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{{Related|User Interface|Graphical Errors|Frequently Asked Questions}} | {{Related|User Interface|Graphical Errors|Frequently Asked Questions}} | ||
== Articles == | === Articles === | ||
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* [[Microsoft.com - Asheron's Call Technical Information]] (Day and Night Cycle) | * [[Microsoft.com - Asheron's Call Technical Information]] (Day and Night Cycle) | ||
== Graphics Engine Updates == | === Graphics Engine Updates === | ||
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* [[Darkness Ascendant]] | * [[Darkness Ascendant]] | ||
** Colored lighting effects introduced. Many lights, including the sun and moon, will now cast colored light in both hardware and software modes. | ** Colored lighting effects introduced. Many lights, including the sun and moon, will now cast colored light in both hardware and software modes. | ||
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** Landscape distance fog reintroduced. | ** Landscape distance fog reintroduced. | ||
== Model & Texture Updates == | === Model & Texture Updates === | ||
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''Click each event link to see some before & after images'' | ''Click each event link to see some before & after images'' | ||
* [[Darkness Ascendant#Images|Darkness Ascendant]] | * [[Darkness Ascendant#Images|Darkness Ascendant]] | ||
Revision as of 01:42, 14 December 2011
Related topics: User Interface, Graphical Errors, Frequently Asked Questions
Articles
- Microsoft.com - Asheron's Call Technical Information (Day and Night Cycle)
Graphics Engine Updates
- Darkness Ascendant
- Colored lighting effects introduced. Many lights, including the sun and moon, will now cast colored light in both hardware and software modes.
- Throne of Destiny expansion
- AC: TD features an updated graphics engine that supports DirectX 9. Notable updates include:
- Updated from DirectX 7 to DirectX 9 and from 16-bit to 32-bit texture buffers.
- A complete texture update (6,500 textures).
- Some low-poly models (such as Gromnies and Monougas) updated.
- True Z-Buffering support.
- Native window mode (no more need to patch the client.)
- Anisotropic Filtering and V-Sync support.
- Basic lighting effects on your character.
- New pop-up windows for help system and trade skill interactions.
- 3D models of people and creatures are now shown in the ID panel instead of an icon.
- Software mode will no longer be supported.
- Weather Effects including landscape fog left out of new code base due to performance issues.
- AC: TD features an updated graphics engine that supports DirectX 9. Notable updates include:
- Toward Ancient Shores
- Lightning effects disabled due to complaints (you can still see the effect without the sound, however, at the Battlefield of Ayn Tayan).
- Shifting Gears
- Landscape distance fog reintroduced.
Model & Texture Updates
Click each event link to see some before & after images
- Darkness Ascendant
- Drudges
- Golems
- Hollow Victory
- Tuskers
- Chains of Command
- Underwear is now ivory/off-white instead of brown.
- The Widening Gyre
- Olthoi
- A Reign of Stone
- Lugians
- The Gathering Storm
- Mosswarts
- Cows (Image of Marae Lassel added to other side of Cows. Before it was just Dereth on one side)
- Flesh and Blood event
- Empyrean Stone Heads
- Festivus
- Banderlings
- The Madness of Men
- Gelidite Acolyte
- Gelidite Initiate
- Gelidite Lord
- Across the Vast Divide
- Small Creepy Statues
- A New Threat
- Ferns
- Mites
- From the Darkness Born
- Phyntos Wasps
- Throne of Destiny expansion
- Lifestone
- Gromnie
- Monouga
- Reedshark
- Skeleton
- Friend and Foe
- Tumeroks
- Reprisals
- Higher Resolution Textures activated for ToD clients. (From the Texture detail dropdown box, select Very High setting)
- Shifting Gears
- Landscape textures: grass, ice, desert etc
- Winter's Knight
- Pine Tree
- Shifting Shadows