Miscellaneous: Kedge is too bright

[girth]

I would go so far as to say the newer client handles lighting differently. On live, I remember having to go all the way back to Halas to buy a torch because I could not make it through the darkness in the tunnel to BB.

[mmiles8]

Originally Posted by girth [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I would go so far as to say the newer client handles lighting differently. On live, I remember having to go all the way back to Halas to buy a torch because I could not make it through the darkness in the tunnel to BB.

That's because there are torches in the tunnel that weren't there in classic.

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[girth]

Originally Posted by mmiles8 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

That's because there are torches in the tunnel that weren't there in classic.

This is a post taken from Allakhazam, obviously showing that it was still pitch black in between the torches.

Blind in the Dark in the tunnel to Blackburrow
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For barbarians and all other humans who can't see in the dark: when you're on a corpse run with no light source, how do you find your way through that pitch black tunnel?

From the top, it's easy.

1. Walk toward the first torch.
2. Walk past the torch.
3. Turn around and walk backwards away from the torch.
4. At some point your back starts to slide along the curve of a wall, and eventually you are around a corner and cannot see that torch any longer.
5. Now turn around. You'll see another torch. Walk toward that torch.
6. Repeat steps 2 through 5 seven times.
7. After the seventh torch fades around the corner, you are at the Blackburrow zone: turn 90 degrees to your left, and zone in.


Going up from Blackburrow is a little trickier, because you can't see the first torch when you zone in. But simply go forward just a little, turn to your left, and you will see it. Follow the same procedure as above, and you will come out into the snow

Care to try again? Lighting is different, there is even another thread about this somewhere on here where doacleric mentions some of it was content changes, some of it was client changes, and some of it is due to newer technologies.

[dali_lb]

That is pretty logic.
We are using a client from what 2006 ? (titanium)

The old game engine didn't have advanced lightning as it was designed uppon 3ds drivers (Woodoo cards). Advanced TnL came with the first Nvidia TNT or TNT2 cards and was a DX7 feature and went in around Velius time

And yes. It really was that bad as the post from Alla about tunnel to BB ...
Barbs and humies were tottaly blind without a torch, and even with a torch you could just barely see in a 10-20 feet radius.

If you absolutely want to try emulate this go into advanced graphics setup, and turn everything with lightning, shadows and shader effects off.

You may even have to look in eg. your Nvidia Control Panel (Windows) and see if its set to enhance your eqgame.exe 's performance.