My black coloured blocks are too dark. | Trackmania | Page 1

strange relic May 5, 2024, 12:24 PM

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try enabling "other reflections" in settings

void yew May 5, 2024, 12:25 PM

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Will try that now.

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Its kinda made it lighter. right? @strange relic

strange relic May 5, 2024, 12:26 PM

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that looks better

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yea

void yew May 5, 2024, 12:26 PM

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anyway way to get lighter or is this as close as I can get

strange relic May 5, 2024, 12:26 PM

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turn up your monitor brightness?

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or your gamma?

void yew May 5, 2024, 12:27 PM

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Hmm, Its a shame the game doesnt have ingame brightness settings

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Ill try play with these settings

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thanks Chris

pure hamlet May 5, 2024, 2:24 PM

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it looks like you're on lower shader settings which could be the issue

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cuz what you're missing is the ambience specularity

void yew May 5, 2024, 2:25 PM

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I have it set to High on shader.

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Ill check again in a bit to make sure

pure hamlet May 5, 2024, 2:26 PM

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yeah you gotta go to Very High for the entire texture stack to be there

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but very high shader is significantly more demanding

void yew May 5, 2024, 2:26 PM

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Its on high, will try very high now

pure hamlet May 5, 2024, 2:27 PM

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Also i strongly recommend you use the "FXAA" instead of the TAA, the built in TAA hardly treats any edges there

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but that's unrelated

void yew May 5, 2024, 2:28 PM

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I was on that

pure hamlet May 5, 2024, 2:28 PM

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oh hm yeah okay

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all good then

void yew May 5, 2024, 2:36 PM

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Its better. Just wish the side of it was a lot brighter.

pure hamlet May 5, 2024, 2:37 PM

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hm no it's not better actually

void yew May 5, 2024, 2:38 PM

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Is it a plugin doing this?

pure hamlet May 5, 2024, 2:38 PM

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you're already getting all the ambient shading on High shaders

pure hamlet May 5, 2024, 2:38 PM

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void yew Is it a plugin doing this?

no

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what are your specs?

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what GPU do you use

void yew May 5, 2024, 2:38 PM

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RTX 3080

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7800x3d cpu, can never remember the name

pure hamlet May 5, 2024, 2:39 PM

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yeah that'S fine

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you good on performance and compatibility XD

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might be just a monitor gamma setting situation

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which can also be driver side in nvidia control panel

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that would show up in screenshots as well

void yew May 5, 2024, 2:40 PM

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ahh

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Never changed Nvidia control stuff before. Where is the gamma located

pure hamlet May 5, 2024, 2:41 PM

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i mean i wouldn't change it from default

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just make sure that it is at default

pure hamlet May 5, 2024, 2:41 PM

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void yew Never changed Nvidia control stuff before. Where is the gamma located

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should be on the left there

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something with desktop colours

void yew May 5, 2024, 2:42 PM

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Yeah its on default

pure hamlet May 5, 2024, 2:43 PM

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verify with your phone maybe

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if it looks the same on your screen as it does on your phone

void yew May 5, 2024, 2:43 PM

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oh ok

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one sec, I fell xD

pure hamlet May 5, 2024, 2:43 PM

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just to make sure the monitor isn't displaying things too dark and you never noticed

pure hamlet May 5, 2024, 2:43 PM

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void yew one sec, I fell xD

clumsy moment

void yew May 5, 2024, 2:44 PM

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ok pc one :

pure hamlet May 5, 2024, 2:44 PM

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nono don't post anything

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you just need to look at the same screenshot

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on PC and on phone

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at the same time and compare

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if they look the same

void yew May 5, 2024, 2:45 PM

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sorry, im working on like 3 hours sleep

pure hamlet May 5, 2024, 2:45 PM

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all good

void yew May 5, 2024, 2:47 PM

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There is more colour on my phone

pure hamlet May 5, 2024, 2:49 PM

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sure but that's expected

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phones oversaturate shit always since years

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but if the black details are the same

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then that's fine

void yew May 5, 2024, 2:49 PM

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yeah they are the same

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Kind of annoying I can't get the same brightness as the example image

pure hamlet May 5, 2024, 2:51 PM

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lets actually look at footage from other people

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and not just compare to W*rtual

void yew May 5, 2024, 2:51 PM

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I got the footage on the example from wirtual. Currently watching scrapie

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His block is lighter too.

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His shadows are soft and light that cross the black block

pure hamlet May 5, 2024, 2:53 PM

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maybe the difference is them actually playing on lower settings

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KEKW

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and you playing on higher better settings

void yew May 5, 2024, 2:53 PM

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haha. I did actually play on low.

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Turning shadows down makes it really dark

pure hamlet May 5, 2024, 2:53 PM

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i mean all the screens you sent so far were with High

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right

void yew May 5, 2024, 2:53 PM

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yeah

pure hamlet May 5, 2024, 2:53 PM

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void yew Turning shadows down makes it really dark

nono i don't mean shadows

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just shader

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leave the rest as is

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just try what shader Low looks like

void yew May 5, 2024, 2:54 PM

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this is my current for reference

pure hamlet May 5, 2024, 2:54 PM

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yeah leave everything as is

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just shaders quality to low, restart, see what it looks like

void yew May 5, 2024, 2:55 PM

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just driving back up

pure hamlet May 5, 2024, 2:55 PM

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keep in mind that the game needs a restart for shader changes to apply

void yew May 5, 2024, 2:56 PM

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yeah I did

pure hamlet May 5, 2024, 2:56 PM

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OKAY

void yew May 5, 2024, 2:57 PM

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Bingo

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I can see clearly now

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Thanks @pure hamlet :)

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Because you are super helpful, can I remove this somehow?

pure hamlet May 5, 2024, 3:14 PM

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i don't know XD

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i'm not a tm2020 player really by any stretch :P

pure hamlet May 5, 2024, 3:15 PM

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void yew

i personally would go back to Very High shaders tho for every other map

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it's just really a big difference and worth going for with an RTX3080

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majority of the performance issues aren't tied to graphics anyways

void yew May 5, 2024, 3:42 PM

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pure hamlet it's just really a big difference and worth going for with an RTX3080

Dark blocks where I can't see what Im doing is a big no no. I don't always need to run a game with fancy graphics :), Id much prefer being able to see.

pure hamlet May 5, 2024, 3:44 PM

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then i would run max settings and up the gamma instead

void yew May 5, 2024, 3:45 PM

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I did try this. But the gamma doesn't make it more visible

pure hamlet May 5, 2024, 3:45 PM

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that's odd

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could always try the monitor settings gamma, in the monitor itself

strange relic May 5, 2024, 5:18 PM

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void yew Because you are super helpful, can I remove this somehow?

click this left arrow

#My black coloured blocks are too dark.