just bought Quake 3 from ebgames.com

[antitrustworthy]

First of all, Im really impressed with ebgames. Great price, speedy delivery!! Cant say enough about them!
Anyway.....
Quake 3 is running great exept for one thing. When you go into setup, then system, I cant control the brightness of my screen. Its kinda dark by default and I really want to change it. I have a Voodoo3, running Mandrake 8.0, Xfree4.0.3. It doesnt matter if I choose to use the Glide or OpenGL. Help is appreciated.

[pjsheehan]

Here ya go.. straight from Loki's site. It has something to do with the linux version :)

6. Display

* 6.4 How can I adjust the brightness? The slider seems to be disabled.

Answer:
In-game brightness is controlled by the r_gamma variable. From the command-line, you can set this manually, e.g.:

quake3 +set r_gamma 1.5

This is a floating point value (and much past 1.8 is unbearably bright, even on really dark cards with really dark monitors), and the default is 1.0.

You can also change it in-game by bringing down the console and typing:

/set r_gamma x.y
/vid_restart

Note that you have to do the vid_restart for the change to correctly take effect.


Hope this helps :D

Happy fragging

[ 25 July 2001: Message edited by: pjsheehan ]

[TheGimp]

setting r_ignorehwgamma to 1 might help too :]

[antitrustworthy]

Thankyou so much for the help. I am kind of embarrassed that I didnt think to check Loki first. sorry :rolleyes:

[demetrius]

The command r_intensity is a very useful variable to control brightness of shadowed areas in Q3. It works independently of r_gamma so you can get a nice balance of overall brightness compared to shadowed brightness.