Hello, it's my first ever thread in the Players forum section, so be nice. On the scale from 1-15, what brightness setting do you use? If you don't know how to check, you go to the Main Menu>Options>Display Settings and then go down to brightness.
I use the highest setting (15) usually, but I want to know what other people use so when making/adjusting textures I can appeal to the greatest number of people.
What Brightness Setting Do You Use In The Game?
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What Brightness Setting Do You Use In The Game?
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I sometimes set the brightness up one or two notches above the default, if I remember to set it on a new install. I have a new 22" LCD monitor that is very bright and I am just using the default setting in BZ for that.
One thing I have noticed... You need more brightness if you are going to play with lighting turned on. On my old nVidia card, I couldn't have lighting on at all without killing my frame rate; with lighting off, the images in BZ are actually pretty bright. But on my current machines, that will support lighting (I am running "best" lighting on both) I really need more brightness. The lighting feature makes a lot of use of shading to create the lighting effects and this makes the image darker.
Also, sometimes when I am not playing well my teammates tell me I am not very bright, so I am thinking maybe I should raise my brightness level a bit.
One thing I have noticed... You need more brightness if you are going to play with lighting turned on. On my old nVidia card, I couldn't have lighting on at all without killing my frame rate; with lighting off, the images in BZ are actually pretty bright. But on my current machines, that will support lighting (I am running "best" lighting on both) I really need more brightness. The lighting feature makes a lot of use of shading to create the lighting effects and this makes the image darker.
Also, sometimes when I am not playing well my teammates tell me I am not very bright, so I am thinking maybe I should raise my brightness level a bit.
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Same as Sky King for me, pretty much. When I first started playing BZ, my machine couldn't handle lighting without dropping to single-digit frame rates. After I got a better machine, I first started without lighting and everything looked the same. Then I started activating lighting and discovered that I had to turn brightness up quite a bit to get the same brilliance.
As to answering the actual question for this thread - I actually have "brightness" turned off. Instead, I've just simply set my OpenGL gamma to 2.0 on the video card itself, which gives me the correct lighting level. I think that's setting 10 or 11 in the game...
As to answering the actual question for this thread - I actually have "brightness" turned off. Instead, I've just simply set my OpenGL gamma to 2.0 on the video card itself, which gives me the correct lighting level. I think that's setting 10 or 11 in the game...
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