How do we force darkness on people without shaders?

[QuadStorm]

Well is there any client that could counteract negative lights?

someone could probably modify their shaders to intentionally leave out point lights
anyways i'm pretty sure someone could just change their color and brightness settings like in nvidia's control panel to brighten up dark scenes

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[Lord Tony®]

Who created reshade? Maybe they can make something that could counter this.

[EcstaticEggplant]

Who created reshade? Maybe they can make something that could counter this.

that wouldnt force darkness, it would just make it optional

[Shift Kitty]

Who created reshade? Maybe they can make something that could counter this.

Reshade isn't even a BL specific thing, I don't even think the person who created it even knows about Blockland.

[Pecon]

Reshade essentially works on the principal of dll injection, except you don't /actually/ have to inject it because openGL will read the dll automatically for some reason. So you could theoretically compare it to using something like blhack-- except that 99% of the time using Reshade probably isn't being done to intentionally cheat something. Nothing can really be done about this, and if Badspot were interested in preventing dll injection he would have already done it while the blhack discussion was still hot.

[Demian]

Who created reshade? Maybe they can make something that could counter this.

ReShade is just one 3rd party shader program. Even if you found a way to prevent people from using it, there are others.

I just did some more tests on my own. The only way to prevent people from seeing in the dark with 3rd party shaders is to make everything literally (0, 0, 0) RGB black. (I.e. make shadow color black and move the sun below the ground.) Because black is black and making black brighter is pointless when everything is black. But if everything is black then nobody can obviously see anything without using lights, which defeats the purpose of being stealthy. If anything in the scene is not (0, 0, 0) black, I can bring out even a 1 point color variation so the difference is like day and night. In other words, there is nothing you can do. If people want to cheat by seeing in the dark, they can.

[Ladle]

cheaters gonna cheat

[The Resonte!]

at least you can have a blind person simulator

[Lord Tony®]

at least you can have a blind person simulator

Yeah but at least a blind person can physically feel his way around a wall.

[TableSalt]

everyone can support minimum.

I can't.

[Lord Tony®]

I can't.

What is your specs?

[Ladle]

I can't.

well aren't you something

[Lord Tony®]

My windows XP that had a Radeon x1950 pro and about 512mb of RAM couldn't support minimum either. Let alone anything higher than 20,000 bricks.

That computer eventually overheated and died.

[blockman01]

The shader "off" option needs to just be taken out

That's just as absurd as giving people free stuff so they CAN run shaders

[Rally]

Blockland's minimum requirements should be "a computer worth more than $2". Then we can remove the OFF setting.