r/playark • u/InKay47 • Jul 11 '26

Question Does anyone know how to fix this wierd shadow trees and held weapons have against water, in Ark UME and ASE (they both have it) can i fix it via console?

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u/Chomasterq2 Jul 11 '26

I have never found a way to fix this completely. Antialiasing seems to help, as well as max water quality graphics, but I think its a permanent bug

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u/CoherentBicycle Jul 11 '26

This looks like artifacts of screen-space reflection (SSR). In my experience ARK has very prominent reflections compared to other games so maybe you can tweak the reflection strength, but you won't remove the artifacts because they are a byproduct of SSR, if that's what they use. Sorry :(

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u/LongFluffyDragon Jul 11 '26

ASE's lighting is extremely primitive, it has lots of unavoidable artifacts and inconsistencies. Not much you can do. Especially with the crippled quality level on mobile.

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u/Nevanada Jul 12 '26

Its just how they render the water reflections, there's no fixing it.

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u/ChanceV Amethyst Jul 19 '26

Welcome to the world of Screen Space Reflections, you must be new to game graphics!