Question about Glows

spamclark15 · Post by **spamclark15** » Sat Jun 15, 2019 5:56 pm

So I have glowing enabled in GZDOOM but I'm noticing some things that are glowing that seemingly shouldn't be, such as blood and pinky demons. My guess is that it's simply going by colors of the game palette and anything that uses those colors glows? I'm curious.

Post by **Enjay** » Sat Jun 15, 2019 7:26 pm

What you you mean "glows"? Dynamic lights? Brightmaps?

Are you loading any mods?

If I understand your description correctly, then what you describe shouldn't be happening.

Got a screenshot?

Can you post a startup log?

spamclark15 · Post by **spamclark15** » Sat Jun 15, 2019 7:54 pm

No 3rd party mods, only the files that GZDOOM includes. I'm not sure what the correct term is. Here are 2 screenshots from DOOM II showing a shotgun guy corpse and a pinky corpse glowing when the player is close. Other than doom2.wad, brightmaps.pk3 and lights.pk3 are being loaded.

Post by **Enjay** » Sun Jun 16, 2019 2:51 am

Hmmm... it looks like it might be the bloom setting. I didn't even think of that because I never use it. I'm not a fan of the effect generally (even in other games) and i've seen it do similar things like this in Doom.

I can't check right now but I think the effect strength is configurable. You might try toning it down a bit.

Additional thought: does it only happen when you are really close to things? It could be the "things get lighter near the player" effect of some lighting modes.

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Sun Jun 16, 2019 7:07 am

Bloom affects lots of things it shouldn't. I really like the effect where it is intended but it's so totally uncontrollable that it's essentially worthless.

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