Why does zdaemon and gzdoom look so different to me?

[invictius]

[NaZa]

Tried Gamma Correction? (F11)

[Voros]

Short answer: because they are both differentish.
Zdaemon uses the software renderer. GZDoom uses OpenGL as its default renderer, so more effects are present.

[Swine & Roses]

Cranked up the Gamma settings too much, haven't you?

[dew]

You need to set vid_renderer to 0 and gamma to 666 to make GZdoom look properly.

[Doomkid]

I've heard some people mention that ZDaemon looks washed out after playing a lot of Doom in OGL, especially when using gamma correction.

Offtopic, but I have no idea how so many OpenGL users can just let the sprites clip into the ground.. The first thing I have to do when using an OGL port is adjust the sprite clipping and billboarding!

[MinerOfWorlds]

Doomkid said:

Offtopic, but I have no idea how so many OpenGL users can just let the sprites clip into the ground.. The first thing I have to do when using an OGL port is adjust the sprite clipping and billboarding!

I thought most ogl users adjusted the sprite clipping and billboarding. to me if you have the default settings of gzdoom (i don't know zandronum's default settings) it looks VERY bad or if you have gamma correction on.

[LexiMax]

It's been years since I touched the port, but to my memory ZDaemon's default gamma setting was higher than normal for some weird reason. Make sure your gamma is set to 1.0 for a 1:1 comparison.

Also, unless you're running relatively recent GZDoom releases, OpenGL can't quite replicate software lighting falloff very well (which causes things closer to your vision to appear brighter), making your surroundings look "flatter" than they should.

[Mr.Rocket]

I like the way the dead player sprite looks in software mode in Zdaemon compared to how it looks in Gzdoom hardware mode.
It probably has to do with sprite clipping in hardware render?

[VGA]

Yes, there is a sprite clipping option in GZDoom, it has Always, Smart etc.

Not sure what is the default.

[dugan]

In GZDoom:

Options->Display Options->OpenGL Options->Preferences->Sector Light Mode

It's probably set to Standard. Change it to Software.