Graphics

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.
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.

Click each event link to see some before & after images

Event	Models/Textures Updated
Darkness Ascendant	Drudges, Golems
Hollow Victory	Tuskers
Chains of Command	Character Underwear
The Widening Gyre	Olthoi
A Reign of Stone	Lugians
The Gathering Storm	Mosswarts, Cows
Flesh and Blood	Empyrean Stone Head
Festivus	Banderlings
The Madness of Men	Gelidite Acolyte, Gelidite Initiate, Gelidite Lord
Across the Vast Divide	Small Creepy Statues
A New Threat	Fern Plants, Mites
From the Darkness Born	Phyntos Wasps
Throne of Destiny	Lifestone, Gromnies, Monougas, Reedsharks, Skeletons
Friend and Foe	Tumeroks
Shifting Gears	Landscape: Grass, Ice, Desert etc
Winter's Knight	Pine Trees
Quiet Before the Storm	Aluvian Doors
Shifting Shadows	Hairstyles

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