Character Models Not Displaying

[Brumar]

Hello,

I played EQ back in the 2000-2006 era and love the idea of Project 1999. I am attempting to install it on my mid-2015 Mac Book Pro (on Catalina 10.15) on a Windows 10 virtual machine using VirtualBox. I followed steps here and obtained my EQ titanium .iso files after seeing this page. I believe I installed everything correctly and copy pasted the contents of the Project1999V55 files in the correct place. When I launch via the "Launch Titanium.bat", everything seems to run smoothly except no player models or NPC models (monsters are not showing up either).

My attempts so far:
1. I've scanned the forums desperately for a fix and see many people have had this issue. It seems the fix for most people is editing eqclient.ini to turn "VertexShaders", "20PixelShaders", "14PixelShaders", "1xPixelShaders" all to "FALSE". I've done this and the problem persists.
2. I've disabled all of the racial/gendered Luclin models in eqclient.ini e.g. "UseLuclinHumanMale" set to FALSE. (default had them all enabled)

I'm hoping some lovely soul can answers some/all of the following questions
1. Has anyone else experienced a fix beyond what I've already tried?
2. Does anyone have ideas of the most likely culprit? Even knowing what to look for on the forums might help me find a fix.
3. Is it possible or likely to be a problem with the version of EQ Titanium I obtained?
4. Is there a way to test that I've properly moved over the Project1999V55 files? I simply unzipped, then copy & pasted all contents into the "Everquest" folder that was create when installing EQ Titanium. (note: I installed EQ Titanium in a folder in "Documents" since people said installing in program files could cause problems)

Thank you all for the time and help in supporting the community of this awesome project. I feel I've already been given my first quest... to collect the magical assortment of settings, installations and files to get the dang thing to run!

P.S. I tried to get it up and running using unofficial wineskin and making a wrapper, but that was a bit of a dead-end since apparently Mac OS 10.15 and above simply do not support 32 bit programs. If anyone knows some mysterious work around, I'm happy to hear those suggestions, too!