Lethal Sponge | Lethal Company Modding | Page 7

lean wave Apr 15, 2026, 6:36 PM

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thank you so much!!

scenic ocean Apr 15, 2026, 6:36 PM

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yeah, it looks like when the FinalPass shader is run, its output is the PlayerScreen

lean wave Apr 15, 2026, 6:37 PM

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and yep you're right

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i couldnt get it to work with transparency

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that explains it

scenic ocean Apr 15, 2026, 6:37 PM

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so I think your best bet is actually pulling the frames out of the PlayerScreen and not the camera buffer

lean wave Apr 15, 2026, 6:37 PM

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if you look at this video, you can notice the top 2 small monitors arent affected

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they're "transparent" for some reason

scenic ocean Apr 15, 2026, 6:39 PM

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It's because they use the UI/Default and TextMeshPro/Distance Field shaders, which occur after Before Transparent is injected

lean wave Apr 15, 2026, 6:40 PM

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ooooh

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turn that frown upside down

scenic ocean Apr 15, 2026, 6:40 PM

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Cannot recommend messing around with RenderDoc enough.
It's so good for learning what's going on behind the scenes in games, and it's really easy to attach to any unity game

lean wave Apr 15, 2026, 6:42 PM

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thank you Jane shaderpass

lean wave Apr 16, 2026, 12:29 AM

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this is your name now legally

lean wave Apr 17, 2026, 1:11 AM

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scenic ocean yeah, it looks like when the `FinalPass` shader is run, its output is the Player...

do u know how i can get this btw? i know theres playercontrollerb.gameplayCamera.targetTexture but that gives a RenderTexture and not an RTHandle so idk if i have to alloc a new one or what

scenic ocean Apr 17, 2026, 1:33 AM

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SetTexture should be able to just take the RenderTexture directly, but allocing a new handle should also work, since handles are just a wrapper.

lean wave Apr 17, 2026, 5:00 AM

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scenic ocean `SetTexture` should be able to just take the RenderTexture directly, but allocin...

lol the only thing using PlayerScreen to pull frames seems to do differently is overlay a blank grey texture on my screen instead of black when injected after post process. Maybe I'm just not referencing it correctly; I'm trying to pull it from GameNetworkManager.Instance.localPlayerController.gameplayCamera.targetTexture after it's no longer null bc I'm not really sure how else I'd do it

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its rlly interesting how the screen just melts in editor injected into After Post Process when trying to pull the frames from the camera buffer directly

lean wave Apr 17, 2026, 6:08 AM

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i tried renderdoc too and couldn't get it to work, every time i attach it to lethal company and launch the game it prevents bepinex from hooking to the game at all (even with a manual installation)

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...ok

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great

scenic ocean Apr 17, 2026, 11:27 AM

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There's a trick for getting RenderDoc to work along with other injected code.

If you go into your local Lethal Company files and open the 'Lethal Company_Data' folder, there's a boot.config file.
Open that and change wait-for-native-debugger to 1.

Now whenever the game launches it will open a dialogue first that prompts you to attach a debugger. (this works for any un-obfuscated unity game, and also works for attaching the unity profilers)

While that dialogue is open, launch RenderDoc and go to File -> Inject Into Process. Then search for Lethal Company and inject. Once it's injected you can dismiss the dialogue and the game will launch with RenderDoc attached even with mods loaded.

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As for what's going wrong, I'd have to look at a renderdoc capture or run the custom pass locally to see what's causing problems with grabbing the playerscreen/running after transparent.

lean wave Apr 17, 2026, 1:23 PM

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id feel bad making you do that surely this is not impossible for me

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i will keep at it for a while and return if i exhaust myself

sudden abyss Apr 19, 2026, 7:38 AM

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@spice plinth

pale narwhal Apr 22, 2026, 12:07 AM

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what are these settings doing in lethal sponge right now?

