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From: hrlaser@sactoh0.UUCP (Harv R. Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: SA4D/Silver --> Dynamic?
Summary: Get RGBExchange
Message-ID: <2441@sactoh0.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jan 90 19:49:43 GMT
References: <90017.003919R38@PSUVM.BITNET>
Organization: Sacramento Public Access, Ca. USA
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In article <90017.003919R38@PSUVM.BITNET>, R38@PSUVM.BITNET writes:
> Sound interesting?  Has anyone done this?  Is there anyone willing to try
> it?
> I would love to render 24 bit files and display them in Dynamic Hires
> (ok, not quite 16 mil colors, but no ham junk!)
> Please E-Mail me!
> 
> Marc Rifkin... R38@PSUVM
> 814-867-4837

Easily done, Marc.  Just get a copy of Troy Barlow's nifty
program RGBExchange.  We have it up on Plink and it should be on
better BBSes everywhere. 

Render with Sculpt or Silver in 24bit modes, pass the saved
files thru RGBExchange using the appropriate conversion module(s)
that come with the program, churn out DV21 format file and suck
it into DigiView 4.0, select one of the "Dynamic" modes and
there you are. I've made bunches of these this way.  

Problem with Sculpt's output is that it seems to completely turn
off all dithering when rendering out 24bit RGB files so unless
your lamp placement is perfect you'll get tons of 'banding'
in the Dynamic picture, although it'll be sharp as a razor.
Turbo Silver SV's 24 bit output IS nicely dithered and in fact
the Dynamic conversions of it don't really look much better
than the HAM output from Silver itself.


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