I replaced the color file with the height file

noiseOctaves = 99.9;

What? It wouldn't work. Shaders even wouldn't compile. Open your log and you'll see a bunch of errors.

You PC will freeze or generate a driver timeout crash while generating textures with 99 octaves. And even if it generates them, you won't be able to see cheap details, because textures have a limited resolution.

EDIT: btw you can't assign value to noiseOctaves, because it is a macro, not a variable. Shader wouldn't compile.

You guys must really know what are you doing!

There are no errors in the log file.

This is impossible. Did you really change files in proper location, or in some different place? Did you save shader before running SE? (Also, in debug mode, you may press Ctrl-F5 to reload shaders). Try do something stupid, like add these to the shader code:

dfhwhdfsh = jgsdbgbe;

If shader still compiles with no errors and works, then something wrong with file location.

Then you incorrectly described what you made. Swaping tg_gasgiant_height.glsl and tg_gasgiant_color.glsl would never work!

I did do a folder restore of a backup and did a file comparison and the only differences are the two gas giant files.

Send me them only

Shader folder with the originals and the modified files and all other game shaders.

I also ran in debug and did ctrl F5, the end of the log is only because I ended the process not because it crashed.

It says "The file you requested does not exist."

Ctrl-F5 works only if you modify the shader file(s) when SE is running.

Default its 0.0 but it made them all blurry on my end so try adjusting that.

Doc, default is 10, and when I set it to that they work fine for me.

They kind of remind me of gas giants from 0.94