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vanilla limits these to 20, 7, and 22 respectively

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the way this changelog is worded:

Removed the override for vanilla's radar framerate method, since vanilla now uses the same framerate cap method I was using. This also fixes bodycams not rendering with Patch Camera Script enabled.
i wasn't sure if these settings were just being ignored, or if they were getting assigned as the FPS value of the associated camera (thus overwriting vanilla's values)

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looks like the repository is still pre-v80, but i guess i could also check a decomp...

gritty sun Apr 22, 2026, 1:12 AM

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I put the Map Camera Framerate to 60 so the 'ship guy' has a nice smooth experience, unsure what the performance impact is though

foggy void Apr 24, 2026, 11:33 PM

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@scenic ocean Is it possible to cap the framerate of the terminal monitor? Also yeah you need to remove those orpeaned options lmao. Main reason I ask is cus if you use a mod like Darmuh's Terminal Stuff that networks it it makes the whole ship lag when someone is using the view monitor/map command because the framerate is uncapped

scenic ocean Apr 24, 2026, 11:48 PM

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Oh yeah those likely aren't doing anything anymore, I'll remove them next patch.
As for the terminal map, it should be using the same framerate as the other map? They're both pointing to the same camera. I'll have to look into that when I have time.

pale narwhal Apr 24, 2026, 11:51 PM

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foggy void <@260587965456056331> Is it possible to cap the framerate of the terminal monito...

are you using tworadarmaps? because like scoops said, vanilla only uses one camera for both

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it's a single camera rendering to a rendertexture that the ship monitor and terminal both read

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seems like this is more like a feature request for tworadarmaps

foggy void Apr 24, 2026, 11:52 PM

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I'm not using TwoRadarMaps no so it might be a TerminalStuff issue

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I'll just turn off the network synced nodes ig

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Unless GI is overriding since it has options to change the frame rate

foggy void Apr 25, 2026, 6:06 AM

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Did some more testing, seems the Terminal Stuff map causes lag but not the Vanilla View Monitor

foggy void Apr 25, 2026, 6:29 AM

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@rain charm Maybe you can add a framerate cap for the Map? I also wanna let you know that there is a bug with the Map where sometimes after a client has brought it up and used it when I go to use it it turns entirely White for some reason

lean wave Apr 28, 2026, 9:50 AM

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@neat light i wanna ask you about custom pass stuff

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is there anyone around who has even gotten one working with the game's posterization

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i have sort of hit a wall

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idk if its something with unity, but getting a pass to work on top of scoops is just not possible for some reason on my end

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regardless of ordering etc

neat light Apr 28, 2026, 9:52 AM

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A custom pass? Yeah I have a few working
Its been a hot minute since I checked them out though so I haven't seen em in action for v81

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I think they still work

lean wave Apr 28, 2026, 9:53 AM

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yeah for some reason if i try stacking any effect on top of the scoops one it either replaces it or does nothing

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like the ordering thing just isn't working at all

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ill record in a second

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or a while

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unity is taking its sweet time to open

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idk this is so weird i dont understand

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my shader grabs frames from ctx.cameraColorBuffer.rt but it just completely ignores the rest of the pass

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im assuming because im injecting before post process but i dont really have a choice there

lean wave Apr 28, 2026, 10:12 AM

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lean wave its rlly interesting how the screen just melts in editor injected into ``After P...

it unexplainably breaks when injected into after post process (im assuming because the frames are already discarded at this point?) so i cannot do it here

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i wonder if instead of pulling the camera color buffer directly i can pull the posterizationRT buffer that scoops made in post somehow?

bleak geyser Apr 30, 2026, 3:19 PM

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Generate lods on/off

bleak geyser Apr 30, 2026, 3:38 PM

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And you can only see Eyeless dog teeth if Apply security camera quality overrides is turned on

pale narwhal Apr 30, 2026, 3:50 PM

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bleak geyser

for clarity sake, the metal sheet is missing in the bodycam 🙂 with lods on

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im not sure what vanilla items this affects, probably at least the bottles and heart

ornate reef May 2, 2026, 1:56 PM

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lean wave idk if its something with unity, but getting a pass to work on top of scoops is ...

did you ever work this out?

lean wave May 2, 2026, 3:38 PM

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nah it burnt me out tbh

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was going in circles at a point

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and i have other shit to worry abt

ornate reef May 2, 2026, 3:39 PM

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mark my words, i will make this sponge dry out

ornate reef May 3, 2026, 6:29 AM

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I failed

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