According to the assignment, the character will have to go to the city of Daggerfall, where the spirit of the ancient king rests. This entity should be released and sent to the other world, and then find out why the encrypted message did not reach the spy girl. This letter specifies the exact location of the Energy Drive, which will aid in the resurrection of the Iron Golem. This creature, called Numidium, once upon a time helped the Emperor build his kingdom from scratch..
He learns that this energy has been seized by the ruler of the underworld, who awakens after a long sleep. To transfer the manuscripts, the player will have to find the killer of the ancient spirit, destroy him, free the ghost from being on earth, and only then freely dispose of the engine and the records necessary to start.
For more convenient movement and orientation in all locations, a map is available to the gamer. It depicts more than 40 cities, each of which can be visited thanks to the open world.
Projecting shadows from 2D billboards comes with downsides. These are just 2D cutouts rotating to face camera, so their shadow either twists and turns with billboard or stays fixed in place.
Fixed shadows look better overall, but results in any asymmetry becoming disconnected from cutout when seen from the wrong angle. Nature shadows had other tradeoffs too. In deferred rendering, screen objects always receive shadows, which means trees received self-shadow artifacts while rotating. This in turn created other problems with rendering elements relying on depth information.
After trialling more solutions and workarounds, it became obvious these shadows were causing too many issues for a minor aesthetic hack that only looked good some of the time. If you prefer these nature shadows despite their limitations, you can switch them back on by opening settings.
Please keep in mind that enabling nature shadows will revert them to transparent rendering queue, so trees and other nature billboards will not operate fully with effects requiring depth information — Ambient Occlusion, Retro Mode Postprocess, ColorBoost, to name a few.
The feature also comes with postprocess settings for palettization or posterization to crush palette down to fewer colours with neat side-effects like colour banding from nearby light sources. From 0. You can access these settings from drop-down arrow at top-left of screen when game is on pause menu. In addition to previous settings for retro mode and postprocess, you now have the option to adjust render scale into or Enabling either of these settings will scale output to selected aspect ratio inside your actual screen area.
If you have a wider screen, e. Now with this in Game Effects UI, you can switch around these settings at runtime without restarting game.
This is now all handled automatically in-game from checkboxes shown above, along with fixes for problems created by the old FreeScaling option.
One final note about Retro Mode — now that you can switch settings at runtime and change aspect ratio, not all mods will support runtime switching of resolution or aspect.
Any mods rendering to a stacked camera e. Enhanced Sky, Distant Terrain will need added support for runtime resolution switching update: Enhanced Sky has this support from v3. Also custom UI mods might need to add aspect handling based on how they calculate screen position.
If you have problems with a mod in Retro Mode, try restarting game, switching off aspect correction, or switching off Retro Mode entirely. The best way to introduce ColorBoost is by talking about darkness in dungeons. This is technically a requirement of lower draw distance in classic, but it creates a uniquely claustrophobic feeling.
In classic, even light sources fade into darkness at range. See below classic screenshots for example. Note how environment around player is rather bright then ramps down into blackness at farthest point. If you walk down toward that farthest point and turn around, now the brightly lit area near throne is plunged into darkness and world near player is bright instead.
Step back a few more metres and area above stairs becomes totally black. Even those bright torches will fade away. Lights have radius and intensity, and geometry is either touched by some amount light or not. Note how distant torches still affect the wall behind them, and scene overall is rather uniform in brightness. Now ColorBoost comes into play. This postprocessing effect can both increase brightness near player and produce ramp down into darkness inside dungeons.
Compare above screen with one below, and note difference in contrast between near and far points. Even the torches start to fade into darkness at range. In addition to atmosphere, this gives you another way to tune brightness to your preference. Some ColorBoost will brighten things up without completely flattening or over-brightening whole scene.
The dungeon falloff effect has adjustable strength down to 0 disabled. But you can enable ColorBoost at any time, with or without Retro Mode, and it will work alongside your mods, lighting setup, and other settings. Everyone can have a unique setup and world can light very differently as a result.
For this reason, ColorBoost config page has several sliders to help dial-in Radius of effect, global Intensity, strength of effect in Dungeons, Exteriors, Interiors, and control Dungeon Falloff. Like all effects, ColorBoost is disabled by default. We have now reached the end of rendering review in 0.
Moving forward, there are no more large changes scheduled to engine or rendering, only bug fixes and minor refinements. This is to ensure best possible stability and mod compatibility moving towards 1. If you are a mod author, please ensure your mod is rebuilt and tested compatible for 0. Our rendering update and review continues with 0.
This release fixes bugs, expands capabilities of new shaders, and helps mods reach compatibility with 0. While this was suitable for classic textures, and mod authors could still use custom PBR materials in their.
We also fixed several problems loading these optional maps in asset pipeline and extended this PBR support to terrain tilemap shader. These new capabilities in default shaders allow mods to intentionally reintroduce specular based on their materials, while still avoiding unwanted specular when using classic textures only. The big advantage of rolling our own shaders is more control over the rendering process. Without proper alpha blending at the time, DOS Daggerfall used a stippling effect for water surface a kind of black pixely noise and a bright blue fog effect when submerged.
Daggerfall Unity improves water surface with a dark water plane and slime highlights, invoking murky and stagnant water suitable for dungeons. But when you submerge, we used the same bright blue fog effect underwater. Shout-out to King of Worms for his persistence around tweaking dungeon water and driving this change. On the subject of feedback, we heard several times the brightness of default and item-based torch were retuned improperly and looked too dark.
Screenshot below compares local torch brightness when using a lantern with item-based torch in 0. In addition to torch brightness, we also heard that retro rendering mode is too dark and tends to crush colours towards black.
During this review, we noted classic dungeons are very bright near player then ramp down to near black based on distance from camera.
The solution was to introduce a new effect called ColorBoost to default shaders which juices up colours local to player and ramps down over a short distance.
This better matches brightness contrast seen in classic, and will help players tune dungeons and nights to properly select brighter colours in retro mode local to player. ColorBoost is not a lighting effect, rather it scales albedo near camera so that brighter colours will be selected in post-process.
ColorBoost will be available from 0. You can see a preview of it in this tweet. This required updates to both mods and core. Mod authors should have compatible mods released soon now 0.
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