A Reasonable Request for Custom Content: Proper Armor Tinting

[Rygar]

It was in development during Velious and launched on March 19th, 2002. Basically this allows certain parts of armor to be blocked out when tinting.

12/04/2001 (Day of Luclin launch):

We will be polishing up issues regarding tinted items in game. In other words, things that shouldn't tint with a tinted item (e.g. your skin) won't tint when the feature is complete.

03/19/2002:

Added /dopropertinting command. This command allows you to turn on and off the "DoProperTinting" option in the eqclient.ini file. Activating this command should correct most tinting issues (such as armor tint also tinting the character's skin). But if it causes issues you can toggle it off by using /dopropertinting off.

This command should already be in the Titanium Client, so could just be enabled (may need to add some files in for placeholders for the tinting masks... may even be old tint layers from Titanium client). Furthermore, my guess is P99 devs would not need to even add the actual custom tint filters, there is a texture crew that lives for this kind of stuff.

This would not affect encounters in any way, only fashion. Furthermore, it can be left off of Refresh server and only enabled on Blue/Red 99. If people don't like it the /dopropertinting off will show them the classic look.

I made my own KO of a the special ornamentation on the Druid Velious quested armors for comparison (in hindsight I probably would have added the overall tint to the black portions, but didn't feel like redoing it). It really, really brings out the beauty of the armor. The full tint really kills the ornamentation and just looks sloppy. There are a lot more classes where parts of their skin are tinted and it looks horrible.

What say you???

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