Some textures are treated as depths under MoltenVK

[Denis]

Game Version​

v2026.7.9.5018

Operating System​

macOS

What Happened​

With textures and shadows stored together under globalTextures, SPIRV-Cross incorrectly identifies textures2d as depth2d, causing 3 out of 4 values in vec4 to be lost. This results in incorrect clouds, planet colors, and possible issues with ground clutter.

What Was Expected​

Potential fix is to separate globalTextures into globalTextures and globalShadows (same goes with the arrays). If I'm not mistaken, if done in a shader, they should still point to the same objects. SPIRV-Cross, used by MoltenVK and is the reason for incorrect determination, would correctly separate the two into texture2d<float> and depth2d<float>. The change, theoretically, should be transparent to Windows/Linux users

Diff​

diff --git a/Shaders/Common/TextureSet.glsl b/Shaders/Common/TextureSet.glsl
index 261a89f..8442e57 100644
--- a/Shaders/Common/TextureSet.glsl
+++ b/Shaders/Common/TextureSet.glsl
@@ -8,17 +8,19 @@
 #endif
 
 layout (set = SET_TEXTURE, binding = 0) uniform texture2D globalTextures[];
+layout (set = SET_TEXTURE, binding = 0) uniform texture2D globalShadows[];
 layout (set = SET_TEXTURE, binding = 0) uniform texture2DArray globalTextureArrays[];
+layout (set = SET_TEXTURE, binding = 0) uniform texture2DArray globalShadowsArray[];
 layout (set = SET_TEXTURE, binding = 0) uniform textureCube globalTextureCubes[];
 layout (set = SET_TEXTURE, binding = 1) uniform sampler samplers[];
 
 #define TEXTURE_SAMPLER(texID, samplerID) sampler2D(globalTextures[texID], samplers[samplerID])
 #define TEXTURE_ARRAY_SAMPLER(texID, samplerID) sampler2DArray(globalTextureArrays[texID], samplers[samplerID])
-#define SHADOW_ARRAY_SAMPLER(texID, samplerID) sampler2DArrayShadow(globalTextureArrays[texID], samplers[samplerID])
-#define SHADOW_SAMPLER(texID, samplerID) sampler2DShadow(globalTextures[texID], samplers[samplerID])
+#define SHADOW_ARRAY_SAMPLER(texID, samplerID) sampler2DArrayShadow(globalShadowsArray[texID], samplers[samplerID])
+#define SHADOW_SAMPLER(texID, samplerID) sampler2DShadow(globalShadows[texID], samplers[samplerID])
 
 #define SAMPLE_TEXTURE(texID, samplerID, uv) texture(TEXTURE_SAMPLER(texID, samplerID), uv)
 #define SAMPLE_ARRAY_TEXTURE(texID, samplerID, uvLayer) texture(TEXTURE_ARRAY_SAMPLER(texID, samplerID), uvLayer)
 #define GATHER_TEXTURE(texID, samplerID, uv, comp) textureGather(TEXTURE_SAMPLER(texID, samplerID), uv, comp)

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