Restoring Classic Environmental Particle Effects

[Telin]

Hail,

I intend to recreate all the missing environmental particle effects, but I need some help remembering all the areas that had them. If anyone remembers or would like to do some research then post any screenshots or describe the location in your replies. That would be of great help.

Here are a couple that will be restored on P99 in the next patch. These are the Disco 1 and 2 camps in Sebilis.

https://i.imgur.com/RlS3540.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/TL3kfCx.jpg

- Telin

[Baler]

wow very cool! Thank you! :D

[skarlorn]

This has restored my moistness particles

[TheOutdoorNerd]

Hot action.

[Gozuk]

Totally forgot that existed. I don't remember any other areas off the top of my head. I love it though thanks so much

[Sorn]

What I've found so far (for reference):

Crystal Caverns - the spider tunnel, two places
Burning Woods - the trees are on fire and the ground is smoking! Ahhh! But only in the burned out places.
Skyfire - The ground is smoking in a ton of places and the lava has little flame particle things
Veeshan's Peak - the entry platform has sparkles and the lava has the little flame particle things
Eastern Wastes - the globe for Sleeper's Tomb has sparkles
Throughout Velious - Firepots and campfires let out fat smoke signals, the oversized torches in Kael also have tiny ones
City of Mist - one spot in the temple

I will continue to explore on live. I tried going through Sleeper's Tomb but things were legit trying to murder me in there so I gave up. For some reason I was apprehensive in VP so I was able to run through everything unimpeded. (You no longer need a key to get into these places, so everything through Velious is accessible on live for those who want to research.)

[Hyperbole]

Respect Telin, thanks for your continued work on the game.

[Phenyo]

pras

[Jimjam]

No green until all floor sparkles are seen!

[Rygar]

I've never been to PoG on P99, are the waterfalls working in there?

[Lhancelot]

Man I can't recall any particle effects. :(

Glad some people recall such details! TY Telin.

[skarlorn]

I've said it before but I want to say it again. Telin is fucking amazing. He focuses on some of the most obscure shit that I never knew about, but once it's in OT makes the world better. New moon gfx. Renaming water elemental to a water elemental. These are the patch notes I love to read!

[Jimjam]

I've never been to PoG on v zzP99, are the waterfalls working in there?

You can hear it, but there are no waterfall particles to be seen.

[Rygar]

Telin, I believe this is the north wall waterfall. Not sure on the other one in PoG

https://www.fullblown.com/sod/images/waterfall.jpg

[Check12345]

I've said it before but I want to say it again. Telin is fucking amazing. He focuses on some of the most obscure shit.

Telin, the 'wrong' doors in the PoM castle are supposed to proc Dragon Roar when clicked.

Come on man, doo eet.

[Erati]

Telin, the 'wrong' doors in the PoM castle are supposed to proc Dragon Roar when clicked.

Come on man, doo eet.

In the room with only doors and the Hand in the middle?

[Lulz~Sect]

Man I can't recall any particle effects. :(

Glad some people recall such details! TY Telin.

[Check12345]

In the room with only doors and the Hand in the middle?

Main hall actually, with Bob.

[Erati]

Main hall actually, with Bob.

okay yes those doors that never open are suppose to fear you??

find ze evidence lets bug report

[Check12345]

okay yes those doors that never open are suppose to fear you??

find ze evidence lets bug report

Challenge Accepted!

I posted it as a bug in this thread.
https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=247408

Looks like I never changed my enchanters logfile on eqmac so we have 180mb of logs.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2hyH6hWe0FbMFFRNXZSckpwUFE/view

Me and another player were raising our faction with denizens of mischief to ally to see if Vinny would finally talk to us about taking over, but they nuked the server when we were warmly.

[Tue Aug 27 09:14:57 2013] Your faction standing with Denizens of Mischief got worse.
[Tue Aug 27 09:14:57 2013] You gain party experience!!

