Gamma in Quake & Quake2

[Shoyu]

idGamma doesn't work for me somehow, so I'm having to brighten up my screen using Matrox Monitor Colour Control everytime before I enter a game.

Is there a way I could make a shortcut to do that? Or is there a suggestions booth for the next PD release?

[Kruzin]

IDgamma.
Eww.
There is an easier, less intrusive way to do it.
Just add these lines to your autoexec.cfg for the game, and adjust their values as needed:

set intensity "1.0"
set vid_gamma "0.9"
set gl_modulate "3.5"
set gl_saturate "0"

(these are Q2 commands...I don't know the equivalent commands for Q1)

[This message has been edited by Kruzin (edited 04 March 2000).]

[cjolley]

Shoyu,
Idgamma does work. I use it.
You have to delete all your "glquake" folders.
For example /games/quake1/id1/glquake.
This makes glquake rebuild the textures.
chuck

[cjolley]

Kruzin,
GLQuake 1 does not have equivalent settings.
That's why I use idgamma.
chuck

[Shoyu]

What idGamma values do you use?
It still somehow does not work for me.

The values Kruzin suggested are a bit dark too. (If there was any difference :P) I'll keep trying. They do work for ActionQuake2 right?

[cjolley]

Assuming this was my last input to the program, here goes:

Idgamma Version 1.3b
Game = 1 (Quake 1)
Intensity = 4
Gamma = .6
Allowsat = 1 (Allow No Saturation)
fullbright = Y (Leave Fullbrights Alone)

chuck