Re: [Flightgear-devel] new artificial horizon ugliness

[Cameron M. <li...@to...>]

* cu...@fl... [2001.06.11 14:59]:
> Cameron Moore writes:
> > Hmm...X depth is 16 -- I can guarantee that.  But, now you have me
> > thinking I've got something configured wrong.  8-)
> > 
> > What I don't understand is why the texture turns out looking so bad when
> > seen in FlightGear.   When I open the original RGB file in gimp, I can
> > barely see any trace of the color transitions that create the "ugliness"
> > that it seen in FlightGear.  But in FlightGear, it looks like crap --
> > almost 8bit like you mentioned.
> > 
> > Anyway, I'm running 16bit so GL should be 16bit.  My uneducated guess is
> > that the image gets crapped on by Mesa or the 3dfx drivers.  Anybody
> > care to enlighten me?
> 
> Does this texture have an alpha compent?  If so, then consider that
> OpenGL chops this into 4-4-4-4, so you are only getting 4 bits per
> color channel on a Voodoo card.  Clouds also have this problem where
> they look much nicer in gimp, but band like crazy inside flightgear.
> 
> Yet another reason to upgrade ... :-)
> 
> Curt.

[ With angelic chorus in the background ]
Ahhh...enlightenment.  Thanks, Curt.  And I'm watching that uBid auction
very closely.  ;-)
-- 
Cameron Moore