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The main issues with colors can usually be traced to improper Gama as well as improper color correction even between similar models of monitors.

You could adjust the game settings all day long and the results will still be off as compared to a properly balanced monitor which I'm sure BladeKiller has done on her end.

This seems to be the main problem as many seem to have a broad range of coloring complaints such as this is to pink when referencing a texture that is in fact red or even that reds are to dark to the point that it's becoming brown.

An improperly balanced monitor by far is the most common problem between the differences in color selection versus the viewable result. A friend of mine owned a small printing company that there was many times he would print the quantities the client asked him to right from the master and the result was not even close to what the client though it should have been based on a poorly set up monitor.

First rule in computer generated art is to always Gama and color match your monitor else no one will see the world as you do. ;)

postit, on 29 October 2012 - 12:47 AM, said:

What I see is not so much a problem of player model textures but one of map design that does not account for for players running through it over and above the design as a playable map.

As much as we can be blamed for less than visible player models under a multitude of different conditions the map design as far as observation goes is equally at fault.

To correct his problem in HD we are/will be using rim lighting on the player models to force the necessary 10% difference in color and contrast to force a higher level of player model visibility.

Brainie, on 29 October 2012 - 06:21 PM, said:

In regards to what? Adding rim lighting?

Technically there is but unless you want to get into the details there is no practical way of adding rim lighting to md3 player models.

Issue wise it's always going to be a case and has historically been a Q3/idtech3 problem with player model visibility, with out the addition of active dynamic lighting, and will not be a problem easily solved no mater what the color of the skins are.

It's always been more of a factor the players just get use to them and the pro players figure out how to use contrast difference to their advantage. This is just the nature of game design in general as what someone would see as a disadvantage others would see as an advantage and if anything it's the map that allows for such conditions to occur.

If anything the map being used has more to do with the variations in opinions as to the current player textures as the map being used has elements in the design that tends to make the player model jump out from the back ground.

Make a red or blue wall and stand in front of it guess what?

N1n I did a gradient with RGB red and a darker shade of red. Then there are other layers on top of that for shading and texture. If you look at the screenshot MajkiFajki uploaded on the first page you can see it is very red and not pink. I do see red differently from you due to being female. Males do not see red as well as we do due to a difference in the way our eyes are made. The gradient adds some blue but this does not make pink. Pink is white and red. I think it is very rude of you to post what you think is better than what I have done. I find this insulting. You could have posted that picture as a suggestion but you choose to show it as an insult instead.

BTW, the red team uses black vests so what is so bad about a black top. I shouldn't have bothered listening to all the people who don't like the orange skins. It's always the same thing. I listen and try to do what people ask for and then get nothing but grief for the effort.