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== Graphics Engine Updates == | == Graphics Engine Updates == | ||
* [[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. | ||
* [[Throne of Destiny]] expansion | * [[Throne of Destiny]] expansion | ||
** AC: TD features an updated graphics engine that supports DirectX 9. Notable updates include: | ** 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). | *** A complete texture update (6,500 textures). | ||
*** Some low-poly models (such as Gromnies and Monougas) updated. | *** Some low-poly models (such as Gromnies and Monougas) updated. | ||
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*** New pop-up windows for help system and trade skill interactions. | *** 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. | *** 3D models of people and creatures are now shown in the ID panel instead of an icon. | ||
*** Software mode will no longer be supported. | |||
*** [[What happened to the weather in AC?|Weather Effect]]s including landscape fog left out of new code base due to performance issues. | *** [[What happened to the weather in AC?|Weather Effect]]s including landscape fog left out of new code base due to performance issues. | ||
* [[Shifting Gears]] | * [[Shifting Gears]] | ||
Revision as of 15:57, 20 November 2011
Related topics: Graphical Errors, Frequently Asked Questions
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:
- Shifting Gears
- Landscape distance fog reintroduced.
Model & 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
- 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
- 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
GUI Updates
- ?