Dark Screenshots

(Stektr33) #1

Hi, I’m just wondering what cvar would cause a screenshot to come out dark, or if even cvar affects that. I have issues with this. I haven’t really tinkered with it much; I’m just hoping for a quick answer, while I’m taking a break at work :eek2:

([rD]MrPink) #2

Well, you could turn up your brightness for a start :stuck_out_tongue: You could also use some image editor like paint shop pro or photoshop to make it brighter. Oh, and how are you doing BTW, I haven’t seen you in the game for a while. (Formerly known as [rD]HuttenKase)

(damocles) #3

Alas, they all come out dark. It’s got something to do with 3D accelerator cards, although I’m not entirely sure why.

Your best bet is image editors. Photoshop (if you have it), paint shop pro for cheap and gimp for super cheap.

(Ifurita) #4

Here are a couple of screenshots I’ve taken at various cvar values

(ziege) #5

Cool, now there’s no excuse for people posting 10 totally black squares and saying ‘do u like my map?’ :slight_smile:

(Stektr33) #6

Hey MrPink, I’m doin’ just great…didn’t know you were in these forums. I’m playing on CSB (Chocolate Salty Ballz) a lot. I joined Ballz with Stekone. At the time I stopped playing on rd’s server, it was spiking a lot for me, not sure why…anywhoo, Ifurita, thanks for those values, I’ll give him them a shot. I might make a bind for taking screenshots, where it hikes up the cvars, takes the screenie, and then takes them back to the old values.

L8s

(Ifurita) #7

it will take a vid_restart after each change before your new settings will take effect

(Stektr33) #8

I don’t think r_gamma and r_intensity requires a vid_restart…i know the overbrightbits cvars do, though.

(Matt) #9

Actually the best way I’ve found to take screens is to take them with default settings and then change the brightness/contrast values in Photoshop.

Usually mine require brightness + 30 and contrast +30 or so.