Texmod Request: Make Effects Transparent (doesn't have to be perfect)

lorazcyk

lorazcyk

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Join Date: Jul 2007

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I get migraines and sometimes go into a instantly-tired trance mode when there are too many animations on the screen, or even just the "wrong" animation will trigger me. When that happens I have to quit GW, and it happens REALLY often.

(Please don't tell me to take medicine)

So if someone could change skill and attack effects to transparent, including the "auras" around you from enchantments and such, I'd would make me really happy!

I looked on the Wiki to see if someone had already created this mod; doesn't seem like it. I use the "No red flash" (when attacking) and that alone helps ALOT. So even if you don't get all the effects, it's okay, just try to get lots, keeping in the skills most used nowadays.

I'm more than willing to pay for this service.

Moonstalker

Moonstalker

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I don't believe this is the right place for this.

lorazcyk

lorazcyk

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Yes, I realized that after I posted, and I went to Edit->Advanced, but didn't see an option to delete the post. So what's done is done.

sykoone

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Dec 2005

Mystical Chaos

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The only problem with this is the sheer amount of animations to change. The conversion to full transparency is no problem, but having to apply that to several hundred skills would be a time consuming task.

Chrisworld

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Doing them one by one would be a nightmare, It's things like this where GW needs a particle effect slider with the rest of the graphical options.

Yaksha

Academy Page

Join Date: Jul 2010

N/R

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I'm more than willing to pay for this service.
This would defintely not be allowed. That is, someone making mods for GW and being paid for it.

But if someone made something like this for free I don't imagine the staff would jump too much about it.

I'd enjoy something like this too. Some of the effects are fine, but some of them are really annoying. There's a few sound effects that tend to give me a headache after long playing sessions too. I've fixed that by turning off the animation sounds, but that's not really ideal...

lorazcyk

lorazcyk

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Don't understand the reasoning behind it, but oh well. Ugggh... It's not like I'm asking for someone to code a 3rd party program from scratch. >:|

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Doing them one by one would be a nightmare, It's things like this where GW needs a particle effect slider with the rest of the graphical options.
Yeah... But there's some animations that are shared between more than 1 skill, for example, Protection prayers animations, right? I only play PvE ATM (Don't want to play PvP when there's a chance I'd have to quit on the team because of headaches), so if we took the most used PvE skills (for the sake of it, only do "Meta skills" at Pvxwiki, since those skills will bee seen more often than not; exclude farming, which I don't do much of; exclude paragons, rits, sins, dervs)... so in the end, it really wouldn't be hundreds.
Even if there are still a couple of animations showing at once, atleast there won't as many overlapping each other on the screen, triggering a lot less migraines.

And yeah, a particle slider would be awesome... maybe GW2.

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There's a few sound effects that tend to give me a headache after long playing sessions too. I've fixed that by turning off the animation sounds, but that's not really ideal...
If animations only bothered me after long playing sessions.. wow, that'd be a lot better. But it can happen as early as 10-15 minutes of playing *shrug*
So I try to whack stuff with my eyes closed, or looking down at my lap, or to the wall to my right. Not good. x-D!!


The sounds bother me too. I put off playing EotN for a long time, because the orchestra music made me reaaaalllllyyy tired and cranky.
Then I found out I could turn off the music... Wheee!
Nowadays I only turn on the music when I'm in Shiverpeaks towns, because the songs there are really pretty :-)

Try turning off the music instead of turning off the sound effects. Turn off background noise too. Put effect sounds at 1/3. That worked for me