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General => Troubleshooting => Topic started by: fatsheep on August 03, 2007, 10:54:16 pm

Title: Screenshots are too dark
Post by: fatsheep on August 03, 2007, 10:54:16 pm

When I first ran Tremulous, it was pitch black.  So I turned the Brightness up all the way and its fine now.  However, the screenshots I take inside tremulous (I'm using /bind F2 screenshot command) are still pitch black and far too dark to be restored with GIMP.  Any ideas?

Title: Screenshots are too dark
Post by: BULLSEYE@linux.be on August 04, 2007, 11:28:48 am

get Gimp

it has a tool that allows u to brighten ur pics

Title: Screenshots are too dark
Post by: fatsheep on August 04, 2007, 02:41:42 pm

Quote from: "BULLSEYE@linux.be"

get Gimp

it has a tool that allows u to brighten ur pics

Quote from: "fatsheep"

When I first ran Tremulous, it was pitch black. So I turned the Brightness up all the way and its fine now. However, the screenshots I take inside tremulous (I'm using /bind F2 screenshot command) are still pitch black and far too dark to be restored with GIMP. Any ideas?

I have gimp but these pictures are very very very dark and even after I have turned up the brightness, their quality is terrible.  Surely there is a way to get Tremulous to take screenshots with the right brightness?

Title: Screenshots are too dark
Post by: Thorn on August 04, 2007, 02:50:56 pm

Sure your monitor isn't dying?

Title: Screenshots are too dark
Post by: fatsheep on August 04, 2007, 02:56:01 pm

Quote from: "Thorn"

Sure your monitor isn't dying?

Yes.  If my monitor was dying then Tremulous would be dark, my desktop would be dark, everything would be dark - not just the Tremulous screenshots.  This is not a monitor problem, this is a Tremulous problem.

Title: Screenshots are too dark
Post by: BULLSEYE@linux.be on August 04, 2007, 02:59:48 pm

i have the same problem

and the only way for me to fix it is whit Gimp

yea yea it makes ur pics ugly but atleast ppl can see it

Title: Screenshots are too dark
Post by: n00b pl0x on August 04, 2007, 08:15:14 pm

/bind key screenshotjpeg should make your screenies at the same brightness as when youre playing

ive never used /screenshot because tga's are bleh

Title: Screenshots are too dark
Post by: fatsheep on August 04, 2007, 09:41:24 pm

Quote from: "n00b pl0x"

/bind key screenshotjpeg should make your screenies at the same brightness as when youre playing

ive never used /screenshot because tga's are bleh

Screenshot below is  taken with /bind F2 screenshotjpeg.  That is NOT how it looks on my screen...

(http://img479.imageshack.us/img479/3048/shot0008yj3.jpg)

Title: Screenshots are too dark
Post by: Thorn on August 04, 2007, 10:13:35 pm

it is not dark, what are you talking about?

Title: Screenshots are too dark
Post by: fatsheep on August 04, 2007, 10:33:18 pm

Quote from: "Thorn"

it is not dark, what are you talking about?

That is quite dark and in darker areas (such as in the buildings) it gets even darker.  The screenshot above is of the lightest part of that map (the outdoors).

Title: Screenshots are too dark
Post by: Thorn on August 04, 2007, 10:35:50 pm

Yes, it is as light as it should be... I don't get your problem with the brightness.... :o

Edit: if i remember correctly, TJW's client will always make sure screenshotjpeg is at gamma 1.0

Title: Screenshots are too dark
Post by: HamStar on August 04, 2007, 11:09:06 pm

Set your Gamma at 1.5 please, I'd prefer not looking at that cave :P

Title: Screenshots are too dark
Post by: fatsheep on August 05, 2007, 02:17:53 am

Quote from: "HamStar"

Set your Gamma at 1.5 please, I'd prefer not looking at that cave :P

I don't see Gamma in the options...  Are you talking about Brightness?  I have Brightness turned all the way up already.

Title: Screenshots are too dark
Post by: Overdose on August 05, 2007, 02:21:14 am

I think the command is /r_gamma

Title: Screenshots are too dark
Post by: fatsheep on August 05, 2007, 03:02:10 am

Quote from: "YourMama"

I think the command is /r_gamma

That command doesn't seem to have any effect on the brightness of the screenshots, I tried turning the gamma to 1.5 as suggested and I also tried going to the extremes.  Nothing effected the screenshots...   :(