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Another possibility might be a slight fade in/out effect so it isn't so jarring. |
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What about the lantern-light, that is lit over the readable, like it looks when the book isn´t frobbed and highlighted. But the light is only barely visible or not at all to guards, because this simulates the player lifting up the towel over the lantern slightly to be able to read and only to lit up the readable. |
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Unless we broke this, GUI's accept a parameter "matColor" that can define RGBA values for the material used for a background image ( such as a readable parchment ). We can hook a cvar into this value easily to affect the value but I suspect that ( similar to text scaling ) changes wont show up until the user restarts TDM? |
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The "matColor" method sounds quite promising. I wrote some code to automatically adjust the brightness/gamma when a readable was on screen. But in the end, that method didn't seem worth it. Instead, I just edited the DDS files of the following textures, lowering their brightness. ``` dds └── guis └── assets └── readables ├── books │ ├── book_leftpage_01.dds │ ├── book_leftpage_curled_01.dds │ ├── book_rightpage_01.dds │ └── book_rightpage_curled_01.dds └── sheets ├── newspaper_bridgeport01.dds ├── newspaper_bridgeport02.dds └── newspaper_bridgeport03.dds ``` |
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Thread: https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/21631-feature-request-different-gammabrightness-for-uireadablesmaps |
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Some research: matColor does indeed alter the brightness of a defined texture. It doesn't just define a color where no texture is used GUI cvars start with the convention of gui_* except r_skipGuiShaders which appears to be a cutoff cvar to stop all GUI triangles from rendering. ReloadGuis is smart and quickly detects changed files so it doesn't have to reload all defs. Might be a good idea to restrict the new cvar to only readable guis but will need to see if anything in the code makes that distinguishable ( probably needs info from the game side )? |
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Some limited success in Window and SimpleWindow with this: float mcl = idWindow::gui_matColor_bias.GetFloat(); matColor = idVec4( matColor.x() * mcl, matColor.y() * mcl, matColor.z() * mcl, matColor.w() * 1.0 ); need to figure out the best place in the loop to place it ( currently flickers ). |
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Better place in RenderSystem.cpp SetColor This can be used to pass general information to the current material, not just colors ============= */ void idRenderSystemLocal::SetColor( const idVec4 &rgba ) { guiModel->SetColor( rgba[0], rgba[1], rgba[2], rgba[3] ); } |
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