Too dark for me... <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I have my gamma just about high enough that I can decern target skulks while jetpacking (some of them really camoflauge if you don't look hard) but my brightness is left at default...
In retrospective maby I should turn my brightness up just a little too, after all, my monitor is a little dim...
max for me, not like it helps <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Mine is set according to that, and thus as "correct" as I'll get it <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I'll admit to using powerstrip to increase my brightness and gamma. Yes, it takes some atmosphere out of the game, but there are enough dark spots where I use my flashlight and without it, I wouldn't be able to play AT ALL. I wouldn't be able to even navigate the map because it's all so dark.
Brightness is for losers...try just going in the dark for awhile, makes the game more scary! <!--emo&::marine::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/marine.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='marine.gif' /><!--endemo-->
obuhNot Quite Smart at NSJoin Date: 2003-03-31Member: 15072Members, Constellation
I play with brightness settings so that I can actually see stuff on my screen lol that's lame. lightgamma 0 is the brightest, higher values make the game darker (don't know the limit). Try putting lightgamma 9999 in userconfig.cfg for added ATMOSPHERE LOL.
Sorry but you can flame me all you want this but it is just the truth!
If you alter anything to do with gamma and brightness so that the game looks less dark then you cannot play this game properly as you are changing the way the game was set out to be played! Sorry but did you ever think thats what your flashlight is for as marine even though it is crap!
Sorry but i always have and always will look down upon ppl and shake my head in disgust because of changing the gamma and brightness settings so you make the game brighter than it should be!
I think the only time i don't look down on it is when someone has 1 of those Ati graphics cards that make the game practically pitch black even areas which are supposed to be bright are darker than they should be then!
<!--QuoteBegin-TheJim+Apr 14 2005, 04:32 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (TheJim @ Apr 14 2005, 04:32 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Sorry but you can flame me all you want this but it is just the truth!
If you alter anything to do with gamma and brightness so that the game looks less dark then you cannot play this game properly as you are changing the way the game was set out to be played! Sorry but did you ever think thats what your flashlight is for as marine even though it is crap!
Sorry but i always have and always will look down upon ppl and shake my head in disgust because of changing the gamma and brightness settings so you make the game brighter than it should be!
I think the only time i don't look down on it is when someone has 1 of those Ati graphics cards that make the game practically pitch black even areas which are supposed to be bright are darker than they should be then! <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Heres the way it is. This game has clanners and clanners want to be able to shoot at things they can see. Many of us have vision problems... is 20/20 vision a prerequisite of being a skilled player? should it be? As long as people will be playing this game compeditively there will be some people who jack up thier gamma to get an advantage over others. Now you can either ask people every game weather they are complying to gamma standards, and then ban anyone who you find out lied (its not like you are ever going to find out, some people NEED high lightgamma and gamma settings JUST TO PLAY). You can lock the values and force people to use third party software to get the same effect. Or you can just suck it up and realize alot of the time most players don't play for the atmosphere, or they would have gotten bored and left long ago since atmosphere only goes so far.
If we ever play in a pug of your creation or we ever meet up in a lan, I am more then happy to lower my gamma and have a little heart attack style fun when the skulks leap up out of the inky blackness. But if you meet me in a pub somewhere, or playing a scrim, chances are my gamma is going to be reasonably high, just because alot of other people are abusing it too, and I would really rather not be on the bottom of the pack just for fear of playing with an optional value.
My gamma is still fairly low compared to some, and my game certainly doesn't look anywhere close to white walls or lightbulb skulks, but it is high enough that in average lighting conditions I can JP by a skulk and see him well enough to put a round of shotgun fire acctually into him.
[edit] what I am saying is that at least if you let everyone jack up thier gamma, no one complains about it to anyone else.
<!--QuoteBegin-TheJim+Apr 14 2005, 04:32 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (TheJim @ Apr 14 2005, 04:32 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> If you alter anything to do with gamma and brightness so that the game looks less dark then you cannot play this game properly as you are changing the way the game was set out to be played! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> I have NS installed on 3 different computers. Each computer uses the same config and settings for NS but because of differences in hardware, it looks different on each computer. So, if everyone's default settings has different results due to differences in the computer, why does it really matter if people change brightness or gamma or stuff like that?
Personally, I have my settings at brightness 10, gamma 3. I also have hotkeys set through nView which allow me to increase or decrease my gamma on the fly. Situations I up it are generally map specific, this only tends to be the odd combat map which I deem to be too dark (i.e. corners where I can't see someone if they are sat there) or I know the other team has cloaking.
I do however have my monitor set up to be quite dark so that I don't go blind when I'm coding or reading for long periods of time. So I could set up my screen to be lighter and get the same effect.
<!--QuoteBegin-princess+Apr 14 2005, 05:00 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (princess @ Apr 14 2005, 05:00 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-TheJim+Apr 14 2005, 04:32 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (TheJim @ Apr 14 2005, 04:32 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> If you alter anything to do with gamma and brightness so that the game looks less dark then you cannot play this game properly as you are changing the way the game was set out to be played! <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> I have NS installed on 3 different computers. Each computer uses the same config and settings for NS but because of differences in hardware, it looks different on each computer. So, if everyone's default settings has different results due to differences in the computer, why does it really matter if people change brightness or gamma or stuff like that? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> because he feels better if he gets to go at all the "scripting gamma exploiters" that obviously dont play this game as its supposed to be played (read: as he is playing it).
