Brightness/contrast

[Arak Koba]

I love the Xiati shipsets too; but yeah- they can be a pain to spot on the main map.

[HEMAN]

Lisif Deoral wrote; On my display, SEIV is very dark. I usually keep my monitor's brightness & contrast settings to 60%, but I have to increase them to 80%-90% for SEIV.
YEP, on my system too i have to set it up to 75% 80% even just to see clearly enough on empire menu the total for Organics,even playing in a dark room?, unless im going blind, organics has a lower brites then rads or minerals, among other things?.I emailed MM about a month ago for an option on this, ive recieved no reply yet, hopefully more players will email him for this?.

Ferengi Rules of Acquisition # 102 Nature decays,but Latinum Last forever.

[oleg]

One solution would be to low resolution:
if you running 1024:768, switch monitor to 800:600. All objects (including ships) will appear much bigger. You will have to scroll the main menu bar, but there will be less problems spotting ships.

[ 01 April 2002: Message edited by: oleg ]

[Gryphin]

I do have bad color vision and do reconize the problems you mention.
I would like to see MM let us change the background colors from inside the program. I wonder if it is possible to change the background file or is it hard coded? I belive the main maps can be modded.
I would like to see:
The text on the Resources screen changed to white and put at 10pts Courior New, (or other non profortional font). This would help the colums of number line up.
Meanwhile I keep al; magnifying glass at my computer and have removed ship sets that are too difficult to see.

[geoschmo]

Sallegans are another tough one. Not so much because of the brightness, but because the ships are so darn small. Some of the early ones just look like the stars in the background. Very frustrating.

Of course it could just be that we are all so addicted to this game that our eyes are going bad from staring at the monitor.

Geoschmo

[Baron Munchausen]

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Originally posted by geoschmo:
Sallegans are another tough one. Not so much because of the brightness, but because the ships are so darn small. Some of the early ones just look like the stars in the background. Very frustrating.

Of course it could just be that we are all so addicted to this game that our eyes are going bad from staring at the monitor.

Geoschmo

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The Piundon, Praetorian, Terran, and Sallega shipsets were all done by the same artist -- Tim McElwaine. He admitted that they were produced to MM's specs before the game was actually ready to test them. So, he had no idea how they would actually look in game play and had gone on to other things by the time the game was available for beta testing. Most of the other sets were tested in the game and modified to look better. Last year he posted to the SE4 discussion group that he was re-rendering his shipsets to look better but that MM would have to release the modified graphics since they owned the rights. I've been pestering MM for the improved graphics ever since but have not had the slightest reply.

You'd think that SE IV GOLD would be the perfect opportunity to use improvements like this, too. Has anyone compared the graphics on the gold disk to the originals?

[ 01 April 2002: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]

[Bman]

I've gone as far as editting the graphics for those ships and putting a big red square around them so that they can't sneak up on me in a game. I've wondered if anyone has used the dirty tactic of creating "invisible" ships and using them on PBW?