Editing Graphics (section)

== Graphics Engine Updates ==
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! Event
! Updates
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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.
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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]]
| Higher Resolution Textures activated for ToD clients. (From the Texture detail dropdown box, select Very High setting)
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| [[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]]).
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| [[Shifting Gears]]
| Landscape distance fog reintroduced.
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| [[The Risen Princess]]
| Weather effects reintroduced.
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