Turning off Velious armor graphics?

[Ravun]

It's been a very long time, but some of the items that I distinctly remember having old world or classic plate graphics have velious textures instead. For example, I remember crystal chitin chest guards being worn by druids and phase spider carapace's being worn by monks and having the old world plate texture. I usually play half elfs and have always loved the look of the old world plate graphic more than the velious graphic.

Could I have possibly had these new textures turned off back when I was playing live? Is there an option to turn them on or off? I know that 15 year old memories aren't the best thing to rely on, but I remember having specific thoughts for years like "If I ever rolled a druid I would be a half elf and have a full suit of crystal chitin from velks." Or "I would wear a phase spider carapace on a human monk to have the plate graphic"

[dealicious]

EQFOLDER -> EQCLIENT.ini
---
LoadVeliousArmorsWithLuclin=FALSE
LoadVeliousArmor=TRUE
LoadArmor17=TRUE
LoadArmor18=TRUE
LoadArmor19=TRUE
LoadArmor20=TRUE
LoadArmor21=TRUE
LoadArmor22=TRUE
LoadArmor23=TRUE
LoadArmor24=TRUE
---
Turn all of this to FALSE!

[Ravun]

EQFOLDER -> EQCLIENT.ini
---
LoadVeliousArmorsWithLuclin=FALSE
LoadVeliousArmor=TRUE
LoadArmor17=TRUE
LoadArmor18=TRUE
LoadArmor19=TRUE
LoadArmor20=TRUE
LoadArmor21=TRUE
LoadArmor22=TRUE
LoadArmor23=TRUE
LoadArmor24=TRUE
---
Turn all of this to FALSE!

I did all of this, but there is no "LoadVeliousArmor=TRUE" in either of my eqclient.ini files. All the other ones are there and switched over to FALSE. I even used the find function and the word velious does not appear anywhere else in the file

[dealicious]

Well, is it working? If not add it yourself :)

[Ravun]

Added it. Everything is FALSE and still no luck :( Maybe the devs have it set so you can't change it?

[Rogean]

the devs have it set so you can't change it

[Ravun]

Haha oh wellll. Guess that helps me decide whether I'm alting a dark elf sk or half elf pally since the HEF velious plate looks horrible compared to DEF. Anyway, thanks for clearing that up Rogean.

[Cheech]

Is there going to be a change for this? Some of us do not like the textures.

[Pringles]

Not classic!

[Cheech]

Not classic!

Sure it is..

[Elysium]

definitely classic, especially if you were too poor to afford velious like I was. Not sure why they're forcing it here.

[Zaela]

Might be easy to work around, depending on how it's "forced"...

No chance of me playing on the server enough to see velious armor and test it myself, though.

[Pringles]

Sure it is..

I stand corrected. I didn't realize this came later In Velious (always remembered it as an option) but looks like it came just before Luclin eh?

[Ravun]

It most definitely was classic. I hardly played past velious, but had these textures turned off somehow in live. I'd love to hear a reasoning for the devs preventing this though. Not like we are trying to enable luclin models here...

[bktroost]

It most definitely was classic. I hardly played past velious, but had these textures turned off somehow in live. I'd love to hear a reasoning for the devs preventing this though. Not like we are trying to enable luclin models here...

Devs are Apple users. Clearly you are more of an android guy.

[Swish]

I don't like the majority of the Velious helmets, always thought they were done by some trainee artist who was given too much creative license and not enough direction... the armor for the most part is very nice though.

Would armor textures stop me playing a classic MMORPG? No sir.

[wormed]

Forcing Velious armor textures is definitely not classic. I remember always having the option to turn them off. You could keep the custom velious helm designs on and have the velious armor textures off.

[captnamazing]

Cheech your name is in direct violation of the naming policy.

[Sool]

So, is it normal to have all armors ( bronze, plate, planar ect ) looks with velious textures ?

[Borak]

Planar armor (from Fear/Hate, not PoG) does not have velious textures, I've seen it myself in-game.

[Sool]

On my screen, all kind of armor is with velious Skin

[Dac321]

So, is it normal to have all armors ( bronze, plate, planar ect ) looks with velious textures ?

No.