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Lightning and Journal UI

WardWard Member Posts: 1,305
edited July 2012 in Archive (Feature Requests)
Looking at epic screenshots from 1997 Baldur's Gate, I remembered there was a way to enable lightning in Baldur's Gate. Is this true? I suggest this be made a feature in BG:EE because it is fantastic.

http://www.planetbaldursgate.com/images/image.asp?/bg/media/screenshots/older/bgate34.jpg

The old journal UI looks good too. I like it better even.

http://www.planetbaldursgate.com/images/image.asp?/bg/media/screenshots/older/bgate18.jpg

Comments

  • AranneasAranneas Member Posts: 282
    Ambient weather effects do exist in BG, yes. Cosmetic lighting would sometimes strike during storms.
  • GalactygonGalactygon Member, Developer Posts: 412
    The lightning does look better, and it looks like the animation is randomly generated by the engine. With varying resolutions I feel this is a better solution than playing the same truncated .bam each time.

    -Galactygon
  • TanthalasTanthalas Member Posts: 6,738
    The lightning does look better, but I disagree about the journal though.

    Since BGEE is based on the BG2/ToB engine, the BG2 journal is the base that we can expect, and that is certainly better than the BG1 journal and the one we can see in that screenshot, since it had more functions.
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