Level Editor Brightness Issue

[Roenlond]

Whenever I use the level editor, everything is brighter when I'm not focused on the level editor window itself. If I close the editor, the issue stays. Everything is much brighter until I focus on the level editor window again.

It is quite annoying, anybody got a solution/idea for it?

[Tanshaydar]

Close the Ambient Light and Global Point light from A and P at the bottom of the editor.

[Roenlond]

The issue is not in the level editor itself, but rather it causes issues everywhere else. For example, any site which may have a gray background would after running the level editor be almost white.

[plutomaniac]

have you updated your graphics card drivers? Maybe they are old...

[Roenlond]

They were updated quite recently, but maybe there is a new update out. I'll check. I fixed the problem by using f.lux and then disabling it. It only works after the fact though so it's no permanent fix. I'll look at drivers.

[plutomaniac]

I don't understand what you did to fix it. Can you explain it? It might help people with the same issue in the future.

[Roenlond]

I used f.lux - http://stereopsis.com/flux/ - it's a program that darkens your screen when the sun is down so that the screen isn't so bright. I enabled it, thus darkening the screen, and then disabled it. That way I was back to before using the level editor.

[plutomaniac]

of course that could cause problems. Good for you figuring it out. Have fun...

[Roenlond]

It didn't cause the problem as I didn't even have it installed, just fixed it

[plutomaniac]

ah, ok. So it may be something else. Probably this has to do with drivers and stuff or monitor settings. No way an outsider would know.