Remove or decrease the green light from greensteel?

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Remove or decrease the green light from greensteel?

Post by Gulddrengen » Tue Jun 20, 2017 4:28 pm

It's a small thing but what do people think of removing or at least decreasing the green light from greensteel?

I think it's mostly annoying, overdone and doesn't make sense, the blade looks like normal steel but there's a five meter cone of wierd green light around your character.

Everywhere you go with your weapons drawn just has this same constant lighting, a shame on a server (and in an engine in my opinion) that has pretty cool environment lighting.

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Re: Remove or decrease the green light from greensteel?

Post by Ebonstar » Tue Jun 20, 2017 4:39 pm

its part of the inherent magic of the metal when forged.
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Re: Remove or decrease the green light from greensteel?

Post by Umskiptar » Tue Jun 20, 2017 4:50 pm

Yes, please! Greensteel light is one of the most annoying things ever. It messes with your game lighting too, making the game graphics look very bad.

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Re: Remove or decrease the green light from greensteel?

Post by One Two Three Five » Tue Jun 20, 2017 4:51 pm

Ebonstar wrote:its part of the inherent magic of the metal when forged.
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Re: Remove or decrease the green light from greensteel?

Post by JediMindTrix » Tue Jun 20, 2017 5:00 pm

Umskiptar wrote:Yes, please! Greensteel light is one of the most annoying things ever. It messes with your game lighting too, making the game graphics look very bad.
Agreed.

This is also how I feel when Drow try to ban one of NWN's primary colors in the game's already very limited palette from being selected on clothes.

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Re: Remove or decrease the green light from greensteel?

Post by One Two Three Five » Tue Jun 20, 2017 5:25 pm

I haven't seen it happen lately, don't give people ideas.
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Re: Remove or decrease the green light from greensteel?

Post by Durvayas » Tue Jun 20, 2017 9:51 pm

JediMindTrix wrote:
Umskiptar wrote:Yes, please! Greensteel light is one of the most annoying things ever. It messes with your game lighting too, making the game graphics look very bad.
Agreed.

This is also how I feel when Drow try to ban one of NWN's primary colors in the game's already very limited palette from being selected on clothes.
Talking about the combination of red and black or the wearing of gold on non-nobles?
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Re: Remove or decrease the green light from greensteel?

Post by gilescorey » Tue Jun 20, 2017 9:53 pm

I really don't like the greensteel light. It's ugly as hell and messes with the game lighting - Ultravision for example, will not have its customary purple brightening effect on your screen when coupled with the greensteel weapon lighting effect.

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Re: Remove or decrease the green light from greensteel?

Post by Baron Saturday » Wed Jun 21, 2017 5:48 am

I would also very much like to see the light property removed, though for a mechanical reason: It gives stealthers carrying greensteel a -10 penalty to hide at night, making gs weapons pretty detrimental to them.
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Re: Remove or decrease the green light from greensteel?

Post by SwampFoot » Wed Jun 21, 2017 8:18 am

Another way to go is to add an option to remove enchantments at the basin for a nominal fee. Stealthers and those that really want it gone can make it so.

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Re: Remove or decrease the green light from greensteel?

Post by Stath » Wed Jun 21, 2017 11:23 am

I kind of like the green glow from a thematic sense, but I'd honestly prefer it to have no glow.
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Re: Remove or decrease the green light from greensteel?

Post by CragOrion » Wed Jun 21, 2017 2:57 pm

I like the light...

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Re: Remove or decrease the green light from greensteel?

Post by Rwby » Wed Jun 21, 2017 3:05 pm

Me too!

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Re: Remove or decrease the green light from greensteel?

Post by Ebonstar » Wed Jun 21, 2017 3:16 pm

light is good
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Re: Remove or decrease the green light from greensteel?

Post by MissEvelyn » Fri Jun 23, 2017 11:08 pm

It does seem kinda overkill that a stealther has to be punished for carrying a greensteel weapon.


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Re: Remove or decrease the green light from greensteel?

Post by Seven Sons of Sin » Fri Jun 23, 2017 11:38 pm

Can we toggle it, along with all visual VFX for weapons?
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Re: Remove or decrease the green light from greensteel?

Post by Baron Saturday » Sat Jun 24, 2017 2:18 am

Seven Sons of Sin wrote:Can we toggle it, along with all visual VFX for weapons?
Toggle would be cool.
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Re: Remove or decrease the green light from greensteel?

Post by Astral » Sat Jun 24, 2017 3:14 am

I think I suggested it's removal few times in the box in the past years. Its annoying and it doesn't even make any sense. My character has a light spell on themselves and then when I draw my sword the poisonous dim green light takes dominance (even though its the weaker light source) and my whole screen goes dark green and I cant see s***. That's what I think about the greensteel light. my player experience.
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Re: Remove or decrease the green light from greensteel?

Post by Marr » Sat Jun 24, 2017 1:19 pm

I make use of the green glow all the time and have my gamma setting so that it is only a light green area affect. Now lets be honest here, if you know a weapon has a glow as stealth character they you might want to be more character playing then OOC stat looking at things. After all, this is

A) an RP server with high PVP.
B) Greensteel is effectively starmetal from the source books which as part of the very ore.
C) Arjale can only be found in 1 or 2 places that I know of now so has become rarer than it used to be.

it would be nice to a toggle for the glow but in short if you get a glowing weapon act accordingly from an RP stand point.

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