Fairing Conflict with Deferred Rendering

[SpartanNat]

When using Bluedog Design Bureau and Deferred Rendering, the fairings render off-color and are see-through. What it appears happens is the single texture for the fairing and no normal map causes issues with how Deferred renders the custom fairing segments. Knes and Restock use fairing segments with what I can only assume is the normal map which fixes it.

Mods used for testing:
Structure:
Modular Launch Pads
Space Station Parts Expansion Redux
Fairings:
Bluedog Design Bureau
Knes
Restock
Tantares

Also pasted to Tantares since it suffers from the same problem.

[Rodg88]

Are the first two pictures meant to be showing some issue? I only see something weird in the last picture.

[SpartanNat]

Are the first two pictures meant to be showing some issue? I only see something weird in the last picture.

The first 2 are a comparison of a Simple Adjustable Fairings fairing vs the normal KSP procedural fairing system using a Bluedog 0.9375m fairing base top-down iirc for diameter. It was an LV already made so I just used it for the comparison.

[pop-vapor]

I am having a similar issue so posting here to reduce clutter, and hoping OP found a solution. I also posted this in deferred's issues page.

Metallic textures are strikingly visible through BDB fairings with Simple Adjustable Fairings installed. This issue does not occur at all with restock fairings, as shown below. This issue also does not occur if deferred is removed.

Visual Mods Installed:
Deferred Rendering
Environmental Visual Enhancements + Volumetric Clouds Release 5 + Scatterer
Parallax Continued
Textures Unlimited
Textures Unlimited Recolor Depot

ksp.log if it helps https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IrTcCIli2DVUBUiCPAlteApBvNmRGSgT/view

[bruhmomommentoe]

having this same issue. anyone figure it out?

[zorg2044]

I think someone mentioned this might be due to the stock type fairings in BDB not using normal maps which deferred doesn't like. We don't have time for an update at the moment, we would suggest using Simple Adjustable Fairings which is our preferred fairing solution anyway. If you really need stock fairings I would just suggest using restock fairings where they fit. Tweakscale rescaled can adjust the size I believe.

Will see if I have time to fix it on the dev branch at least but not sure when.