[Tue Aug 27 09:16:44 2013] a door begins to cast a spell.
[Tue Aug 27 09:16:44 2013] You resist the Dragon Roar spell!

[Tue Aug 27 09:17:25 2013] a pristine gate begins to cast a spell.
[Tue Aug 27 09:17:26 2013] Your skin returns to normal.
[Tue Aug 27 09:17:26 2013] Your mind returns to normal.
[Tue Aug 27 09:17:26 2013] Your grace fades.
[Tue Aug 27 09:17:26 2013] The avian spirit departs.
[Tue Aug 27 09:17:26 2013] You feel very dispelled.
[Tue Aug 27 09:17:49 2013] Vinny V. D`vicci says 'Nice work kid. Now I'm feelin lucky. So's ya say ya wanna learn about cards right? Lemme tell ya. Them cards are nice but lets have some REAL fun. Yer resourceful, I like that. What say we take over this joint fer ourselves? Ol' Bristle's gettin soft, ya know? Wadda ya say? Man or mouse?'
[Tue Aug 27 09:17:49 2013] Your faction standing with Denizens of Mischief got better.
[Tue Aug 27 09:17:49 2013] You gain party experience!!
[Tue Aug 27 09:17:53 2013] Herv saved.
[Tue Aug 27 09:17:54 2013] You say, 'man'
[Tue Aug 27 09:17:55 2013] Vinny V. D`vicci says 'Foist ya gotta help my brudda Bob. Getcherself one of em books `es talkin about. Den.. ya`s gotta find me dem woids of wealth. Well? Watcha standin here gawkin at me for? Get movin!'

[Erati]

Challenge Accepted!

I posted it as a bug in this thread.
https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=247408

Looks like I never changed my enchanters logfile on eqmac so we have 180mb of logs.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2hyH6hWe0FbMFFRNXZSckpwUFE/view

Me and another player were raising our faction with denizens of mischief to ally to see if Vinny would finally talk to us about taking over, but they nuked the server when we were warmly.

[Tue Aug 27 09:14:57 2013] Your faction standing with Denizens of Mischief got worse.
[Tue Aug 27 09:14:57 2013] You gain party experience!!

[Tue Aug 27 09:16:44 2013] a door begins to cast a spell.
[Tue Aug 27 09:16:44 2013] You resist the Dragon Roar spell!

'


WOW nice logs - also why are you killing Vinny :(

[Check12345]

WOW nice logs - also why are you killing Vinny :(

We were killing stomples then doing hand ins after, were trying to get ally with vinny! ;)

[Amyas]

awesome! thank you

[Rygar]

Telin, I believe this is the north wall waterfall. Not sure on the other one in PoG

https://www.fullblown.com/sod/images/waterfall.jpg

Browsed that site more, another view if you needed it Mr. Telin

https://www.fullblown.com/sod/images/dely5.jpg

[Telin]

Challenge Accepted!

I posted it as a bug in this thread.
https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=247408

Looks like I never changed my enchanters logfile on eqmac so we have 180mb of logs.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2hyH6hWe0FbMFFRNXZSckpwUFE/view

Me and another player were raising our faction with denizens of mischief to ally to see if Vinny would finally talk to us about taking over, but they nuked the server when we were warmly.

[Tue Aug 27 09:14:57 2013] Your faction standing with Denizens of Mischief got worse.
[Tue Aug 27 09:14:57 2013] You gain party experience!!

[Tue Aug 27 09:16:44 2013] a door begins to cast a spell.
[Tue Aug 27 09:16:44 2013] You resist the Dragon Roar spell!

