The Cubed's Shader Issue Gets Fixed

Old picture of Cubed testing Vive Trackers taken by Cubed.

Until recently, one of the most well-known issues with visuals in VRChat was the "disappearing act" of avatars using Cubed's Flat Lit Toon shader. However, AMD finally released the fix for the drivers on their website.

Last Friday/Saturday, Tupper posted a message in the "Announcements" saying, "This announcement is for our AMD friends— Guess what! AMD fixed their drivers to work with Cubed's Flat Lit Toon shader! Just install the latest driver (18.5.2) and you'll no longer have invisible people in VR with RX 4-500 series cards. Support is very very glad that this issue is now in the past."

According to members of the official VRChat Discord, the main issue was with avatars disappearing on clients of users with specific hardware made by AMD. As FPaul replied, “nothing was wrong with the shader itself, it was an issue on AMD's driver and is now fixed in the recent version.”

However, even though the problem seems to be finally gone, one of the representatives of the VRChat team known as SpookyBoogie made a sudden appearance in "Random Chat" and said, "Anyone have an AMD card with old drivers on it? Trying to run a test on AMD bugs.” Then he added, “This is random, I know, hence my posting in random, haha."

It looks like, even though AMD uploaded an update that must have solved the issue for their consumers, VRChat developers are aware of various possible outcomes that might have been caused by new glitches and bugs, and they want to make sure their software is working for everyone without any unpredictable issues so far.

Perhaps, this might have something to do with the next beta testing, and we're reminding you that VRChat Beta got re-opened to everyone on Steam until last week, but right now it should stay closed until the developers officially announce another round of public testing.

As of now, they’re working on tools for custom scripting in the private VRChat Beta client, and, according to them, there’s going to be a lot more new information coming very soon.