Elysium

KilltoyKilltoy Join Date: 2002-03-28 Member: 358Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Light level</div>A had a friend over toady and as he showed me some of his photography images, he adjusted my gamma settings a little.

It was such a small adjustment, I didn't think anything of it.

...until I took a look at my map again. Whoah! That stuff is dark now!

My inclination was to turn my gamma back up, but before I did I went back and looked at some of the shots in here. Wow! Things look a lot nicer in some maps. Narby's map looks much better for one.

Now, unlike me, Narby knows what he is doing. Before I conceed that my head has been shoved up my arse for quite some time, I thought I'd get your opinions. Have my map images seemed overly dark?

Let me know what you really think. You can't beat me up worse than I already am myself, so don't worry. I'd much rather hear the truth than be patronized. Thanks!

Comments

  • shovenshoven Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 29Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    The only pics I recall from the new build of Elysium (atm) are the bridge pics and the loading bay. The bridge was definately too dark, but the loading bay looks great.
  • realityisdeadrealityisdead Employed by Raven Software after making ns_nothing Join Date: 2002-01-26 Member: 94Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    Yeah, they were a bit dark. I had a problem with my gamma and brightness settings -and optomising my level for that setting- a while back (which is now fixed and out of the way). I remember that you were seeing things practically the same as I was... it's not supposed to be that way. I imagine that your gamma is perfect now that he adjusted it. Load up "th[whatever]" and see if it doesn't look a little better now. I think you'll notice the difference. <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->

    The worst that is going to happen is you'll have to increase your radfile intensity values, or point brightness.



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  • pielemuispielemuis Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 72Members, NS1 Playtester
    nope they looked fine. Then again, maybe my gamma is turned up a bit high, I wouldn't chaneg a thing, maybe put a small sample bsp up, so people can see for themself how it looks ingame (screenshtos don't really show how the map looks (env_gamma etc.) )
  • nrbynrby Join Date: 2002-03-05 Member: 270Members
    My images are gamma corrected in PSP to 1.2 and the gamma setting in the game is 1.8. The env_gamma entity will basically make the difference between light and dark appear greater so the they appear more contrasted.
    Always make the map a little darker than you would, and gradually increase the env_gamma until it starts to look ``brighter'' and more varied.
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