ShowDynamicLights is set incorrectly out of the box

Discussion in 'Bug Reports' started by Shillingworth, Aug 22, 2022.

  1. Shillingworth Augur

    In eqclient.ini for a very long time this bug has existed and causes light sources carried by other players to not show correctly. This contributes to the game looking way darker than it should, even with Nightvision, Ultravision, and Faerune.

    Out of the box that line in the ini reads: ShowDynamicLights=1
    To correct it, one must replaced the 1 with TRUE so that it reads: ShowDynamicLights=TRUE

    I propose the fix of doing an check, if the value is 1, automatically replace it with TRUE, if it's 0 automatically replace it with FALSE. Or to simply treat 1 as TRUE and 0 as FALSE.

    IIR you could at one time use either the numeric value of 1/0 or TRUE/FALSE but at some point long ago that broke in an update. I assume this also affects other settings in the ini files that seem to do nothing at first glance.
    Barton likes this.