<!--QuoteBegin-princess+Apr 14 2005, 10:00 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (princess @ Apr 14 2005, 10:00 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-TheJim+Apr 14 2005, 04:32 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (TheJim @ Apr 14 2005, 04:32 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> If you alter anything to do with gamma and brightness so that the game looks less dark then you cannot play this game properly as you are changing the way the game was set out to be played! <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> I have NS installed on 3 different computers. Each computer uses the same config and settings for NS but because of differences in hardware, it looks different on each computer. So, if everyone's default settings has different results due to differences in the computer, why does it really matter if people change brightness or gamma or stuff like that? <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Please read my post fully and not bits of it! I mentioned the graphics card that is the main cause and said its oki when this is the problem! Oh yeh sorry i forgot to mention the monitor as some are very dim indeed! I don't look down on ppl with these problems but when there are no problems then i starting flaming <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Plz learn to read all and not what you want to read the moan thank you!
yes, gamm and stuff is turned up perhaps its fun for you, bu i dont see it as funny when im killed by skulks just because i were not able to see them
thats not how i like to play the game when theres a skulk and im in combat with it i dont want the fight to be decided by who looses his oppontents out of viw because of brightness
just let everybody play like he wants to, different people have different definitions of what makes the fun in ns
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I don't really need it though for marines--usually it's just aliens, and I don't want to bother turning on the flashlight every time I spawn.
gamma: 0-2
brightness: no idea
lightgamma: 1-5
Not sure...
i guess =\
so no
In retrospective maby I should turn my brightness up just a little too, after all, my monitor is a little dim...
Mine is set according to that, and thus as "correct" as I'll get it <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
it doesnt hurt your eyes as long as you are atleast 2 feet from the computer screen
its bad if you have your face right next to the screen for long periods of time
If you alter anything to do with gamma and brightness so that the game looks less dark then you cannot play this game properly as you are changing the way the game was set out to be played! Sorry but did you ever think thats what your flashlight is for as marine even though it is crap!
Sorry but i always have and always will look down upon ppl and shake my head in disgust because of changing the gamma and brightness settings so you make the game brighter than it should be!
I think the only time i don't look down on it is when someone has 1 of those Ati graphics cards that make the game practically pitch black even areas which are supposed to be bright are darker than they should be then!
If you alter anything to do with gamma and brightness so that the game looks less dark then you cannot play this game properly as you are changing the way the game was set out to be played! Sorry but did you ever think thats what your flashlight is for as marine even though it is crap!
Sorry but i always have and always will look down upon ppl and shake my head in disgust because of changing the gamma and brightness settings so you make the game brighter than it should be!
I think the only time i don't look down on it is when someone has 1 of those Ati graphics cards that make the game practically pitch black even areas which are supposed to be bright are darker than they should be then! <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Heres the way it is. This game has clanners and clanners want to be able to shoot at things they can see. Many of us have vision problems... is 20/20 vision a prerequisite of being a skilled player? should it be? As long as people will be playing this game compeditively there will be some people who jack up thier gamma to get an advantage over others. Now you can either ask people every game weather they are complying to gamma standards, and then ban anyone who you find out lied (its not like you are ever going to find out, some people NEED high lightgamma and gamma settings JUST TO PLAY). You can lock the values and force people to use third party software to get the same effect. Or you can just suck it up and realize alot of the time most players don't play for the atmosphere, or they would have gotten bored and left long ago since atmosphere only goes so far.
If we ever play in a pug of your creation or we ever meet up in a lan, I am more then happy to lower my gamma and have a little heart attack style fun when the skulks leap up out of the inky blackness. But if you meet me in a pub somewhere, or playing a scrim, chances are my gamma is going to be reasonably high, just because alot of other people are abusing it too, and I would really rather not be on the bottom of the pack just for fear of playing with an optional value.
My gamma is still fairly low compared to some, and my game certainly doesn't look anywhere close to white walls or lightbulb skulks, but it is high enough that in average lighting conditions I can JP by a skulk and see him well enough to put a round of shotgun fire acctually into him.
[edit] what I am saying is that at least if you let everyone jack up thier gamma, no one complains about it to anyone else.
I have NS installed on 3 different computers. Each computer uses the same config and settings for NS but because of differences in hardware, it looks different on each computer.
So, if everyone's default settings has different results due to differences in the computer, why does it really matter if people change brightness or gamma or stuff like that?
I do however have my monitor set up to be quite dark so that I don't go blind when I'm coding or reading for long periods of time. So I could set up my screen to be lighter and get the same effect.
I have NS installed on 3 different computers. Each computer uses the same config and settings for NS but because of differences in hardware, it looks different on each computer.
So, if everyone's default settings has different results due to differences in the computer, why does it really matter if people change brightness or gamma or stuff like that? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
because he feels better if he gets to go at all the "scripting gamma exploiters" that obviously dont play this game as its supposed to be played (read: as he is playing it).
I have NS installed on 3 different computers. Each computer uses the same config and settings for NS but because of differences in hardware, it looks different on each computer.
So, if everyone's default settings has different results due to differences in the computer, why does it really matter if people change brightness or gamma or stuff like that? <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Please read my post fully and not bits of it! I mentioned the graphics card that is the main cause and said its oki when this is the problem! Oh yeh sorry i forgot to mention the monitor as some are very dim indeed! I don't look down on ppl with these problems but when there are no problems then i starting flaming <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Plz learn to read all and not what you want to read the moan thank you!
perhaps its fun for you, bu i dont see it as funny when im killed by skulks just because i were not able to see them
thats not how i like to play the game
when theres a skulk and im in combat with it i dont want the fight to be decided by who looses his oppontents out of viw because of brightness
just let everybody play like he wants to, different people have different definitions of what makes the fun in ns