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- From: grusin@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (GRUSIN MICHAEL)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Anyone else find this Imagine bug?
- Date: 27 Jan 1996 17:48:07 GMT
- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
- Distribution: usa
- Message-ID: <4edogn$b1q@peabody.colorado.edu>
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-
-
- I've found a fairly obvious bug in Imagine and wanted to see if anyone
- else noticed it or (more to the point) has a fix for it:
-
- In the globals you can set up quick and dirty "sky" settings,
- specifically +zenith (top) color, -zenith (bottom) color, horizon
- color, and starfield density. (Most people have probably constructed
- their own sky objects in the past, which may be why this bug wasn't
- noticed before, but the stars in 4.0 are actually pretty nice).
-
- Let's say you're rendering a UFO coming down out of the night sky; the
- zenith is black, the horizon is dark blue (for twilight), and there
- are a few stars. You start with the camera pointed up, then tilt down
- to the horizon following the UFO.
-
- If you do this, you'll notice that the stars animate correctly, but
- the COLORS of the sky are flipped top to bottom. If you look at the
- midpoint frame (camera at 45 degrees), you would expect the top of the
- frame to be dark (from the zenith color) and the bottom of the frame
- to be light (from the horizon color), but it renders as the OPPOSITE.
- If you look at the animation, it looks like the stars are sliding in
- one direction (correctly), but the colors are sliding in the opposite
- direction. It looks very strange, to say the least. (I spent many
- hours trying to figure out if I had turned my camera inside out or
- something).
-
- I found this bug in versions 4.0 AND 3.3, but 2.0 works correctly. No
- other settings (scanline/trace, different resolutions, settings or
- colors) seemed to do anything to fix it; there's just a sign error in
- the color renderer. I called Impulse, but they "hadn't heard of that
- before" and "didn't have any fix" and suggested that I submit a
- written report (which I'm doing), but I'm surprised that such an
- obvious bug got into two versions of the software without anyone
- noticing it... or maybe Imagine's user base is even smaller than I
- thought! =)
-
-
- -Mike (grusin@rintintin.colorado.edu)
-