cl_gamma 0.1 plz

Oh, thanks a lot for posting!

mushi, I get that a lot. Sure some maps are super dark (blame the mappers!) but to me the brightness is alright.
I pursued the idea of using a javascript to increase gamma but could not get it to work. Sorry!

I will publish the result of this once it is worth it, so maps.qw.nu could too benefit from it (to find a good base of maps worth promoting or something).

Do not take rating too seriously. If it looks remotely interesting give it a "yes", if it does not look convincing to you, give it a "no". If enough people contribute it should end up nicely. We'll see.

Spurty: In most cases it's not the map's fault. Screenshots are always darker than the actual map in-game. So unless the map is extremely bright, you'll always have to increase the screenshots' brightness and contrast if you want to use them on a website. It can't be helped here since you took them with a script (understandably), but for proper representational purposes (news posts, map descriptions etc) manual work can't be avoided.

Why would screenshots be darker than in-game?

Can you run the images through some batch conversion? E.g. IrfanView (free) has such feature. I think some Quake engines do not apply your gamma & contrast settings to screenshots. And typically you use higher gamma & contrast than default in the game.

I play with gamma 1. Contrast is only very slightly tweaked. The game looks exactly in-game as its screenshots for me.