R0M? GLQuake & dark textures

[cjolley]

r0m,
Why are the textures so dark in GLQuake?
I made it playable with IDGama but it looks pretty bad.
I can't see you all spending too much time on such an old game, but I am curious.
thanks,
chuck



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[Ant]

ROM don't live here anymore it seems, he never answers these days

[Wombat]

Try just turning up the brightness in Powerdesk. It should help.

-Wombat

[Maggi]

Hi Chuck,

goto the console and fiddle with 'gl_gamma' and/or 'gl_ext_gamma' ... at least that works in Q2.

For a quick check, just type in the above commands without a value and hit enter, than you should get a read out of the actual settings ...

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[cjolley]

Hi Guys,
I think the problem is that GLQuake was written exclusively for the VooDoo 1 texture engine and it's GL -> Glide wrapper.
I was just wondering what specificly made it so dark on most other cards.

R0M probably got tired of having rocks thrown at him in here. He was maintaining a list of present & future game fixes here.

Maggi, GLQuake does not support those commands. I don't think the author had anything very sophisticated in mind when he wrote it.

chuck



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[m]

As wombat pointed out the best solution is to turn the RGB ( all the way! ) in Powerdesk up when playing quakeworld ( this however only works in 95/09 not in NT4 ). An annyoing solution but it is the only one that gives a decent result without making the game look "****ed up" remember you have to turn it back when you are finished.
You can try turning the monitor brightness up to, but thats ( on most monitors ) and extremly slow in compare to the powerdesk.

we can only hope that matrox will make the "turboGL" a "tad" brighter in all the ID games.