Posted: 3/2/2007 4:56 PM
(Edited: 10/19/2023 4:29 PM)
moozooh
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Here are two screenshots, guess what is common among them. The answer is: they're dark. And so are the runs (unsurprisingly). If the darkness is caused by glN64, then my opinion is that it sucks.
Posted: 3/2/2007 5:02 PM
DeHackEd
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They're not. The one on the left was rendered by Glide64. Edit: Have you watched the whole AVI yet? It's possible I've just selected two dark shots.
Posted: 3/2/2007 5:38 PM
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Ok, I admit I haven't watched the Gex movie at the moment of starting the topic, but the following points still remain: 1) MK4 is much darker than it should be; 2) the screenshots are also dark; 3) the dark levels are still dark. I know it's the game's fault, but my opinion is that brightness should be adjusted even in this case (obviously, only if it doesn't hurt the brighter levels too much). I don't consider re-encoding necessary in these particular cases but still want a bit more attention put into it, because several scenes in the aforementioned MK4 run are almost unintelligible, and they shouldn't be like that.
Posted: 3/7/2007 9:19 PM
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besides, no talking about dark until you play doom 3
Posted: 3/7/2007 9:29 PM
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bkDJ wrote:
besides, no talking about dark until you play doom 3
I played it; it sucked. No second opinions about it.
Posted: 3/12/2007 5:34 AM
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moozooh, are you sure it's not Windows XP causing the darkness? From experience, the screen under WinXP is naturally darker than in Win98, even at the monitor's highest brightness and contrast settings. In WinXP, you can increase the brightness by right-clicking on the desktop and selecting Graphic Options -> Graphic Properties... -> Color, and increase Gamma/Brightness/Contrast. I had to do this a few times because underwater levels are so hard to TAS when dark.
Posted: 3/12/2007 5:46 AM
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FractalFusion wrote:
moozooh, are you sure it's not Windows XP causing the darkness?
I am. My monitor isn't the brightest out there, but I've calibrated contrast & brightness and I generally don't have problems with them. So far, the only videos I experienced problems with were the aforementioned ones; SM64 and Tetrisphere are as bright as they should be (I'd even say Tetrisphere is more of the opposite — it's a bit whitish). And MK4 video is much darker than the picture I get on my emulator without adjusting the output plugin settings.
Posted: 3/12/2007 5:51 AM
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moozooh wrote:
(I'd even say Tetrisphere is more of the opposite — it's a bit whitish).
No.
Posted: 3/12/2007 5:54 AM
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