big improvement to colors. use standard 'palette.pal' by default.

cl_main.c

@@ -781,7 +781,7 @@ void CL_RelinkEntities (void)
                 dl->radius = 200 + (rand()&31);
                 dl->minlight = 32;
                 dl->die = cl.time + 0.1;
-                dl->color = palmapnofb[18][21][19]; //qb: dyncol
+                dl->color = palmapnofb[9][9][8]; //qb: dyncol
             }
             if (ent->effects & EF_BRIGHTLIGHT)
             {
@@ -790,15 +790,15 @@ void CL_RelinkEntities (void)
                 dl->origin[2] += 16;
                 dl->radius = 400 + (rand()&31);
                 dl->die = cl.time + 0.001;
-                dl->color = palmapnofb[25][22][18]; //qb: dyncol
+                dl->color = palmapnofb[13][11][9]; //qb: dyncol
             }
             if (ent->effects & EF_DIMLIGHT)
             {
                 dl = CL_AllocDlight (i);
                 VectorCopy (ent->origin,  dl->origin);
                 dl->radius = 200 + (rand()&31);
                 dl->die = cl.time + 0.001;
-                dl->color = palmapnofb[14][12][8]; //qb: dyncol
+                dl->color = palmapnofb[7][6][4]; //qb: dyncol
             }
 
         } // Manoel Kasimier
@@ -825,7 +825,7 @@ void CL_RelinkEntities (void)
                 dl->origin[2] += 16;
                 dl->radius = 100 + (rand()&31);
                 dl->die = cl.time + 0.05;
-                dl->color = palmapnofb[4][26][6]; //qb: dyncol
+                dl->color = palmapnofb[2][13][3]; //qb: dyncol
                 R_RocketTrail (oldorg, ent->origin, 3);
             }
             else if (ent->effects & EF_TRACER2)
@@ -835,7 +835,7 @@ void CL_RelinkEntities (void)
                 VectorCopy (ent->origin, dl->origin);
                 dl->radius = 100;
                 dl->die = cl.time + 0.05;
-                dl->color = palmapnofb[20][14][4];
+                dl->color = palmapnofb[10][7][2];
             }
             else if (ent->effects & EF_ROCKET)
             {
@@ -844,7 +844,7 @@ void CL_RelinkEntities (void)
                 VectorCopy (ent->origin, dl->origin);
                 dl->radius = 150;
                 dl->die = cl.time + 0.01;
-                dl->color = palmapnofb[28][12][2];
+                dl->color = palmapnofb[14][6][2];
             }
             else if (ent->effects & EF_GRENADE)
                 R_RocketTrail (oldorg, ent->origin, 1);
@@ -855,7 +855,7 @@ void CL_RelinkEntities (void)
                 VectorCopy (ent->origin, dl->origin);
                 dl->radius = 150;
                 dl->die = cl.time + 0.01;
-                dl->color = palmapnofb[28][6][6];
+                dl->color = palmapnofb[14][3][3];
             }
         } // Manoel Kasimier
         // Tomaz - QC Glow
@@ -867,7 +867,7 @@ void CL_RelinkEntities (void)
                 dl->radius = abs(ent->glow_size); // Manoel Kasimier - edited
                 dl->dark = (ent->glow_size < 0); // Manoel Kasimier
                 dl->die = cl.time + 0.001;
-                dl->color = palmapnofb[ent->glow_red >>2] [ent->glow_green >>2] [ent->glow_blue >>2]; //qb: dyncol
+                dl->color = palmapnofb[ent->glow_red >>3] [ent->glow_green >>3] [ent->glow_blue >>3]; //qb: dyncol
             }
 
         ent->forcelink = false;

cl_tent.c

@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ void CL_ParseTEnt (void)
         dl->radius = 350;
         dl->die = cl.time + 0.5;
         dl->decay = 300;
-        dl->color = palmapnofb[35][35][12]; //qb: dyncol
+        dl->color = palmapnofb[15][15][9]; //qb: dyncol
         S_StartSound (-1, 0, cl_sfx_r_exp3, pos, 1, 1);
         R_AddStain(pos, -30, 45); //qb: ftestain
 

host.c

@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ byte        *alphamap, *alpha50map, *additivemap, *fogmap, *fencemap; //qb: move
 
 cvar_t	r_skyalpha = {"r_skyalpha","0.1", "r_skyalpha[0.0 to 1.0] Sky layer transparency."}; //0.6 Manoel Kasimier - translucent sky
 
-cvar_t  r_palette =  {"r_palette", "s8pal", "r_palette[name] Default palette.", true}; //qb: the default palette to load
+cvar_t  r_palette =  {"r_palette", "palette", "r_palette[name] Default palette.", true}; //qb: the default palette to load
 
 cvar_t	host_framerate = {"host_framerate","0", " host_framerate[0.0 - 0.99] When non-zero, this value will override the calculated framerate."};	// set for slow motion
 cvar_t	host_speeds = {"host_speeds","0", "host_speeds[0/1] Toggle the display of host info."};			// set for running times

model.c

@@ -563,7 +563,7 @@ void Mod_LoadLighting (lump_t *l)  //qb: colored lit load modified from Engoo
                         r = data[k++];
                         g = data[k++];
                         b = data[k++];
-                        normalize = sqrt(r*r + g*g + b*b)+1.0;
+                        normalize = sqrt(r*r + g*g + b*b)*2 +1.0;  //qb: factor for overbright compensation
                         *out++ = BestColor(r*r/normalize, g*g/normalize, b*b/normalize,0,254);
                         //*outvalue++ = (r+g+b)/3;
                     }

r_main.c

@@ -697,7 +697,7 @@ void GrabColormap (void)  //qb: fixed, was a little screwy
 // note: 254 instead of 255 because 255 is the transparent color, and we
 // don't want anything remapping to that
 //
-            *colmap++ = BestColor(red,green,blue, 0, 254);
+            *colmap++ = BestColor(red*2, green*2, blue*2, 0, 254); //qb: compensation factor for lost overbright.
         }
         for ( ; c<256 ; c++)
         {