"The deep" too dark

[maaltan]

I just started my second continent.  Near the starting point, i found a new terrain called "the deep" .  I understand it is supposed to be a higher level area, but is it supposed to be so dark?   it is basically black on black with a smattering of purple floating things of pain.   also none of the light spells help.  In fact, i think they actually make things blacker.

[Mánagarmr]

The Deep is pretty much Hell on Earth, only in a more Cthulhu way than Lucifer way. It's pretty much designed to be dark and difficult to navigate.

[maaltan]

Difficult to navigate is one thing but putting me in a cave without a flashlight is silly. Especially since the game thought i should be surrounded by it. On my monitor (or something) all i see is the faintest whiffs of pixels here and there.   I threw together a quick texture pack that makes the landscape as visible as the other biomes without losing it's flavor.  It is still pretty creepy imo.

i basically ran an gimp auto-levels filter on all the problem resources and dimmed the brightness back down a tad.  Not 100% happy with the plant edging, but it works for now.

[tigersfan]

It sounds like your monitor might be set too dark. Have you tried turning up the gamma?

[Coppermantis]

It must be your monitor, I can see just fine in the Deep.

[maaltan]

Can gamma be set in game?  I wasn't able to find it.  My graphics card (amd) drivers sets things for  the active mode only.  If i alt-tab out to set gamma, i just set it for my desktop, the game wont change.  I can poke around and set my desktop to the exact same mode as the game and set it that way....  but the texture pack was less work.

I agree it is probably my monitor or just me, I have to tweak the gamma continuously depending on whats going on in the game, what time of day it is, etc.   i think most of my problem is the stupid dynamic contrast i can't disable. 

<rant>I think person who invented that should be "severely reprimanded".  I've never seen it implemented well and from what i can tell its only purpose is to let them cheat on the panel contrast ratio specs. </rant>

Anyway...  If others are in my boat, i hope the texture pack helps you.

[Mánagarmr]

Dynamic contrast is indeed a spawn of the devil :/ Try turning your monitor brightness up a notch. If I run on my sRGB mode, the Deep is indeed VERY dark. I usually run on Standard or FPS setting (much brighter). (Monitor pre-sets)