But wouldn't it be the same for moving images as static ones? Static images 
don't get that same washed out look, they have their true colours.

On 2009-11-30, at 10:09 PM, Keith Lang wrote:

> Thanks for the detail. Without 100% understanding your patch, seeing a
> Lighting patch in there makes me wonder if it's related to
> specularity, shininess or ambient light settings. Perhaps the sprite's
> are reflecting back light which is at the same vector as the camera in
> the Lighting patch?
> 
> 
> Keith
> 
> 
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Cobi Druxerman <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Here are a few images of the images and the difference between the washed 
>> out images from the composition and what the image should look like. Also 
>> attached are a couple of images showing the patch setup... Hope they are 
>> visible, I tried to condense everything as much as possible.
>> 
>> Thanks for the help, much appreciated,
>> Cobi
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 2009-11-30, at 5:39 PM, Keith Lang wrote:
>> 
>>> Hmmm. :(
>>> 
>>> Any more information you can share, like screengrabs of the resulting
>>> effect or the patch setup?
>>> 
>>> Keith.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Cobi Druxerman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> I had ensured that the compositing in the rendering patch is set to 'Over' 
>>>> and that the color is white with 100% opacity. If it is set to add the 
>>>> washing out is just more intense and almost none of the image is visible.
>>>> 
>>>> The source over patch is combining zooming images with static images. The 
>>>> interesting thing about this is that the static part of the image is not 
>>>> washed out but the moving part is. I am guessing this has something to do 
>>>> with the issue, but I can't tell what.
>>>> 
>>>> On 2009-11-30, at 5:16 PM, Keith Lang wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> At at guess, you've got compositing in the rendering patch set to 'Add',
>>>>> 
>>>>> Or you've somehow set the color of the rendering patch to something
>>>>> other than white with 100% opacity.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hope that helps,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Keith.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Cobi Druxerman <[email protected]> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi all, I have an interesting question. I'm currently using a couple of 
>>>>>> source over patches and an image transform patch with png's to give an 
>>>>>> image a zooming affect. When I was originally testing on a standalone 
>>>>>> experimental composition everything was working fine, but when I brought 
>>>>>> it into another composition as a macro patch the colours seem to get 
>>>>>> washed out, and I can't figure out why. I tried every variation of 
>>>>>> billboard, sprite, background I can think of, but I keep getting the 
>>>>>> washed image.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Any thoughts on why this happened? Do you think my only option is to run 
>>>>>> the final image through a color control patch?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks,
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