Setting r_clear to RGB Value Causes Clear Color to be White, Affects Load Screen

[mmillar-bolis]

Describe the Bug: Under default circumstances, r_clear is set to 2 (black). According to documentation and comment output at the console, r_clear has three options:

1. 1 - Purple
2. 2 - Black
3. rgb - Three space-separated integer values, each between 0-255, to specify a custom color.

Setting an RGB value doesn't appear to function correctly. Any RGB value given results in the Clear color turning white.

To Reproduce: Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Set r_clear to an RGB value, either as a command line option, or in autoexec.cfg, or at any point that the console is accessible.
2. Set screen width to a ratio that exceeds 16:9.
3. Load a level and use noclip to peer outside of the level geometry.

Expected Behavior: Setting r_clear to an example value of 192 192 192 should produce a gray background.

Optionally, it would be nice if the Clear value did not affect the borders of the Loading Screen when using a display ratio other than 16:9.

Screenshots:

Desktop:

• OS: Windows 10 x64 (21H2)
• GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060
• Version: Doom BFA 1.3.0 win-x64 Nov 14 2023 19:23:45 (Nightly build 6a150f8)

[mmillar-bolis]

Hey, just letting you know I tried Nightly build fb6fdaf and the RGB values worked perfectly!

If the load screen background is out of scope, just let me know and I'll close the issue out.

[MadDeCoDeR]

How did you achieve that? The loading screen was supposed to fill the whole screen. I suppose it's using the clear color you set it to use. NOTE: the r_clear color sets the clear color for the whole renderer

[mmillar-bolis]

How did you achieve that?

Oddly enough, I haven't changed any settings related to aspect ratio. My display's native resolution is 2560x1080 and the program appears to detect that and automatically set r_vidMode accordingly, as far as I can tell. On my display, the program has only ever displayed loading screens in the above manner.

Out of curiosity, I dumped a loading screen image, arbitrarily picking maps/admin.resources and from it extracting /generated/images/guis/assets/loadscreens/admin#__0200.bimage. The resolution of that loading screen image is 900x480 which is an aspect ratio of 15:8.

In the screenshot above, I was not running the program in fullscreen mode, but with set r_fullscreen 0; set r_windowWidth 2560; set r_windowHeight 1024. The loading screen image is sized up to 1920x1024 which is also a 15:8 aspect ratio.

I'm not sure, but perhaps you have the loading screen images only stretch to fill a vertical bounds but not a horizontal? I'm honestly asking as I have no idea why the loading screen maintains it's native aspect ratio on my display, rather than stretch the image to fill all of the horizontal space.

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The r_clear color sets the clear color for the whole renderer

Okay, so the engine renderer handles drawing the loading screen, that makes sense. Yeah, I assumed as well that it's just using the clear color that I set. If the loading screen background being the clear color is not something that can or should be changed, I have already come up with an easy workaround for myself by just keeping set r_clear 2 and wrapping noclip:

set _noclip_wrapper_on "noclip 1; set r_clear 32 32 32; set noclip_wrapper vstr _noclip_wrapper_off"
set _noclip_wrapper_off "noclip 0; set r_clear 2; set noclip_wrapper vstr _noclip_wrapper_on"
set noclip_wrapper "vstr _noclip_wrapper_on"

Works great; Easy-peasy. :)

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So, are you concerned about the loading screen image not horizontally stretching on 2560x1080 displays, or should I go ahead and close this issue since it's otherwise perfectly resolved?

[MadDeCoDeR]

When it's done check the nightly build of the commit 7cadbd00e3b835f475382d748017032a776a51eb

[mmillar-bolis]

Just tried 7cadbd0! Now that is very cool; everything is nice and dark on the loading screen, but I can still peek outside of levels with noclip. Hey, thanks again!