Darkness

[Secrets]

I did something similar to this by hijacking dynamic lighting. Lighting used to be static, so by forcing all lighting to be one value, you'd fix this.

Unfortunately I never looked into it past disabling lighting entirely, but I am fairly certain it's possible to do.

[Haul]

Ya this feature added to the difficulty for sure, good times.

[Slothslayer]

Agreed. Call me a glutton for punishment but it would be sweet if they added it.
After all I play a human. :P

[Darkwulf58]

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While, yes, newer monitors and the gamma setting affect this as well. The newer clients are coded to not be quite as dark as Classic was. It's part of the new enhanced lighting system. Newer clients are even less dark to some degree.

But yes, as previously stated, turning down your gamma will help negate this effect. I personally always play at 10%. Looks better not just in game but the UI looks better at this darkness level as well imo.

Thats why I see Rainbowdash bouncing off things like a pinball.

[doacleric]

I think it would be more productive to hack the client to run in DirectX 8 mode, which would probably allow the use of classic sky, original darkness, old spells, etc etc etc.

[doacleric]

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Is this dark enough for you? This is how the Karanas looks for me on my Human. This is of course with my enhanced sky graphics files.

[Slave]

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

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Is this dark enough for you? This is how the Karanas looks for me on my Human. This is of course with my enhanced sky graphics files.

NO. This is not how it used to be. EverQuest was IMMERSIVE sir.

"It's night and I can't see danger in front of me" -Has anybody here seen my corpse?

[ArumTP]

True classic would barely see that tiny pine tree.

[doacleric]

Turn your ingame brightness down then. Mine is at 26% I believe. It still won't make it "classic" brightness, but it does get you closer. You may also need to turn the brightness on your LCD down. There is a huge difference between old CRT's which could barely push 100cd/m2 and newer LCD's which can reach 400+cd/m2 at max brightness.

[Slothslayer]

I turned my in-game gamma down to 10%. I'm happy with how it looks now. Still not quite as blind as a bat as i remember being though... lol