[Tue Aug 27 09:17:25 2013] a pristine gate begins to cast a spell.
[Tue Aug 27 09:17:26 2013] Your skin returns to normal.
[Tue Aug 27 09:17:26 2013] Your mind returns to normal.
[Tue Aug 27 09:17:26 2013] Your grace fades.
[Tue Aug 27 09:17:26 2013] The avian spirit departs.
[Tue Aug 27 09:17:26 2013] You feel very dispelled.
[Tue Aug 27 09:17:49 2013] Vinny V. D`vicci says 'Nice work kid. Now I'm feelin lucky. So's ya say ya wanna learn about cards right? Lemme tell ya. Them cards are nice but lets have some REAL fun. Yer resourceful, I like that. What say we take over this joint fer ourselves? Ol' Bristle's gettin soft, ya know? Wadda ya say? Man or mouse?'
[Tue Aug 27 09:17:49 2013] Your faction standing with Denizens of Mischief got better.
[Tue Aug 27 09:17:49 2013] You gain party experience!!
[Tue Aug 27 09:17:53 2013] Herv saved.
[Tue Aug 27 09:17:54 2013] You say, 'man'
[Tue Aug 27 09:17:55 2013] Vinny V. D`vicci says 'Foist ya gotta help my brudda Bob. Getcherself one of em books `es talkin about. Den.. ya`s gotta find me dem woids of wealth. Well? Watcha standin here gawkin at me for? Get movin!'

I can add this, and those logs will be useful.

[Telin]

Good luck... that's content stuff not particle effects.

My content PoMischief bug report (https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=261746&highlight=Plane+mischief) got no traction for a year :/.

Now that Chardok revamp is wrapping up, I will have time to look into this soon.

[Check12345]

I'm the man.

You're the man!

[TheOutdoorNerd]

As a long time player on live, it took me a while to drink the P99 kool-aid. But I'm a believer now. The staff are fantastic and so is the community. Way better than anything live ever had.

Thanks for your hard work, Telin!

[evilkorn]

Browsed that site more, another view if you needed it Mr. Telin

https://www.fullblown.com/sod/images/dely5.jpg

Draw distance on waterfalls (outside thurg mainly) is also very short.

[Llandris]

Thread unlocked

[Rygar]

Mr. Telin,

I've discovered some additional areas missing particle effects on P99, I've found some images for you to work with:

Ry`Gor Fort in Eastern Wastes: The big bonfire should have smoke rising up from it
https://web.archive.org/web/20011223010920/http://www.trysor.com:80/afterlife/index2.cfm?pictureid=218
https://web.archive.org/web/20050301052631/http://www.angelfire.com:80/nj3/fobk/img/EQ000215.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20030310055203/http://www.skidmore.edu:80/~mhasselb/AM/gallery/RygorrRaid.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20031014221444fw_/http://www.lolf.de:80/img/dwarf_02.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20030121061416fw_/http://lolf.de:80/img_misc/got_warming_up_me_toes_in_velious.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20030201050950fw_/http://lolf.de:80/img/dwarf_07.jpg

This is the only image I could find, but apparently Dragon Necropolis has a waterfall, I believe it is over the lair of that shade dragon. This image was taken right near the zone in, one of the first dragon bones is in the foreground:
https://web.archive.org/web/20021121155446/http://valorguard.members.easyspace.com:80/Photos/Durok/DragonsNecropolis.jpg

There's a few other areas I need to check into such as Fear exit portal and FV statue, Carts in Kaladim or Droga, I think some skulls with eyebeams in Najena... haven't gotten around to it yet on P99. I know there are a lot of steam vents in the lava pools in VP but I'll never get in there to verify they exist.

On a separate note, can you please provide an explanation of why these environmental effects can't be viewed at any type of far distance? Some of them are just gorgeous, here are various images of the Thurg waterfall, there is even a 2nd waterfall in the background but I can't even tell if it is enabled on P99 because I need to be like 10ft away from the Thurg fall to see it, the area behind the first fall is unreachable so there's no chance of me viewing the 2nd fall currently:
https://web.archive.org/web/20020824074154/http://valorguard.members.easyspace.com:80/Photos/Durok/ThurgadinWaterfall.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20020325232043fw_/http://eqwolf.com:80/Images/waterfall.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20020711151943/http://eqlunareclipse.com:80/images/jooneau/thurgadin_falls.JPG
https://web.archive.org/web/20010906075531/http://www.trysor.com:80/afterlife/index2.cfm?pictureid=146

