Tip for making maps look brighter without turning up brightness

[richard nixon]

Instead of turning your brightness up and making it look funky I found a way to "force" bloom even if the maps don't have it already. It does hurt your fps though, so don't use this if you don't at least have a midrange system

works in both -dxlevel 81 and directx9 mode.

put it in autoexec.cfg in your "cfg" folder

mat_force_bloom "0"
mat_disable_bloom "0"
mat_bloomscale "4"

you can change mat_bloomscale to anything but if you want it to be bright and not worthless performance hit make it at least 2 or higher. No matter how high you put it, it will not hurt performance. Bloom does but the amount of bloom makes no difference. At least not on my machine.

This makes some maps look brighter and have good looking lights. Especially in shutdown2 where the light peaks through the ceiling. I think it looks great and brightens up ff_well where it isnt so dark and gloomy but it still has a night-time atmosphere. And you don't need to enable HDR.

[Dr.Uudge]

Originally Posted by richard nixon

Instead of turning your brightness up and making it look funky I found a way to "force" bloom even if the maps don't have it already. It does hurt your fps though, so don't use this if you don't at least have a midrange system

works in both -dxlevel 81 and directx9 mode.

put it in autoexec.cfg in your "cfg" folder

mat_force_bloom "0"
mat_disable_bloom "0"
mat_bloomscale "4"

you can change mat_bloomscale to anything but if you want it to be bright and not worthless performance hit make it at least 2 or higher. No matter how high you put it, it will not hurt performance. Bloom does but the amount of bloom makes no difference. At least not on my machine.

This makes some maps look brighter and have good looking lights. Especially in shutdown2 where the light peaks through the ceiling. I think it looks great and brightens up ff_well where it isnt so dark and gloomy but it still has a night-time atmosphere. And you don't need to enable HDR.

LOL arggg. I was getting 8~10 fps this way. Is there a perhaps a way to make the texture brighter or more luminous?

[barronofhellion]

the video settings in the game settings there is a screen that says brightness adjust or something , tune it to your liking

[richard nixon]

Yeah you can turn the brightness up but I think bloom makes it look better than just turning the brightness up

[Chips]

I can only reply for those who have ATI cards. Look for "ATI Tray Tools" either on the Rage3d forums...or just google it. I can adjust my gamma using hotkeys in game on the fly. Gamma adjustments are more subtle than adjusting brightness and has no in game effect whatsoever.