CompuServe Messages

<<Why are large, solid areas of color (for instance a solid rendering background) dithered in patchy areas and with different patterns for different frames of a dithered flic.>> Firstly the all the colours for all the frames of the animation amount to 256. So this doesn't leave you with many colours for the details. The problem you mentioned can either be caused by an incorrect palette or the simple fact that you'll always get banding when using such a small palette for a gradient such as you described. <<To demonstrate, try rendering a simple animation over a solid background with dither on. Once rendered, you'll notice that in odd angular areas, the solid color is dithered and "creeps" from frame to frame, even though there is no real motion in the solid color.>> As Gary mentioned a few days ago the dithering uses a little bit of random that no two frames will dither the same. This normally isn't a problem since normally everything is moving in an animation. DaviD "just a spoon full of randomness makes the medicine go down" GouID