> From: "Curtis L. Olson" > > Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: > > >The new 3D clouds are great! However, on the ground, I noticed the clouds > >seem a bit grainy. They are also darker than they should be. On closer > >observation, I see this: > >http://www.students.yorku.ca/~ampere/fgfs-screen-006.jpg > > > >Does anybody know I am seeing these artifacts? Would my use of 16-bits > >depth > >be one of the contributions > > > > > > Yes, the clouds look a lot nicer in 24 bit depth. 16bit depth only > gives you 4 bits each for RGB and A so you see a *lot* of banding with > alpha textures. > > They look a lot nicer in 24bit depth, there are some issues, but I > assume this is still a work in progress so I'll wait a bit longer before > I start complaining. >
It would be possible to improve that though by reducing the number of shades and doing appropriate dithering. Best, Jim _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
