The Tattered Notebook 5/25 -- Nerding out on Shader 3.0

[Seccia_Ravenloft]

<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.massively.com/media/2010/05/lolshader2.jpg" width="580" height="310" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.massively.com/2010/05/25/the-tattered-notebook-nerding-out-on-shader-3-0/" target="_blank">Click here to read this week's Tattered Notebook entry!</a></p><p style="text-align: left;">This week's Tattered Notebook takes a look at Shader 3.0 in honor of Nerd Day!  Let your inner nerd fly as we take a look at some comparison screenshots between Shader 1.0 and 3.0 in EQII, and how exactly the shaders affect how the game looks overall.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Does Shader 3.0 live up to all the hype, or does it fall in flames?  Or, is it good for some things and not for others?  All of that, and more, is answered inside this week's Tattered Notebook.</p>

[Elendhelie]

<p>It tends to wash out the characters with gray it seems like. It also seems to make clothing randomly darker or lighter. My fae druid wears a green dress, but under 3.0 it looks like a black dress. My dark elf cleric has dark indigo skin, but under 3.0 its purplish... Also my fae has greenish skin, but now it looks like the colour of sand... her hair was green, now its almost neon-turqouise. O.o</p><p>And that gold and white dress in your screenie is gray now. Id love to be able to turn off the shader for characters only... or maybe the clothes. >.></p>