Re: Freeciv vs. Xconq

[Hans Ronne <hronne at pp dot sbbs dot se>]

>Erik Sigra wrote:
>>
>> Stan Shebs wrote:
>> > ???  The standard game's infantry and armor are mostly shades of
>> > green
>>
>> Yea. Another guy told me this earlier today. Then I started a game, and
>> when I increased the brilliance of my monitor, I discovered that thoose
>> two units actually are green rather than black.
>
>A side-effect of different screen gammas or something - images tend
>to be too dark on Linux or too light on Macs.  Also delicate in the
>case of ground units; they should be green because of their usual
>camo, but you don't actually want them to blend into the terrain
>*too* well!  I could probably brighten the interiors, leave the
>edges darker to keep them visible.

Actually, these images also look black on the Mac, at least with the normal
(default) gamma setting. This happened about one year ago. Before that they
were OK on both Linux and Mac. One of those small details that never
bothered me enough to even mention ...

Hans

Hans Ronne

hronne@pp.sbbs.se