Graphics

Related topics: Graphical Errors, Frequently Asked Questions

Graphics Engine Updates

• Darkness Ascendant
  • "Colored lighting! 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:
    • A complete texture update (65,000 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.
    • Weather Effects including landscape fog left out of new code base due to performance issues.
• Shifting Gears
  • Landscape distance fog reintroduced.

Texture Updates

• Darkness Ascendant
  • Drudges
  • Golems
• Hollow Victory
  • Tuskers
• 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
• Throne of Destiny expansion
  • Lifestone
  • Gromnie
  • Monouga
  • Skeleton
• Friend and Foe
  • Tumeroks
• Across the Vast Divide
  • Small Creepy Statues
• The Madness of Men
  • Gelidite Acolyte
  • Gelidite Initiate
  • Gelidite Lord
• A New Threat
  • Ferns
  • Mites
• 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

GUI Updates

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