The situation was even worse when Valve added custom skins players could buy. Some of those skins blended in with their background a little too well. Their init

The situation was even worse when Valve added custom skins players could buy. Some of those skins blended in with their background a little too well. Their initial "solution" was to add more lights to the maps to brighten them up, but that approach is obviously not great so they added a system to boost player model contrast dynamically against the environment [1]. [1] https://imgur.com/gallery/P37nKBs#o3QNSgs https://imgur.com/gallery/P37nKBs#o3QNSgs