Closed So I'm getting a strange, disjointed head/body bug?

So I'm getting this bug, it's happening on all of my characters, though it seems most prominent on humans, where, during movement (running, jumping, anything really) the head of the character gets separated from the body, opening up a pretty big gap between the head and body that you can see the background through.

Now, I've played Florans mostly, and the problem is a lot less noticeable on them, but it's still there. I don't know if I just didn't notice it before, or if it's something that's new, but it's just so weird. Is anyone else getting this? Does anyone know a fix, or what causes it? I mean, if it's been the case for a while, then I just noticed it and NOW it's going to bug me, knowing it's there...

Would be great if there's a fix, might see if a restarting my computer will help, then a cache check, then a reinstall if all else fails, but hopefully it won't come to that.

Anyway, again, would be great if someone has a solution that doesn't involve reinstalling the game (not like it's that long of a download, to be honest), thanks a ton!

 

What zoom level are you using?

 

I'm playing at the default zoom 3, but it was odd that, at both x2 and x4, the glitch doesn't happen. I play at zoom 3 because at x2 I can hardly see anything around me, while at x4 my computer starts to chug at everything on screen at once (and everything is so small anyway). zoom 3 has always been that nice balance for me.

But I don't, honestly, see how that's the problem. I've been playing at zoom 3 for the entire 310 hours, and I've never noticed it before now, which leads me to think that something happened between a few days ago, and today. It IS possible that it was because I started adding mods to the game yesterday, but even after getting rid of all of the mods and verifying the integrity of the game cache (which I didn't expect to change much) it's not back to normal. I'm gonna reinstall. If it's still happening after a complete game wipe, then it must be something that I just haven't seen recently (again, I was playing a Floran, where this particular glitch isn't AS noticeable)

EDIT: Nope, a reinstall didn't fix it. Hmm... I'm just wondering how I missed this, and, again, if I'm the only one who's having this problem.

 

After some imvestigation, I also experience bugs with the head in singleplayer zoom.

Oddly enough, my head is rotated instead of offset. I've got no clues as to how to fix this.

 

Stranger still, it seems to ONLY happen at Zoom level 3, Downloading a mod that adds extra zoom levels (http://community.playstarbound.com/resources/extra-zoom-levels.982/), and switching to x2.75 or 3.25 (the lowest changes from Zoom 3 available), this glitch doesn't happen. So... I think I found an essential mod (at least for me) until someone who also gets this graphical glitch can figure out how to fix it. It's so strange that it only happens at Zoom level 3, though.

 

Looks like it might be the case in unstable as well. I'll get screenshots once I take a look at all the races, but currently I know that it happens with the Humans running forward (with nothing and anything in hand) and the Novakids running backwards (something that can only happen with an item in their hand). And so far I've only tested the female models.

 

PLEASE VIEW IN FULL RESOLUTION TO SEE THE PIXEL ISSUES.
(All screenshots taken on a clean Unstable Glad Giraffe Build, except for the far right image which was taken on a clean Nightly Upbeat Giraffe).

I can confirm this is a continuing issue in the current Unstable build (Glad Giraffe), and has been present since the nightlies before unstable giraffe. Furthermore, the head gap is not the only problem of this sort; All parts of the character's body, including hair and clothing, commonly become misaligned. The misalignment changes depending on the color and pose of each specific body or clothing piece. This misalignment occurs across all races.

This problem only seems to exist in the x 3 zoom. However, that does not make this a non-issue, seeing as the x 3 zoom is the default settings and many players are comfortable with this ratio. It makes the player look very unappealing in certain situations, especially when the player has bright skin or other body colors that heavily contrast with their clothes. The severity of the effect varies depending on how offset each piece is from the other, so sometimes the effect is blatantly obvious and other times the body parts match up perfectly.

I would be personally grateful it if the CF team would take it upon themselves to fix this issue before officially updating Glad Giraffe to Stable.

 

Yup, that's what I was running into as well. There were even times when my characters body would become misaligned with the legs, which was really odd, but I couldn't recreate that. I've attached a few (Okay, maybe more then necessary) screenshots showing that I'm playing on Glad Giraffe, and still getting the issues. Though, Avians were a bit different in that their arms seemed to "pop off." Really, what happend is that the torso of the body would move, but the arm and shoulder joint wouldn't move with it, making the shoulder move back, and look... awkward. Most all of the issues I ran into, though, was only when I was running. And yes, all of these were at x 3 zoom.

 

Ya ya! that's what beta's are for, yea? Just glad I spotted something before 1.0 . As has been stated, though, it only seems to happen on x 3 zoom, and even a small, .25 change in either direction seems to fix the issue (so far as I've noticed, anyway)

 

It might just be me, but I've been noticing little issues like this since the first beta release, glad someone actually picked this up and posted about it.