How to remove the gradients?

What does one need to do to remove the gradients from RC 1.20?

What are gradients?

"Aliasing" is the stair step effect that occurs on computer screens because the pixels are big enough to see. So diagonal edges appear to have discrete steps. Graphics cards and software can perform an operation called "Anti-aliasing", (AA) which is to take pixels on an edge where colors change, and use a blended mix of color from the two sides of the edge, instead of just using one or the other.

Your eye perceives this blending of colors as a smoother edge. Its not really, the pixels are still the same size, but your eyes and brain work that way.

In First Look / Dazzle / version 1.20.0, there is an option to turn on anti-aliasing. Its in Edit Menu > Preferences > Graphics Tab > Hardware Options button.

Since each pixel has to be compared to the ones around it, it makes the graphics card do more work. So the options there are off (no comparing of neighbors), and two, four, etc neighbors compared. The more neighbors you compare to , the more work for the graphics card, and the slower your frames per second (fps) will get.

So you need to decide the best balance of AA settings vs frame rate for your hardware and needs. If you are taking nice photos, than you might want to crank up the AA temporarily, and if you are in a vehicle, then you might want to turn it down, etc.

DRN

DanielRavenNest, maybe you put your reply in the wrong thread. I said nothing that has to do with anti-aliasing.

Gradients is used to refer to shading, to backgrounds on interface elements that are shaded.

Text on a uniform colored background with sufficient contral between the foreground and background colors is easy to read.

Image that you have black text on a background that shades uniformly from white at the top to black at the bottom. The part near the bottom will unreadable because the text foreground and background colors match exactly.

Most gradients used in an interface are more subtle than that, but that illustrates the idea.

Just right click anything on rc1.20 , you will see the pie menu is now barly readable unless youre running a low resolution i guess, i sure have a hard time seeing whats on it now.

I have yet to find anyone who really DOES like Dazzle that uses it for more than just goofing off. (yes I know they are around the forums here and there). I don't like it and I pretty much use SL for "just goofing off," hehe.

So with this in mind, unless I am missing something, why did LL implement this in the first place? They'd have saved a lot of backlash...

I really don't see the problem with Dazzle now. At first it was brightly coloured and slightly distracting to me, ubt now after a few days I'm used to it, and have absolutely no complaints. I can read everything perfectly fine, I'm not distracted any more, I like the style in general really..

Not sure what the complaints are about now =/

I guess to get feedback perhaps, seing they went to the trouble of making it, they can always easily ship the next version with a more subtle skin.
I don't mind the colours , and Joystic feature is great, and most of the other little Dazzle extras seem ok, ultimately if it is skinable people might accept it better I imagine.

Yeah.... Dazzle is fine for me.................. now I've had my retinas burnt like Ridick....

Dazzle does suggest a 'what you get is what you see' type of meaning. I'm old school, a 'window' should be seen but not heard, Dazzle comes under the heading of.... 'I don't like the picture, but love the frame NOT' heading. Guess Mac users havn't noticed it.