Warning, logging in while riding legacy nightmare

Kyronix

Victim_Of_Siege said:

Kyronix said:

Hello everyone, let me attempt to shed some light on this confusing situation.

There are two types of changes we can make to the game.  Client changes and server changes.

Client changes update the game clients (CC & EC).  This includes things like how paper doll art displays, what tile art looks like, and how the static map layer (the stuff you can't highlight with your cursor) looks.  These changes happen independent of server publishes.

This also includes how creatures (mobs/mobiles) look in the game.

Some number of years ago, the Nightmare could/would spawn in hue 1109.  At some point this was changed so that all Nightmares spawn in hue 0.

What this meant for the classic client is there are 4 different body types that display varying shades of black, a look that is baked into the character model for the creature.

In the enhanced client each of those 4 different body types pointed to the same model with the same texture (the dark horse).  So regardless of how your Nightmare looked in the CC, it always looked the same in the EC.

What this meant is that regardless of whether you had a hue 0 or a hue 1109 Nightmare, in the enhanced client, the Nightmare would almost look the same, with a barely noticeable difference.  That is because the character model's texture was not setup to hue like other creatures in the game.

We recently updated the Enhanced Client version of the Nightmare character model texture so that it could show hue in anticipation of offering unique colors of this popular creature.

This was an enhanced client change only, and only impacts how the creature displays in the enhanced client so that the appearance of the creature would look better when hued.

Nightmare hues have not been retroactively changed in any way. If you have an old nightmare that was hue 1109, it will still be 1109. Similarly, the default hue for nightmares is still hue 0.

Hope this answers some confusion.

That clears it for me But why is @ Pawain displaying as a female Fire elemental?? Enquiring minds want to know . . .

He’s spicy.

Theo

is anyone going to ask why the art for a horse in EC looks so bad compared to CC?  Thats crazy.  It looks like some sort of big fluffy dog.