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From: scorn@pacbell.net (Rajiv Patel)
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Subject: Re: screen fades?
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 1997 01:40:34 GMT
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On Fri, 7 Nov 1997 21:55:25 -0500, "Pete Rizzuto"
<rizzuto@nospam.home.com> wrote:

>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?

The full screen fades that I've seen on the Playstation work by
sticking a huge semi-transparent sprite (100+100 for fade to white,
and 100-100 for fade to black) and ramp the colour of that sprite from
black, through grey, to white.

raj