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Technical Q&A QD3D43
Screen Flickering

Q: My application animates moving geometries. Recently, I'm seeing a lot of screen flicker, and faces of geometries which should be behind other faces are showing through. What gives?

A: Sounds like you may have doubleBuffering turned off. Turn it on by calling Q3DrawContext_SetDoubleBufferState.

It could also be a result of having excessively large difference between Hither and Yon. Experiment with greater hither values and smaller yon values to see if the bleed-through goes away.

See Also

  • Page 12-8 of 3D Graphics Programming withQuickDraw 3D

[Apr 08 1996]


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