DiMarzio on 4/5/2013 at 16:30
I've had difficulties getting my bloom settings just right. The glowing effect is always too subtle and/or the reflecting effect is too colorful, and frankly speaking I don't know too well what all those parameters do. So I just left them at some state which is standable, but not good. I saw also there's this "distortionfx" setting and I have it on, but I don't see any remarkable difference. And as discussed (
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=140837) here I adjusted the echo. But everything else is pretty much Greek to me.
So are there any instructions to use cam_ext.cfg? I'd like to tweak around a bit and see what I like, but I don't know what to do, and I guess I'm not the only one. Are there also some other files that can be tweaked? I know there are install.cfg and darkinst.cfg, but they just handle the paths and can be left untouched once everything's working, am I right? And then there's cam_mod.ini, cam.cfg, dark.cfg and some stuff in doc folder... Funnily enough this hasn't yet been discussed too thoroughly.
So please share if you have any instructions about those files and do share your settings possibly with screenshots so we noobs can finally have good looking bloom! And then we can have a debate who has the best looking bloom :D and whatnot. I will be sharing my settings also, but now I have to get going.
kdau on 4/5/2013 at 21:45
Quote Posted by DiMarzio
So please share if you have any instructions about those files and do share your settings possibly with screenshots so we noobs can finally have good looking bloom! And then we can have a debate who has the best looking bloom :D and whatnot. I will be sharing my settings also, but now I have to get going.
My understanding is that the bloom settings partly depend on your graphics card, so one person's best settings may not be another's. (In my poor old graphics card's case, any bloom at all slows things down to a near-halt.) Some other notes on the files, though:
* The
install.cfg/darkinst.cfg files used to be useful for installing certain mods, but there's a much better way with NewDark, so yes, they can be left alone.
* I'd recommend against modifying anything in
dark.cfg, as many FMs override it. Most of it is just about the design of the game interface screens.
* Most everything in
cam.cfg is either automatically set for you, or can be set on the in-game Options screens.
* Most importantly, you probably want to enable
new_mantle in
cam_ext.cfg to allow easier mantling in narrow/tight areas. Many of the recent FMs expect this to be on. (Remove the semicolon ";" from the beginning of the
new_mantle line.)
* The
distortionfx setting, as the file describes, mostly just turns on the waves of visible heat emanating from fire arrows as they move.
* If your graphics card can handle it, enable the
multisampletype setting to get anti-aliasing.
*
cam_mod.ini is very useful. By adding paths to the
mod_path variable, you can use various mods while keeping them in subfolders, leaving your main install directory more clean. For example, if you had a subfolder
Mods in your Thief directory, and had a subfolders in there for (
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=131652) t2skies and (
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=119451) NTEX, you would set the line as follows:
Code:
mod_path Mods\t2skies+Mods\NTEX
*
cam_mod.ini is also where you can choose to have FMSel always appear when starting Thief, by enabling the
fm option.
