[TrashMan]

I got to say that I'm sorta dissapointed.

Before upgrading my PC I played with the ambient set to 65 and glowmaps turned on (other stuff was mostly off) and I liked it - the space seemd REAL. Dark..with ship lights the only thing you can spot at a distance.
Parts of the ship facing the sun were lit, the other side was dark and mysterious.. I liked it.

And now I play with the latest Media files and everything turned on. Specular maps are so bright I can se a warship from miles away clearly. They are lit from every side, shining bright like a friggin beacon.

Is this a glitch in the SCP3.6.9-R2 or is it supposed to be like that?

[Mars]

Screenshot? I don't know if it's your personal taste or if there's somthing wrong, but I'd guess the latter rather than the former.

[TrashMan]

I'll see if I can make some good screenshots, but you can really see it for yourself.

jsur play with specular on and look at the ship and the lighting, and then play wihtout specular.

[karajorma]

I'll see if I can make some good screenshots, but you can really see it for yourself.

Not if it's due to a bug on your PC we can't.

[Pnakotus]

I play on ambient 20, and from the 'dark side' ships are so dark as to be almost invisible on most missions.  Missions with lots of lighting are different, though - should the lit surfaces be less bright?

[Mars]

Well, try with the following command line parameters:

-ambient_factor 75 -spec_exp 1.0 -spec_tube 1.0 -spec_point 0.6 -spec_static 0.8 -allslev

[Cyker]

I'll see if I can make some good screenshots, but you can really see it for yourself.

jsur play with specular on and look at the ship and the lighting, and then play wihtout specular.

I had the opposite problem - I couldn't ****ing see anything

In my case, I had to jack up the Ambient, so for you maybe you need to turn it down...?

[pecenipicek]

Well, try with the following command line parameters:

-ambient_factor 75 -spec_exp 1.0 -spec_tube 1.0 -spec_point 0.6 -spec_static 0.8 -allslev

-allslev?

[Mars]

  Forgot to take that off.

[pecenipicek]

what does it do?

[karajorma]

Makes it possible to play all singleplayer levels from the techroom without completing the campaign that they are in.

[pecenipicek]

oh. thanks
 didnt find an explanation for it in the wiki...

[Mars]

I asked about that, seems that the reason it isn't in the Wiki is because it is akin to a cheat code.

[Wanderer]

Thats kinda odd... given that FSwiki does have cheat pages for both FS1 and FS2

[Taristin]

Cheats are one thing, jumping ahead and skipping missions is totally different. You lose the storyline with allslev. With cheats you can still do entire levels one by one and know what goes on.

[taylor]

I'm contemplating just getting rid of -allslev altogether and going the the same CTRL-SHIFT-S hotkey that works for ships/weapons/intel in the techroom.  That way you don't have to run the game with or without all missions visible and just can toggle it while on the mission simulator screen.  That also makes it more of an intentional thing too, not something that new users would turn on by mistake or without realizing exactly what it does.

[Mars]

I think it's a good idea 

[TrashMan]

Well, try with the following command line parameters:

-ambient_factor 75 -spec_exp 1.0 -spec_tube 1.0 -spec_point 0.6 -spec_static 0.8 -allslev

Tried this...no effect. It's still WAY too bright. Each ship looks like it has 20 reflectors pointed at it from all angles.


b.t.w. - did anyone notice that most HTL fighters are missing INSIGNIAS????

[pecenipicek]

turn the ambient factor down.


also, i think that insignias have been borked for a looooooong time now...

[StratComm]

Most of the HTL fighters are indeed missing them, because when they were done the insignias looked, quite frankly, like total crap.  They've since been fixed to use normal lighting but at the time they were like neon signs on the sides of ships.