Pixel Shader in Tyria?

For those who don't know, Nightfall introduced a new graphics feature into the game called the Pixel Shader. You can adjust the shader setting's in Options > Graphics > Shader Quality.

Well, the thing was, the new shader capabilities was only for areas in Elona. However, I was just exploring Dragon's Gullet today and realized that my characters had the Pixel Shader effect on them. I'll get a screeny and post it here once I'm done exploring it all.

Was this from today's update? I thought it was just getting ready for the HA weekend, but maybe they slid something else in there. I'm going to go to other locations and see if the shader effect was added elsewhere too.

Mine looks the same

Factions already used Shaders, just not with the high amount Nightfall does. Having updated Tyria doesn't sound unrealistic for they are overworking the sound system right now.

Here are two images that I took of it. I gotta admit... it made for some sweet pictures...

http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/9...shader1yo3.jpg
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/349...shader2ar1.jpg

Hmmmm, I dont know. If you take a look at my avatar, is it pixel-shaded too? It's from a screenie I took nearly 2 years ago just outside Sardelic.

That doesn't look like pixel shaders to me. Pixel shaders basically trick you into seeing relief or some sort of shape on a flat surface. A good example would be water ripples in morrowind, or those intricate skin and armor details on unreal tournament 3 characters or any sort of stone wall surface in oblivion.

^- Makes sense to me. Time to explore a bit of Tyria then

Cool it's about time Tyria got to have some fancy lighting and other nice effect, didn't upgrade my pc for nothing. Oh! wait a sec, does this mean minimum system spec for CH1 just got higher? Wonder what will happen to those with slow pc?

Believe it or not, someday the 1st Ascalon mission bugged for me in some way that showed that Nightfall "effects" all the mission, even noted less frames per second. I think I have screenshots. The "bug" happened to me when going to Kamadan and returning too fast to LA then to the mission, with the hard disk reading a lot of background things (completing downloaded things + anti-virus)

A pixel-shader update would be so cool...It would keep me
satisfied until GW2 and EOTN.

I'm gonna look around, as well.

Those aren't shaders man. That's just odd lighting. They rarely use strait black as the ambient color (it usually doesn't look good) but there are some places, like: outside of Saredelic, & In the Charr camp North of the wall, where they DO use it. That doesn't require shaders.. just looks weird.

I must be slow, on a semi-related note I just noticed they added the lip movement to the cutscenes for tyria/cantha as well

You're slow:

Update - Tuesday February 6

* Added lip-syncing to all cinematic sequences in the Prophecies campaign.
* Added lip-syncing to all cinematic sequences in the Factions campaign.

Heh, except they missed a couple, the child in ran misu still doesn't move his lips

I guess the shaders are Nightfall and Factions only (and yes, it's been around for a while now).

I see no difference in Tyria with them.

Do you mean the lighting on the characters going to per pixel? That happened a looong time ago.

The thing is there's not lighting in the game of the same nature, so you don't see the effects on the character usually.

lol yeah i saw that last night! he must be a loud telepath.lol (the reason i only saw it last night was because i havnt done the shing jea quests for a while)

BOOM Headshot.

And yeah, I played and saw no difference.

It's not new.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shader

They added some DX9 extensions to the shader programming.

There's several characters that don't move their lips. The NPCs in the cutscene at Gyala Hatchery come to mind.