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Hi…
I need to make a pretty simple curve (top left corner of a 19pix rounded rectangle). The issue at hand is that the side that would be *outside* the rectangle can *not* be alpha-blended (since it will be used for skinning an application). Its sort of a dark blue rounded rectangle on a gradiented background. I didn’t want any "jaggies", so I spent the better part of the evening tweaking the outside side pixel-by-pixel to get it smooth. Low-and-behold it turned out as smooth as a babys bottom. I felt pleased. A few minutes later I get an angry call saying its jagged as hell. Ooops… forgot to test it on different backgrounds!
How come on about half the backgrounds I test with it looks great, and on the other half it looks horrible? Seems like its mostly the dark colors that have problems even though some of the light colors do as well.
I need to make a pretty simple curve (top left corner of a 19pix rounded rectangle). The issue at hand is that the side that would be *outside* the rectangle can *not* be alpha-blended (since it will be used for skinning an application). Its sort of a dark blue rounded rectangle on a gradiented background. I didn’t want any "jaggies", so I spent the better part of the evening tweaking the outside side pixel-by-pixel to get it smooth. Low-and-behold it turned out as smooth as a babys bottom. I felt pleased. A few minutes later I get an angry call saying its jagged as hell. Ooops… forgot to test it on different backgrounds!
How come on about half the backgrounds I test with it looks great, and on the other half it looks horrible? Seems like its mostly the dark colors that have problems even though some of the light colors do as well.
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