Error Message Starting Game

[BillLottJr]

The first time I tried to start the game after installing the 1.5.3 patch. The file does look damaged.

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[rbodleyscott]

That file is certainly corrupted.

It should look like this:

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NAME lit_skin

[DEF]
POSITION
NORMAL
WEIGHTS
INDICES
TEX2

[VS].BLOB
float4x4 matWorld : register(c0);
float4x4 matWVP : register(c12);
float4x4 matL : register(c24);

float4x3 bones[48] : register(c32) ;

#include "uvtools.txt"
  
 struct VS_IN                                   
 {                                             
    float4 objPos   : POSITION;                // Object space position 
    float3 normal    : NORMAL;                                    
	float4 weights : BLENDWEIGHT ;
	float4 index : BLENDINDICES ;	
	float2 tex0 : TEXCOORD0;						
 };                                            
                                               
 struct VS_OUT                                 
 {                                             
	float4 pos : POSITION ;
	float4 refPos : TEXCOORD0 ;
	float2 tex0 : TEXCOORD1 ;
	float3 normal : TEXCOORD2 ;
	
 };                                             
                                                
 VS_OUT main( VS_IN In )                        
 {                                              
    VS_OUT outData;    

	float4 pos ;
	
	In.objPos.w = 1 ;
	
	int indices[4] = (int[ 4 ])   D3DCOLORtoUBYTE4( In.index );
	
	float4 ww = In.weights ;

	// NOTE reversed mul order to handle 4x3 (allows more matrices)
	pos.xyz = mul(In.objPos, bones[ indices[0] ]) * ww.x ;
	pos.xyz += mul(In.objPos, bones[ indices[1] ]) * ww.y ;
	pos.xyz += mul(In.objPos, bones[ indices[2] ]) * ww.z ;
	pos.xyz += mul(In.objPos, bones[ indices[3] ]) * ww.w ;	

	pos.w = 1 ;
	
	float4 pp ;
	
	pp = pos ;
		
    outData.pos = mul( matWVP, pos );
	outData.refPos = outData.pos ;
	
	outData.tex0 = MapTex4x4(In.tex0) ;
	
	float4 v ;
	v.xyz = In.normal ;
	v.w = 0 ;
	
	// NOTE reversed mul order to handle 4x3 (allows more matrices)
	pos.xyz = mul(v, bones[ indices[0] ]) * ww.x ;
	pos.xyz += mul(v, bones[ indices[1] ]) * ww.y ;
	pos.xyz += mul(v, bones[ indices[2] ]) * ww.z ;
	pos.xyz += mul(v, bones[ indices[3] ]) * ww.w ;	

	outData.normal = normalize( mul(matWorld, pos.xyz)) ; 
	
	return outData ;
 }  
 
 
[PS].BLOB
sampler2D tex : register(s0);
float4 lightDir : register(c16);
 
struct PS_IN                                
{                                           
	float4 refPos : TEXCOORD0 ;
	float2 tex : TEXCOORD1 ;
	float3 normal : TEXCOORD2 ;
};                                           
                                              
float4 main( PS_IN In ) : COLOR              
{                            
	float depthValue;
	float4 color;
				   
	// Get the depth value of the pixel by dividing the Z pixel depth by the homogeneous W coordinate.
	depthValue = In.refPos.z / In.refPos.w;
   
	float4 t = tex2D(tex, In.tex) ;
	color = float4(depthValue, depthValue, depthValue, t.w);  // use alpha to shadow cutouts
	return color;
} 

Since you appear to be using the standalone Slitherine version, you probably need to uninstall the game, reinstall it and then run the updater again.

Note that the updater should be able to cope with non-standard installation locations, but does not like it if you have installed the main game in one location and then moved it manually to another location.

[BillLottJr]

I did the re-install & everything is good now. Thanks for the quick reply.