[Telin]

Mr. Telin,

I've discovered some additional areas missing particle effects on P99, I've found some images for you to work with:

Ry`Gor Fort in Eastern Wastes: The big bonfire should have smoke rising up from it
https://web.archive.org/web/20011223010920/http://www.trysor.com:80/afterlife/index2.cfm?pictureid=218
https://web.archive.org/web/20050301052631/http://www.angelfire.com:80/nj3/fobk/img/EQ000215.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20030310055203/http://www.skidmore.edu:80/~mhasselb/AM/gallery/RygorrRaid.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20031014221444fw_/http://www.lolf.de:80/img/dwarf_02.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20030121061416fw_/http://lolf.de:80/img_misc/got_warming_up_me_toes_in_velious.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20030201050950fw_/http://lolf.de:80/img/dwarf_07.jpg

This is the only image I could find, but apparently Dragon Necropolis has a waterfall, I believe it is over the lair of that shade dragon. This image was taken right near the zone in, one of the first dragon bones is in the foreground:
https://web.archive.org/web/20021121155446/http://valorguard.members.easyspace.com:80/Photos/Durok/DragonsNecropolis.jpg

There's a few other areas I need to check into such as Fear exit portal and FV statue, Carts in Kaladim or Droga, I think some skulls with eyebeams in Najena... haven't gotten around to it yet on P99. I know there are a lot of steam vents in the lava pools in VP but I'll never get in there to verify they exist.

On a separate note, can you please provide an explanation of why these environmental effects can't be viewed at any type of far distance? Some of them are just gorgeous, here are various images of the Thurg waterfall, there is even a 2nd waterfall in the background but I can't even tell if it is enabled on P99 because I need to be like 10ft away from the Thurg fall to see it, the area behind the first fall is unreachable so there's no chance of me viewing the 2nd fall currently:
https://web.archive.org/web/20020824074154/http://valorguard.members.easyspace.com:80/Photos/Durok/ThurgadinWaterfall.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20020325232043fw_/http://eqwolf.com:80/Images/waterfall.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20020711151943/http://eqlunareclipse.com:80/images/jooneau/thurgadin_falls.JPG
https://web.archive.org/web/20010906075531/http://www.trysor.com:80/afterlife/index2.cfm?pictureid=146

I've known about the Ry`Gor fort particle effect, but the necropolis waterfall is a new one.

The client has a built in clip plane for environmental particles that I do not have a way of fixing atm. So that is why you have to get close to see them.

[Rygar]

I wonder if there is a way to circumvent this... could you, for example, make the waterfall an npc that is untargetable, and their body model are the particle effects? It would just be a very long animation that loops, such as they are dancing.

[aaezil]

velious isnt classic eq, sorry you failed

[turboviper]

How cool! I'm very excited, I'll contribute if I remember any!

[merkmerk73]

As a long time player on live, it took me a while to drink the P99 kool-aid. But I'm a believer now. The staff are fantastic and so is the community. Way better than anything live ever had.

Thanks for your hard work, Telin!


Hmm IDK about that

I camped fear for a month checking every day for the broken golem spawn - only for it to be discovered that they had done something with the factions and the broken golem was getting gibbed by the other mobs in fear when it spawned.

I petitioned weekly and asked for the GMs to just spawn the golem so I could kill it with a raid group

GM just handed me the oil and said "month is long enough" and ported me to lavastorm to turn in to get my Wizard epic

[Telin]

Vulak'Aerr's ruby will have proper sparkles again!

https://i.imgur.com/VPEYCoB.jpg

[Furinex]

Nice work Telin

[Pootle]

Constantly impressed with the detail and attention this server is given. Thanks for this!!!