Arena lighting

[Traveler]

Does it always seem a quarter past  or a quarter to gloom.  The lighting within the arena even at high noon appears to be very dark. 

[Jayhawk]

Have you played with your Gamma?

[Blooz]

I know what he's talking about. I wrote it up as a bug a few months ago. I think it's got something to do with the trees; how they're modelled. The "light" from the sun doesn't reflect off them and it makes everything look very shadowy and dark while in a GV.

[Traveler]

Have you played with your Gamma?

No, I really don't think I should have to, I take what AH offers in the form of what I see lighting wise.  I know back in the day when we had night a lot of guys used the gamma adjustment to remove the effect.  I'd prefer not to, but for the last few map and game changes I've noticed that the arena just seems darker.  As I said, even at noon it's still pretty gloomy.

[Jayhawk]

No, I really don't think I should have to, I take what AH offers in the form of what I see lighting wise.  I know back in the day when we had night a lot of guys used the gamma adjustment to remove the effect.  I'd prefer not to, but for the last few map and game changes I've noticed that the arena just seems darker.  As I said, even at noon it's still pretty gloomy.

Well have you checked that your in-game gamma settings are correct?  You are aware you can adjust game within the game?

[Yeager]

If I log on and see stars I log right back out again.

[Jayhawk]

If I log on and see stars I log right back out again.

Well stop hitting your head when you log on!  CAPS aren't that bad!   

[ImADot]

Did any of your settings like detailed terrain or bump mapping get changed?

[Traveler]

Did any of your settings like detailed terrain or bump mapping get changed?

My machine has no problem with everything turned on and I still ge over 75fps even in the furballs or with lots of effects taking place.  It's just something that I"ve noticed over the years the even at full high noon according to arena clock, with little or no cloud cover when everything should be well lit, it's a very gloomy world in the arena.

[Jayhawk]

Maybe take a screenshot, this seems very relative to personal opionion.

[Brooke]

Maybe it depends on whether you have a CRT or LCD monitor.  The two do not have the same color/intensity curves, and it can't be made the same by adjusting a sofware gamma.  Gloominess was much more pronounced back during the first implementation of the new terrain engine.  Then, at least on CRT's, things were very, very dark.  It is better now, but out of curiosity -- Traveler, do you have a CRT or LCD monitor?

[warhed]

No, I really don't think I should have to, I take what AH offers in the form of what I see lighting wise.  I know back in the day when we had night a lot of guys used the gamma adjustment to remove the effect.  I'd prefer not to, but for the last few map and game changes I've noticed that the arena just seems darker.  As I said, even at noon it's still pretty gloomy.

No monitor is going to display exactly like another, gamma is a personal setting for you to set.  How would HTC know if you needed things brighter, or darker?
Depending on if gamma is your issue, if you don't think you should have to set it, then you get what you get.  If adjusting the gamma made things better for you, you would then understand why we have that option.  And why every other game has a gamma setting you can select as well 

[The Fugitive]

My machine has no problem with everything turned on and I still ge over 75fps even in the furballs or with lots of effects taking place.  It's just something that I"ve noticed over the years the even at full high noon according to arena clock, with little or no cloud cover when everything should be well lit, it's a very gloomy world in the arena.

So you haven't adjusted your head positions, nor any of the stick settings including the default button setting, because obviously AH knows how you like it.

EDIT: Re read this after posting and it sounded a bit nasty to me. All I'm saying is that HTC has added a bunch of ways to adjust settings in the game BECAUSE everyone is different, and everyone's computer is different. It's not a bad thing to adjust the settings, use them.

[bj229r]

Not sure if this is the same thing, but anytime the sun is low on the horizon (which seems to be MOST of the time) there's a strange glare/haze on everything at ground level, which no gamma adjustment can seem to correct. Brutally painful on my aging eyes

[DREDIOCK]

Since its obviously not effecting many if anyone else. Your monitor is probably set up incorrectly.

Same thing when we had night and people complained. When we had night everything at worst should have looked like a harvest moon night. If you couldnt see because it was too dark. Then your monitor was set up incorrectly. Alot of people refused to believe that.Or admit it (take your pick) but it was in fact the case.

I have a like for a monitor calibrating utility somewhere around here on the boards from a few years ago.
But all sorts of helpers can be found using google

http://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&channel=s&hl=en&source=hp&q=monitor+calibration&btnG=Google+Search