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hi there!

i just downloaded OA to get some bloom in Q3 and other available stuff, but when i typed in the console the bloom-related commands, played with all the values, just nothing happened. tried it both on my notebook (gf gt540m) and desktop (gf 560ti) without any luck. i really don't know what im doing wrong. and no, i didn't disable bloom in the first place by giving it 0 :I
(maybe i installed it incorrectly? i put everything from baseq3 into baseoa.)

please help, thx in advance!!

EDIT: in short: what should i do to make q3 look like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf74YOhuccQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf74YOhuccQ)

Put everything from baseq3 to baseoa? Doesn't seem a great thing... maybe better to copy the whole "baseq3" folder to OA installation (or homepath) directory (creating openarena\baseq3) and then launching it as a mod (http://Manual/Using_Mods). I tried it once, and more or less it worked, even if with some problems here and there... (but I didn't care about bloom).

Are you using OA 0.8.5 executables?

For q3 hi res textures... At ioquake3 (http://ioquake3.org/) site, in this page (http://ioquake3.org/extras/replacement_content/), there is an hi-res texture pack to download... I don't know if it is somehow related with the video you linked.

yes im using, 0.8.5. now i did a clean install on OA and copied baseq3 over into its root directory just like you said, yet still no luck.

Does bloom work if you play with standard OpenArena instead of q3-ing it?
(DO NOT LINK) h t t p s : / / openarena . wikia . com/wiki/Manual/Graphic_options#Bloom

it doesn't. i set it in the setup menu, turned bloom and flares on, none of them worked (notebook and desktop). that's odd.

EDIT: actually i would accept the issue on my notebook as i had anomalies playing other idtech3 games on it, like COD and MOHAA. everything runs fine except that the colors are livid and inert making the game a lil bit darker than normally, but maybe it's just the native display my card can effort. can it be some rendering disorder? i only have default and voodoo gl drivers in the setup menu.

any ideas?

did anyone actually get bloom/flares working on the latest releases (0.8.1/0.8.5). can it be it's just not supported anymore? i've tried it on 3 different pc-s with the very same results.

Not sure for 0.8.1, but openarena.exe (windows executable) that is in the zip of 0.8.5 works.

It's 0.8.8 executable (well, if you download from the 08x binaries forum thread, anything after version 25) that will autodisable bloom unless you will force 32bit textures before -"default" and "16 bit" values will disable bloom- (but in this case, you should find the option disabled again when re-accessing the menu).

Did you try using a clean configuration?

the funny thing is, now whenever i try to start a clean configuration (i reextract the .zip files), all my configs are the same as before, e.g. player's name, controls, video options.. everything. as if it read from the register, which is also funny, coz i never actually installed the game. the textures are set to 32bit alrite, it's the color depth that switches back to default all the time.

EDIT: sry for being late with this, but thanks a bunch for trying to help me out here

Configuration is stored in %APPDATA%\OpenArena, so every user has its own configuration on multiuser-systems.

Color depth cannot be changed anymore.

To get a completely clean configuration, you have to delete (or rename) q3config.cfg file, that is in your "homepath" folder (under Windows, the one that Sago said).

More info about configuration path:
(DO NOT LINK) h t t p s : / / openarena . wikia . com/wiki/Homepath

there goes the voodoo and onboard crowd.

I thought that was valid only for Bloom.

SUCCESS!! deleting the q3config.cfg in baseq3 and oa in %AppData% and starting it all over really did the trick!! thanks a lot, guys!!
now all i gotta figure out, is it enough to manipulate the values regarding bloom and enable flares to get this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuhQCra6Jvg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuhQCra6Jvg) or does it incorporate any other 3rd party tool. what do you think? (im only interested in the light effects now, the texture pack is pak_Metal-Tech v2.0 Final.pk3 btw.. well at least i think it is as i have that and it looks pretty muck alike)

That video does not specify what they used to achieve bloom and lens flare. Standard quake3 had not them. ioquake3 (http://ioquake3.org) added lens flare, and OpenArena inherited it from ioquake3. As far as I know, ioquake3 does not have bloom: bloom is a feature added in OpenArena.

I can imagine that the video, unless playing Q3 as a mod in OA, has probably been created by using another idTech3 fork.

PS: you can fine-tune bloom and flares by using a series of variables:
type \r_lensreflection and hit TAB for lens flare variables;
type \r_bloom and hit TAB for bloom variables.

that's what i was looking for. you got my Q3 look hardcore. the fun is finally tripled! thank you, guys!!