Patch Notes: Vanilla Enhanced
Texture Overhaul
- Vanilla Enhanced now ships with the game, and it is the default look. It is carademono's remaster of Daggerfall's own textures: the ground, the trees and rocks, the city walls and the dungeons. There is nothing to download.
- Prefer Daggerfall's own textures? Pick Classic on the Texture Overhaul card. Your choice is remembered, and Classic switches your texture mods off without removing them.
- While Vanilla Enhanced is worn, the card offers its two add-ons as switches: Masked Roads (by carademono and Kokey) and Snowless Swamps and Jungles. The card remembers your add-ons when you switch back to Classic.
- The new textures are decoded in the background, so loading them doesn't stutter the game.
Texture mods
- Texture mods now load in Daggerfall Unity's order. A mod loads after the mods it is built on. Where two mods carry the same texture, the one loaded later is drawn.
- Each texture mod can be switched off and on without removing it, on the Replacement packs card at the foot of Features. The built-in mods are listed there too.
- Switching texture mods mid-game now applies to everything drawn after the switch. Before, a switch could leave a mix of classic and new textures until the page was reloaded. What is already on screen keeps its look until its area loads again.
- The Texture Overhaul card on the main menu now sees the texture mods you attached. Before, it could show "Classic" while your mods were on.
- A texture mod that can't be read is now listed on the Replacement packs card with the reason and a Remove button.
- With a loose texture pack attached, the card explains why Classic can't be picked, and how to remove the pack.
- If you attach your own copy of Vanilla Enhanced (for example a newer version from Nexus Mods), it is used instead of the built-in one.
- Ground textures now appear on the terrain, as in Daggerfall Unity, when they come from a loose texture pack or from a mod that ships the ground tile by tile.
What's Changed
- VE1-VE4 + AUDIT VE: Vanilla Enhanced, shipped and on by default - Port-Doctrine's one exception, the texture-mod door given DFU's load order and terrain import, the Texture Overhaul card's first pack by @Lattymoy in #621
Full Changelog: app-v0.1.6444...app-v0.1.6453