Gradient Problem

JustMe74

I'm having an issue with the gradiants on most of my backgrounds showing severe "banding". I did a search on the forums and found two solutions:

1). Add noise to the image
2). Change one pixel so it is 1% transparent

I tried #2 first. No change.
#1 does seem to work, but my 80k PNG is now 1 MB. With over 60 of these, that's not going to be an acceptable solution.

Is there any other workaround for this bug?

Rob2

yep... 2) still works 100%

http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/comment/266495/#Comment_266495

JustMe74

@tshirtbooth -
Is this a GS bug or an iOS issue? Or do we know?

RP

Yeah it sucks dude, I had to add noise between 4% and 5% on some of my backgrounds. Does the trick, but to the critical eye it drives me crazy.

MarkOnTheIron

The transparent trick should work. I tested in a couple of games and I had no banding at all.

Instead of changing 1 px to 1% transparent try to delete that pixel completely and if that doesn't work try to delete more than 1 px.

JustMe74

Yes, I read through that thread. However, it doesn't work on these particular images.

JustMe74

Actually I stand corrected. I followed the directions from Tynan EXACTLY and it worked!

Rob2

great

simo103

For such a short while Tynan's star shone so brightly ... Tynan posted some unique and exquisite concepts/vision and insight. Hope one day the ban can be lifted.

simo103

@SaladStraightShooter ... understood .. wasn't questioning the validity of the ban just lamenting the loss of his talents ...

JustMe74

@SaladStraightShooter -
Back on topic, is there anything that GS can do to make this bug go away without these workarounds?

JustMe74

Thank you.