Turbine Games Q&A/Graphics

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Graphics

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2001.07.25	Any chance of MIP mapping support?
2001.03.17	Win2000 and DX8
2001.03.15	How do weapon (melee) animations work?
2001.02.08	Why are some tiles in the landscape missing?
2001.01.23	Can you explain the difficulties of Buildings in laymans terms?
2001.01.12	Bending figures in AC
2001.01.10	New Skins?
2001.01.10	Dose AC have a problem with 64mb cards?
2001.01.07	3d Prophet II graphics prob
2001.01.07	Will the Voodoo 5 be supported
2001.01.06	What 3D Software do you guys use to make models?
2001.01.05	Follow on to the black lines in graphics issue
2001.01.04	Will there be any official support for Window-mode?
2001.01.04	White dudes everywhere!
2001.01.03	Black lines in graphics
2001.01.03	What is the difference between the textures used by walls and water?
2001.01.02	What video card do you use?
2001.01.01	3D Accelerators
2000.12.08	Why is the game so dark???
2000.12.06	RE: portal colors
2000.12.05	SoLL: An alpha tester?
2000.12.04	How is net speed and framerate related?
2000.12.04	Is my client-side avatar rendered different from other people?
2000.11.30	What program do you make dungeon's in?
2000.11.30	New Models vs Upgrading Previous Models
2000.11.29	New heaume look...
2000.11.25	Any intentions to upgrade the textures (look) on any armors?
2000.11.24	The Northern Light
2000.11.24	Less vague graphics question
2000.11.22	Does the character shape change with attributes?
2000.11.22	T-Buffer Support
2000.11.22	Black Boulder and Infused SoLL looks
2000.11.22	Fatal lag when loading new towns and areas.
2000.11.21	Sky Sphere instead of Sky Plane
2000.11.20	Rendering Radius vs. Portal Time
2000.11.19	Can you change Atlan sword icons?
2000.11.18	Is it possible to jump over a water wall?
2000.11.17	Can you please change that tower in the distance on Aerlinthe?
2000.11.16	New Islands
2000.11.16	Bee hives?
2000.11.15	What is the engine so limited?
2000.11.15	Would it be possible to see Elemental weapons act as a light source someday?
2000.11.15	Can we have weapons with a particle effect blade?
2000.11.15	Double bladed axe
2000.11.13	Why do Scale Cuirasses look exaclty like Yoroi Cuirasses in the inventory?
2000.11.12	Why are there 2 slot areas in kill menus?
2000.11.12	Can we get new Black Fire Atlan graphics
2000.11.12	Branith's Blazing Staff.. Why is it boring?
2000.11.12	AC and nVidia 6.xx graphic glitches
2000.11.12	Hollow weapons and particle effects fitting weapon size.
2000.11.11	Why don't Ravenous weaps have particle effects?
2000.11.10	Will Direct X 8.0 help AC any?
2000.11.10	Elemental Weapons
2000.11.10	Contact Shadows
2000.11.09	Why does graphic driver upgrade cause poor game performance?
2000.11.09	Why do MOBs render at different ranges on screen?
2000.11.09	What's up with the HUGE Ogre Mask?
2000.11.07	Software Rendering vs 3dfx
2000.11.07	Capes/cloaks
2000.11.07	Why do the hollows, ravs, crystal items and shadows not stay transparent?
2000.11.07	Why were "real" shadows omitted from the graphics?
2000.11.07	Weather
2000.11.07	What was wrnog with old graphics
2000.11.07	3Dfx Card Problem
2000.11.06	Armor graphics
2000.11.06	Are the cities visible on one of the moons going to be used in the near future?
2000.11.06	Is my Hollow Katar supposed to place the orbiting lights behind me?
2000.11.06	Will we see any new features to the 3D engine?
2000.11.06	Will Atlan Weapon Special Effect be Updated?
2000.11.06	New plants colors ?
2000.11.05	Colors of wearable items don't match...
2000.11.05	nVidia GTS2 - graphical glitches
2000.11.05	Atlan Staffs through the body
2000.11.05	Shadow Celdon Graphical Makeover
2000.11.05	Helmets-- we gonna get old one and new ones
2000.11.04	Adjusting in game brightness.
2000.11.04	Can I turn off the spell visiuals please ?
2000.11.03	Can Night Mode be turned off?
2000.11.03	Elaboration on "Why do necklace graphics not have jewels, just sockets?"
2000.11.02	Why are Banderling Breeders so ugly?
2000.11.02	Why do necklace graphics not have jewels, just sockets?
2000.11.02	Any chance for a texture upgrade for a virindi?
2000.11.01	Compass View
2000.11.01	Z Buffer: aka, "That boulder is eating your head"
2000.11.01	Hardware T&L; support.
2000.11.01	4 Graphics detail settings
2000.10.31	Grey sack cloth underthings
2000.10.31	Hair styles
2000.10.31	The bat
2000.10.31	Why do pyreals have an "S" on them?
2000.10.31	Can we see a longer distance of objects been displayed?
2000.10.31	If you can't parent a particle emitter to the human body ...
2000.10.31	What is game scale, kilometers or what?
2000.10.31	Hair styles and dye
2000.10.31	Default Settings in Sound/Graphics
2000.10.31	Staff graphics
2000.10.30	Player graphics getting luv?
2000.10.26	Item magic icon colors...
2000.10.26	*sigh* -- possible emote?
2000.10.25	(X)Bow Animation?
2000.10.25	Are the particle effects generated by the advocate aegis random or in a pattern?