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From: "Pete Rizzuto" <rizzuto@nospam.home.com>
Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.programming.2d_graphics
Subject: Re: screen fades?
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 21:55:25 -0500
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>
>Does it? I use the brightness as well, and it's not great. I'm sure I could
get
>smoother fades. While the brightness thing is easy, I notice the gradation
of
>the fades.
>

well, when i drop the brightness by 4 each frame, it seems pretty smooth.
when i dropped it by 1 each frame it was a bit jerky.

>A better way would be to have the CLUT in memory, then upload it every
frame
>(you'd have to have some sort of triple CLUT buffering scheme), and adjust
>the CLUT directly. This would give you a smoother fade, but it's quite a
bit
>more work.

how do the 'pros' do it?  it's not clear to me why updating the clut each
frame would look any different...  has anyone tried both methods?

pete