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deadlycupcakez
10-20-2019, 11:35 PM
Hi team - I hopped in the beta to start getting ready for Fridays launch and I noticed the upgraded night vision. Yay!

I did some hunting and got myself a fire beetle eye, but when equipping it I still cannot see anything other than my nameplate and a black screen at night (I am an Erudite). I was not expecting much, but I did assume I would have a slight glow around my feet that would allow me to see pieces of my character outline.

I checked with some players in game, and they confirmed they could see me slightly illuminated, but myself and others are just nameplates.

Am I missing a file or have a setting tweaked strangely? Any assistance would be appreciated!
kylok
10-21-2019, 03:26 AM
It sounds like you have dynamic lighting turned off. It needs to be on for the lighting changes on green to work (possibly on blue as well) it's a line in the ini file that needs to be = TRUE. I don't recall what it is off the top of my head unfortunately.
magusfire24
10-21-2019, 04:37 AM
It sounds like you have dynamic lighting turned off. It needs to be on for the lighting changes on green to work (possibly on blue as well) it's a line in the ini file that needs to be = TRUE. I don't recall what it is off the top of my head unfortunately.

Showdynamiclights=TRUE

do a ctrl F in notepad for dynamic and pretty easy to find.
Wenai
10-21-2019, 05:00 AM
Showdynamiclights=TRUE

do a ctrl F in notepad for dynamic and pretty easy to find.
I would be careful editing some of these text files with Notepad. On the UI team while adjusting some of the hard coded text in stringdb_us.txt we ran into some crashes and stuff because of how Notepad formats it’s file/text. We had better results editing with Notepad++. Unsure if you will run into the same problems. But just a heads up in case.
magusfire24
10-21-2019, 07:45 AM
Good tip Wenai. I did not realize that could be an issue. Will keep that in mind in the future.
deadlycupcakez
10-21-2019, 01:23 PM
Thanks all! I will attempt this fix later today
deadlycupcakez
10-21-2019, 02:13 PM
Ugh ragepost - how does a noob locate the ini file that needs editing :P im currently just opening every text document to try and find it
magusfire24
10-21-2019, 02:18 PM
it is in the everquest folder. Eqclient.ini you can search for it at the top of the window or order things alphabetically
Deathrydar
10-21-2019, 02:21 PM
Ugh ragepost - how does a noob locate the ini file that needs editing :P im currently just opening every text document to try and find it

Sometimes it is in the AppFile folder under your user ID in Documents and Settings.
magusfire24
10-21-2019, 02:27 PM
Sometimes it is in the AppFile folder under your user ID in Documents and Settings.

Yeah I really hate how games started to do that. Put it in Program Files LOL Actually I just put mine on C:\everquest project 99 blue and everquest project 99 green .

Nice thing about an old program like EQ. you can move it all over the place and it dont care.

In fact one thing I usually do with eq once I have it setup right. Esp a custom server like this, is I take the folder and back it up to a second harddrive. Then if something gets messed up just copy back over.