Death realm

[Josellis]

Hello 

I am a total n00b and, when I was wondering around, I fell down I respawned in a strange dark place (I heard it is the death realm ...) but I tried for one hour (60 minutes  ) to leave this place, but each time I fall down (again  ) of one of those little ledges. Why Because I really can't see ANYTHING in some places (not joking) for me, it is just a black screen with the chat and bars (skills, quit, and I don't know what else )

So I was wondering how I can actually see something in this realm ... and maybe also some little instructions


Thank you

Josellis 

[LigH]

Welcome.

No wonder you can't see anything behind so many smilies...

The game itself does not support "Gamma correction". But you may be able to use some external tools, depending on your Operating System, graphic card and drivers.

Search the "Support" forums for the keywords "gamma correction".

[Josellis]

just wondering .... where is the support forum ?

[Bereror]

just wondering .... where is the support forum ?

Support

[zanzibar]

Hi Josellis,

The death realm can be a real pain to get out of.  While using -fullbright is a cheat, sometimes it's the only way to see where you're going without getting a new monitor.  When I first started playing Planeshift, the nights were so dark that you couldn't see anything even by Harnquist's store.  To solve it, I would cheat by having Warcraft running in the background because it made everything brighter.

A better solution is to move slowly, use 3rd person perspective, follow others, and to avoid dying.

[Josellis]

and does anyone know if this "bug" will be fixed ? cause it seems they are a lot of people complaining about that ...

and I made it !!!, I finally got out of the  place

[zanzibar]

and does anyone know if this "bug" will be fixed ? cause it seems they are a lot of people complaining about that ...

and I made it !!!, I finally got out of the  place

It's supposed to be dark.

[Thyme]

Actually,  I had the same problem when I first started playing in January... some areas of the Death Realm were completely black, and I kept falling. Then mysteriously one day, after an update I think, I could suddenly see everything...

I'm not sure what the cause of this is... but I think that it is certain that the death realm is not supposed to be absolutely pitch black...

Sorry I don't have any solutions on how to fix it since I don't know how mine got fixed!

(and I didn't change any of the settings on my laptop)

[holmj2674]

Yep, exactly what happened to me, Death realm was so Dark I couldn't see my hand in front of my face, and the sewers were so dark I was pretty much confined to killing rats at the enterence.Then one day... presto I could see! Very strange, but VERY welcome.

[Mordaan]

You can try a couple of things.  In PS setup go to the relight panel, select death realm, and relight map.  It will take a looong time but maybe it will be better next time you enter.  You can do that with any zone that seems too dark.  Also the -fullbright option was mentioned.  Just add that to your command line in the PS icon that launches the game like so: ...\PlaneShift\psclient.exe -fullbright

[dying_inside]

Personnally I used to have my camera pointing downwards when i got to the spiral ledges. that way you can see the edge of the ledges and judge where your feet are. 
Try it if get stuck again.
At the moment i can see fine in the death realm which is cool.

[Hellmark]

My main monitor died, and my spare isnt as bright, so even cranked up to max, Death's realm was pitch black. I worked for like an hour and a half to get out. Once I used fullbright, it took like a minute. Now I run fullbright all the time to fix the stuff in the forest along Ojavedo, etc.

[Peacer]

Hi Josellis,

The death realm can be a real pain to get out of.  While using -fullbright is a cheat, sometimes it's the only way to see where you're going without getting a new monitor.  When I first started playing Planeshift, the nights were so dark that you couldn't see anything even by Harnquist's store.  To solve it, I would cheat by having Warcraft running in the background because it made everything brighter.

A better solution is to move slowly, use 3rd person perspective, follow others, and to avoid dying.

when u are running it press ctrl+alt+del and close it in the processes tab to keep the brightness without warcraft still running i find quake better to do such thing although it may make it to bright. But i've never needed to use it anyway!

[Josellis]

I'm trying to relight the map atm, but it is taking some time .... but I can wait 

And the -fullbright thing, I didn't quite understand (if the relight map doesn't work ...) Do I just add " -fullbright" at the end of the shortcut to the file

[Bereror]

And the -fullbright thing, I didn't quite understand (if the relight map doesn't work ...) Do I just add " -fullbright" at the end of the shortcut to the file [/font]

But this function is not fully supported and will be removed in the future. It may even not work for you and give some strange results. Using the -fullbright option is considered cheating, because some parts of the Yliakum should be dark.

And any reports of bugs caused by the -fullbright option will be ignored