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Community Projects => The FreeSpace Upgrade Project => Topic started by: OverDhill on October 07, 2025, 08:42:10 pm

Title: Brightness
Post by: OverDhill on October 07, 2025, 08:42:10 pm

It has been awhile since I played around with FSO and on a new machine now.  How do you adjust the brightness as it seems it is greyed out in the Options screen.   I would like to make it a bit brighter.

Thanks

OverDhill

Title: Re: Brightness
Post by: Goober5000 on October 13, 2025, 12:26:45 am

I just fired it up and tried it out.  Visually, it looks greyed out, but the arrow icons are still clickable, and the game will brighten or dim as expected.

Title: Re: Brightness
Post by: Nyctaeus on October 15, 2025, 03:04:51 pm

This option is probably very outdated. I'd hit F3 lab, select a ship, select some background and start tweaking around all lighting options. I believe Exposure is what mostly interest you.

When you adjust the look of the game to your liking, create Lighting Profile (https://wiki.hard-light.net/index.php/Lighting_Profiles.tbl) for yourself. Not sure how to write that into commandline properties as it can be stored as a table in modern FSO. Just copy your desired values.

You can place such table in MVPs to apply for all the MediaVPs-dependant mods you play.