clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Am 20.05.2012 00:43, schrieb mone:
>
> > Sometimes I want meshes too look a little more rough and get rid of some banding
> > artifacts. So I used to put "crand" in my finish statements in this case. But if
> > I use crand in Version 3.7 it has no effect anymore. Maybe it does not work in
> > 3.7 because it was considered obsolete and taken out?
>
> What exactly do you mean with "banding artifacts"? Some mesh-specific
> stuff, or the banding that can occur when you have "slow" color
> transitions in the image (such as the sky)?
>


Yes, I meant the banding with slow color transitions.


> For the latter, 3.7's "Dither=on" or "+th" works like a charm.

Thanks for the tip. I will keep "Dither" in mind and give it a try with 3.7.

Best wishes,

Simone

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Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:

> Actually, that crand is still disabled is a bug. I had disabled it early on
> during 3.7 development (years ago) and it is still marked as a TODO in the
> code. I have opened a bug report for it. It should get fixed in final 3.7.
>
>      Thorsten, POV-Team

Thanks. That's great news. I thought it might have been taken out on purpose
because in the help file it said that it was not physically correct or
something. But it was easy to use so I got used to it :).

Best wishes,

Simone

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