the wrong shader which is why you're seeing issues.

Is there any possible way to get GameGuru to automatically assign it to entity_basic.fx again? Or to even remove PBR completely if necessary?

Not that i know of.

Setting GameGuru to an older version does fix the light issue, but obviously, it isn't the ideal solution. So until this is resolved in some way, I guess I can just take a long break from the engine. This issue doesn't even just affect 3rd party downloads, but also assets that come with GameGuru, so it has to be fixed eventually, right?

It appears that setting GameGuru to an older version fixes the issue. However, more issues come from that, such as enemies not having weapons, terrain issues, etc. I can only hope for this to be resolved soon.