Blizzard CM Datth explained to us how to get the new fancy shadows working in the Lich King Beta a few days ago:
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config.wtf - SET extShadowQuality “X”
in-game - /console extShadowQuality X
- Valid numbers range from 0 (old shadow system) - 6.
2 and up seems to deal with the distance of the shadows
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This new feature produces really cool looking shadows, including life-like ones from your characters, instead of the grey blob we have now. Dadesign2 filmed a couple of examples of these new graphics, check them out below:








Good for Blizzard… Now update my pre-TBC chars so that it doesn’t look like a 12 pixel is fighting a 20K pixel and that’ll be nice. I may have a slightly slow computer, but it doesn’t mean I don’t want to see at least slightly increased graphics.