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Revision as of 10:45, 3 December 2011

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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

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
- Hairstyles

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 *** [[What happened to the weather in AC?|Weather Effect]]s including landscape fog left out of new code base due to performance issues.
 * [[Toward Ancient Shores]]
-** Lightning effects turned off/removed.
+** 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.