Light are all 'blown out'

[Diego]

Hi there,

This has been bugging me for a while as is something I don't see in your screenshots. The lights are very bright, to the point where I lose details over the lit areas. Example:

I tried messing with the gamma/brightness sliders but even at the lowest values it doesn't work. Any ideas?

Edited May 13, 2010 by Diego

[jdude]

Looks like you messed up your bloom. Try turning your bloom off or setting it to 1 and see if that makes a difference.

[Diego]

I totally forgot about this bloom thing (doh)

 

I turned it on in the previous version when this option was present in the menu, I think. So, to turn it back off it's in the DoomConfig.cfg and change the line to seta r_bloom "0"? Is there anything else? Because it doesn't seem to be making any difference.

[Bikerdude]

assume we are referring to interaction shader..? on some maps you need to have it on - in the "no honor among thieves" you wont see the grass in the forest area.

Edited May 13, 2010 by Bikerdude

[Diego]

assume we are referring to interaction shader..? on some maps you need to have it on - in the "no honor among thieves" you wont see the grass in the forest area.

 

Bloom and high quality interaction shader are the same thing? I have the latter on and ambient shader (if I remember correctly) in 'standard'.

 

(I don't think they are the same, though)

Edited May 13, 2010 by Diego

[Bikerdude]

(I don't think they are the same, though)

I'm not sure, but I think you might be right...

[Fidcal]

Diego: Just in case you are only changing Doomconfig.cfg in the darkmod folder, check out http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=DoomConfig.cfg

[New Horizon]

Bloom and the interaction shader are not the same. Very different things.

[Diego]

Diego: Just in case you are only changing Doomconfig.cfg in the darkmod folder, check out http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=DoomConfig.cfg

 

Now it's working! Thanks

[LEGION]

What values should be edited in what way to get a slightly 'lower' bloom-effect? I don´t understand the other bloom-cvars I found in the console... What is Iteration? Which value defines the brightness of the bloom-effect? Or should I decrease all of them? Is it maybe bad for the performance if I use values like '0.895' instead of '1'?

[LEGION]

It seems 'set r_bloom_contrast_mult' and 'r_lightscale' are helping with this so you don´t have to disable the bloom effect. But be cautious with lightscale because it affects the visibility of the player/LightGem. I made myself an individual AutoExec.cfg for every mission with individual LightScale settings. Good thing that the Autoexec is not copied after uninstalling the mission like the Doomconfig! I hope you guys will never change that! Because this way one can sort out differences in the brightness setting of missions. (f.e. NHAT seems much more bright than 'Living Expenses')

[Bikerdude]

Suggestion..

 

http://modetwo.net/d...20entry217620

Edited May 22, 2010 by Bikerdude