I noticed recently that toribash 3.2 has been released and i immediately downloaded it, however, i dont understand most of its features. First of all, in options, what do Ambient Occlusion and Transparency do? they dont seem to do anything for me. Also, on multiplayer i noticed that servers now have a new category, buddies, i can guess what that means but how do i become "buddies" with someone? Thanks in advance!


-Samdaddy10

I dont know what you mean with Ambient Occlusion and Transparency, but that's probably about Shaders or Joints. About the "buddies", I think there's a readme file included, but, you may add buddies with /addbudy name or /removebuddy name . You can use /buddylist to see your Buddy List.

Thanks Drakhir, i hope someone knows about ambient occlusion and transparency though.

Transparency is for WorldBuilder, which affects the gameplay too, in the objects.

And I believe (I might be wrong here) that Transparency allows you to view transparent textures as transparent - mind you, this is only what I've heard, and I haven't tested this myself.

Transparency is whether or not you can see transparent textures.

And ambient occlusion?

Ambient occlusion is the lighting effect if the world itself emits light (instead of spotlights or sun lamps). This affects the placement of shadows on the models.

It's like an approximation of realworld lighting effects used by povray, only in realtime using shaders.

if you look at the edges of the joints closely with ambient occlusion, you can see some shadows at the places where the joints intersect. it has been there in the shader engine all this while, but we now get to turn it off to attempt to increase compatibility with some cards.

Sorry that I am off topic, but I have a problem and dont want to start new topic. I install toribash 3.1,because I am having troubles with 3.2 version with shaders, everything is normal, but when I quit from the game and later want to play again it isnt loading normal, and when its loading its only white screen , and at the top says "Toribash 3.22" and "Fps" , can I stop it from automatical updating? Please help me.

P.S. : On 3.1 version I have no problems, shaders are on and the fps can be even 60+.