[Danukem]

I fired up my Attrition mod for the first time in ages with the latest build, and to my surprise the player's health is displayed with a dark shade. All the other hud displays are bright, as intended. I looked at the code and the shade value I am using is 0, which has always displayed the health number as bright.

getplayer[screenpeek].i temp
getactor[temp].extra tempb
digitalnumber 2930 46 191 tempb 0 4 289 0 0 xdim ydim
digitalnumber 2930 45 190 tempb 0 2 256 0 0 xdim ydim

Note that the shade parameter is the 0 after the tempb variable.
I tried using digitalnumberz instead, and I tried using different orientation values, but it remains dark. The code for displaying other hud elements which works correctly is identical in the relevant respects.

[Danukem]

Here is a screenshot showing the problem. The health display used to be the same shade as the ammo count display. My code hasn't changed.

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[Spiker]

That looks pretty shady! Can anyone shed some light o that? Sorry I couldn't help, had a good laugh though Oh, yeah please help him coders.

[Evil Ash]

What is your r_shadescale set to?

[Danukem]

Evil Ash, on 15 June 2015 - 10:16 AM, said:

What is your r_shadescale set to?

Not sure, but that would only affect the game world, not the hud. Also, I am using identical shade values for other hud elements (shade 0) so they should all have the same shade regardless.

[Evil Ash]

I'm not much on coding or etc. but I notice when I adjust r_shadescale, it impacts the HUD.
Certain things (the main bar, not-select text, etc.) gets darker.
While "light" things do not change (font selected, the health number, etc.)

Your screenshot reminds me of this. Almost like your health bar is not somehow defined to be fullbright like other HUD elements.

Like this:



Top is default shadescale.
Bottom is 5.

But like I said, I'm not as knowledgeable as others here.
Just something I noticed.

[Fox]

It works just fine for me. The only thing I can think of is that you are using pal 2 instead of zero and your red tint may vary from the game palette red.

Evil Ash, on 15 June 2015 - 01:29 PM, said:

Top is default shadescale.
Bottom is 5.

That's normal. It's defined like that in the source code.

[Danukem]

Fox, on 15 June 2015 - 01:38 PM, said:

The only thing I can think of is that you are using pal 2 instead of zero and your red tint may vary from the game palette red.

You are right and I was being an idiot for not noticing. At some point I must have put 2 in there for the pal and I have no idea why.

[TerminX]

Trooper Dan, on 15 June 2015 - 09:01 PM, said:

You are right and I was being an idiot for not noticing. At some point I must have put 2 in there for the pal and I have no idea why.

To be fair, we did change how palette tints work and it probably did look less wrong before. The grayscale technique was changed from decomposition using max values to something more similar to what an image editing program would output.