Editing Graphics

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== Articles ==
* [[Microsoft Games Archive/Technical/Toby Ragaini Interview|Toby Ragaini discusses AC's Weather Effects]]

== 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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== Model & Texture Updates ==
''Click each event link to see some before & after images''

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! Event
! Models/Textures Updated
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| [[Darkness Ascendant#Images|Darkness Ascendant]]
| [[Drudges]], [[Golems]]
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| [[Hollow Victory#Images|Hollow Victory]]
| [[Tuskers]]
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| [[Chains of Command#Images|Chains of Command]]
| Character Underwear
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| [[The Widening Gyre#Images|The Widening Gyre]]
| [[Olthoi]]
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| [[A Reign of Stone#Images|A Reign of Stone]]
| [[Lugian]]s
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| [[The Gathering Storm#Images|The Gathering Storm]]
| [[Mosswart]]s, [[Cow]]s
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| [[Flesh and Blood#Images|Flesh and Blood]]
| [[Empyrean Stone Head]]
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| [[Festivus#Images|Festivus]]
| [[Banderling]]s, Human hands updated with thumbs
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| [[Mirror, Mirror#Images|Mirror, Mirror]]
| Armored [[Skeleton]]s, Armored [[Undead]]
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| [[The Madness of Men#Images|The Madness of Men]]
| [[Gelidite Acolyte]], [[Gelidite Initiate]], [[Gelidite Lord]]
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| [[Across the Vast Divide#Images|Across the Vast Divide]]
| [[Small Creepy Statue]]s
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| [[A New Threat#Images|A New Threat]]
| Fern Plants, [[Mites]]
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| [[Pillars Made of Sand#Images|Pillars Made of Sand]]
| [[Idol|Mosswart Idols]]
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| [[From the Darkness Born#Images|From the Darkness Born]]
| [[Phyntos Wasps]]
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| [[Throne of Destiny#Images|Throne of Destiny]] Expansion
| [[Lifestone]], [[Gromnie]]s, [[Monouga]]s, [[Reedshark]]s, [[Skeleton]]s
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| [[Friend and Foe#Images|Friend and Foe]]
| [[Tumeroks]]
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| [[Announcements - 2010/06 - Shifting Gears#Teaser Images|Shifting Gears]]
| Landscape: Grass, Ice, Desert etc
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| [[Winter's Knight]]
| Pine Trees
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| [[Quiet Before the Storm#Images|Quiet Before the Storm]]
| Aluvian [[Door]]s
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| [[Shifting Shadows]]
| [[Barbers and Hairstyles|Hairstyles]]
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== Animation Updates ==
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! Event
! New Animation
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| [[Thorns of the Hopeslayer]]
| Casting portal recall spells now make you play some purple bubbly physics scripts for about two seconds before blipping you away.
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| [[Twilight's Gleaming]]
| New logout motion and animation. Now, when a player logs out, they get purple bubbly effects and fade out.
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| [[The Widening Gyre]]
| When you pick up something from a different height the animation is different -- arm swipe only, no bending.
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| [[The First Strike]]
| New animation for the house recall function that more closely mirrors the duration of the recall.
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| [[Atonement]]
| The animations and sounds from double- and triple-striking just weren't cool enough, so we tweaked them slightly. Thrill at the enhanced swinging action!
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| [[Visions in the Darkness]]
| New animations for @lifestone, @marketplace, and @pklite commands.
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| [[A New Threat]]
| New backflip animation for [[Mites]].
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| [[Quiet Before the Storm]]
| The Logout/Lifestone animation has been changed to have a smoother looking animation.
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== Misc Changes ==
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* [[Shadow]] creatures now transparent.
{|
|[[File:Panumbris Shadow (Old) Live.jpg|thumb|100px|Before]]
|[[File:Panumbris Shadow Live.jpg|thumb|100px|After]]
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[[Should the Stars Fall]]
* The animation speed for equipping and un-equipping bows and crossbows has been increased.
[[The Gathering Storm]]
* Nighttime visibility has been increased.
[[Dead of Winter]]
* Snow texture brightness reduced.

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