[Rick James]

<Rick_James> Oh, for f*ck's sake.
<HerraTohtori> pretty much
<The_E> The voice of reason needs a megaphone....

[Mobius]

Are there any recommended monitor settings?

[Rodo]

I'm using this on a samsung LCD and it looks ok to me:

brightness 20, contrast 65, color tone: warm;

[colecampbell666]

Are there any recommended monitor settings?

It varies completely from brand to brand and monitor to monitor. I'd suggest taking some general advice on settings and tweaking it from there.

[Herra Tohtori]

Good monitor calibration site

That link should show a gamma calibration window. Squint your eyes; if the gradient pillar in the middle matches the "brightness" of the interlaced pillars on the sides of it at point 2.2, your monitor is reasonably well calibrated.

You can also look at this:




Again, move a bit further from the screen, keep the viewing angle as small as possible, and see if the brightness of the squares matches the brightness of the diamonds within them. Mine does that. Which means that for an LCD monitor, it's rather well calibrated. Most monitors need some sort of fiddling with gamma in the GPU driver settings. I use the RivaTuner's gamma calibration utility because it lets me save the gamma profile between driver changes. When you open RivaTuner's confusing interface, you'll want to click the upper "Customize" arrow, then select "Low-level desktop color schemes". Most likely you'll also want to edit each channel individually, so change to "custom color curve" mode. In my case, the window(s) look like this after calibration:

Primary display (Samsung SyncMaster 226BW)



Secondary display (Hyundai ImageQuest L72D)


I keep my monitor's settings at 50% brightness and 50% contrast when I am doing image editing (and most of the other time as well) and usually just set the brightness waay down when I'm reading something in the internets or writing something for a long time. Anyway, that site has a pretty comprehensive monitor calibration guides starting from brightness and contrast to colour calibration of gamma.

[Lt.Cannonfodder]

Do you want us to? Has there been any changes in the model itself, or is it just the starfield map that has changed?

I've upgraded both. The model itself now makes much better use of the texture space and there's no longer any stretching whatsoever. The texture itself is also much better than the old one.

Personally, I've always thought that the FS2 universe is rather more colourful than the relatively realistic effects in Galactica, and while that starfield is absolutely gorgeous for Galactica environment, I feel that the more colourful current MediaVP starfield might serve it's purpose better in FreeSpace 2 universe.

Nothing a quick Photoshop job wouldn't fix. I can easily produce a version with more colorful stars.

Also, from technical point of view... what's the field of view in that screenshot? Would I be missing much if I guessed something like -fov 0.55?

Default fov as I recall.

[Col. Fishguts]

Do you want us to? Has there been any changes in the model itself, or is it just the starfield map that has changed?

I've upgraded both. The model itself now makes much better use of the texture space and there's no longer any stretching whatsoever. The texture itself is also much better than the old one.

Well, is it available somewhere for download? If yes, I'd gladly take it.

[Lt.Cannonfodder]

Sorry, missed your post there Fishguts. I'll send you a download link via PM when I get home.

[Col. Fishguts]

Sorry, missed your post there Fishguts. I'll send you a download link via PM when I get home.

Or maybe not