Any way to increase brightness of game/players?

[tardy swan]

try messing with the lighting module, there's a lot of things that lower settings on that module disable for performance that improve visibility

i'd say try setting it to medium_high? that enables ambient boost, which should brighten some darker environments, as well as enabling light averaging, which averages entity lighting between several points, rather than snapping to the closest one

this will lower your fps a bit though

medium_high however does not enable r_rimlight, which is something valve specifically added to make characters pop out more, I want to say that rimlighting might require phong to be enabled? but i could be misremembering

just checked, it does require phong to be enabled

I know some people disable phong because they prefer how it looks (plus the fps boost)

[proven hound]

*thanks, I will check those

settings out and see if they

improve anything :)*

- frogman