Quite frankly I do not understand what the problem is. GZDOOM is not vanilla DOOM.
The engine has undergone such extensive changes that variations in every aspect of the game, display and gameplay, are to be expected.
Having a consensus between player A and player B is mostly impossible. Not only do individual players perceive colours differently, is is also how various monitor settings affect the colours and light levels on the screen. Describing each display mode will be interpreted by different players in different ways, Graf Zahl explained that already above. Opening the ini file to tweak various variables to suit is an option which most players seem to ignore.
To satisfy everyone, the best way would be to use non descriptors, like numbers or letters. However, I fear that even then the same discussion will be had.
I have not yet seen any proof of what the discussion is about, in the form of comparative screenshots. Probably because the differences would turn out to be minuscule. However, that would also produce another torrent of differing opinions.
If someone is so dead set on playing the game looking exactly as original DOOM then let them break out the old 486 machine and have at it. But then the complaints would ......
Quite frankly I do not understand what the problem is. GZDOOM is not vanilla DOOM.
The engine has undergone such extensive changes that variations in every aspect of the game, display and gameplay, are to be expected.
Having a consensus between player A and player B is mostly impossible. Not only do individual players perceive colours differently, is is also how various monitor settings affect the colours and light levels on the screen. Describing each display mode will be interpreted by different players in different ways, Graf Zahl explained that already above. Opening the ini file to tweak various variables to suit is an option which most players seem to ignore.
To satisfy everyone, the best way would be to use non descriptors, like numbers or letters. However, I fear that even then the same discussion will be had.
I have not yet seen any proof of what the discussion is about, in the form of comparative screenshots. Probably because the differences would turn out to be minuscule. However, that would also produce another torrent of differing opinions.
If someone is so dead set on playing the game looking exactly as original DOOM then let them break out the old 486 machine and have at it. But then the complaints would ......
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