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Articles
Graphics Engine Updates
| Event
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New Animation
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| Darkness Ascendant
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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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| Throne of Destiny Expansion
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- 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.
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| Reprisals
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Higher Resolution Textures activated for ToD clients. (From the Texture detail dropdown box, select Very High setting)
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| Toward Ancient Shores
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Lightning effects disabled due to complaints (you can still see the effect without the sound, however, at the Battlefield of Ayn Tayan).
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| Shifting Gears
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Landscape distance fog reintroduced.
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Model & Texture Updates
Click each event link to see some before & after images
| Event
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Models/Textures Updated
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| Darkness Ascendant
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Drudges, Golems
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| Hollow Victory
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Tuskers
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| Chains of Command
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Character Underwear
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| The Widening Gyre
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Olthoi
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| A Reign of Stone
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Lugians
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| The Gathering Storm
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Mosswarts, Cows
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| Flesh and Blood
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Empyrean Stone Head
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| Festivus
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Banderlings, Thumbs added to hands
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| The Madness of Men
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Gelidite Acolyte, Gelidite Initiate, Gelidite Lord
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| Across the Vast Divide
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Small Creepy Statues
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| A New Threat
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Fern Plants, Mites
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| Pillars Made of Sand
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Mosswart Idols
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| From the Darkness Born
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Phyntos Wasps
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| Throne of Destiny Expansion
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Lifestone, Gromnies, Monougas, Reedsharks, Skeletons
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| Friend and Foe
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Tumeroks
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| Shifting Gears
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Landscape: Grass, Ice, Desert etc
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| Winter's Knight
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Pine Trees
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| Quiet Before the Storm
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Aluvian Doors
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| Shifting Shadows
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Hairstyles
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Animations
| Event
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New Animation
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| Thorns of the Hopeslayer
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Casting portal recall spells now make you play some purple bubbly physics scripts for about two seconds before blipping you away.
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| Twilight's Gleaming
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New logout motion and animation. Now, when a player logs out, they get purple bubbly effects and fade out.
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| The Widening Gyre
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When you pick up something from a different height the animation is different -- arm swipe only, no bending.
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| The First Strike
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New animation for the house recall function that more closely mirrors the duration of the recall.
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| Atonement
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The animations and sounds from double- and triple-striking just weren't cool enough, so we tweaked them slightly. Thrill at the enhanced swinging action!
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| Visions in the Darkness
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New animations for @lifestone, @marketplace, and @pklite commands.
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| Quiet Before the Storm
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The Logout/Lifestone animation has been changed to have a smoother looking animation.
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Misc Changes