Best looking copper backgrounds on Amiga OCS

Trachu · 25 March 2017, 16:34

Dear Coders

In many your productions you are using copperised background bars to enhance visual effects of your programms/demos/games. Unfortunatelly while I am sure you are great programmers your sence of graphical taste in many cases is much to be desired.
For you I have searched and extracted the best looking copperised backgrounds i could find, so you could use them just as they are, without hurting someone elses eyes.

Absolutelly Brilliant is the background from Brian The lion game, which looks incredibly smooth despite being only in RGB12.

Enjoy
PS. If someone could actually create ready to use copper lists from those background it would probably help others to use them

NorthWay · 25 March 2017, 19:34

Did you see the interview with Mevlut Dinc in "Bedroom to Billions: The Amiga Years" about how they fiddled with the gradient from going (I assume for one of the RGB colours) 13, 14, 15 to instead going 13, 15, 14 and suddenly looking much better?

Trachu · 25 March 2017, 23:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by NorthWay

Did you see the interview with Mevlut Dinc in "Bedroom to Billions: The Amiga Years" about how they fiddled with the gradient from going (I assume for one of the RGB colours) 13, 14, 15 to instead going 13, 15, 14 and suddenly looking much better?

No i did not however if we exclude digitaltoanalog conversion anomalies, such behaviour is explained by psychovisualistics of the human eye. We do not percept different colours in the same way, so some combinations of colours just appear softer than others. In Amiga OCS where you are dealing with limited RGB12 space you just need to find certain combinations which gives better results and this is what i did to help others create better amiga graphics.

Leffmann · 26 March 2017, 11:03

What they did with the gradient in Brian the Lion is pretty clever, just some coarse color changes across the horizon, but it really looks like a bit of jungle in the distance when you're playing.

Frog · 27 March 2017, 13:32

Overdose / DELIGHT is a pleasure to watch.
Hot Dots / COMA own very beautiful plasma too.
and a classic to end : Copper Master / ANGELS

Predseda · 27 March 2017, 13:43

Quote:

Originally Posted by Leffmann

What they did with the gradient in Brian the Lion is pretty clever, just some coarse color changes across the horizon, but it really looks like a bit of jungle in the distance when you're playing.

But Agony is Agony.

Leffmann · 28 March 2017, 09:07

You're thinking of the flickering

yeah.. it's acceptable on CRTs, but Agony on LCDs.

zero · 28 March 2017, 10:27

The flickering is pretty bad some some CRTs too. I had the old Philips monitors and the flicker from the copper background in later levels of Lionheart was awful. Fortunately there was a key that turned it off.

25 March 2017, 16:34	#1
Trachu Registered User Join Date: Dec 2015 Location: Poland Posts: 189	Best looking copper backgrounds on Amiga OCS Dear Coders In many your productions you are using copperised background bars to enhance visual effects of your programms/demos/games. Unfortunatelly while I am sure you are great programmers your sence of graphical taste in many cases is much to be desired. For you I have searched and extracted the best looking copperised backgrounds i could find, so you could use them just as they are, without hurting someone elses eyes. Absolutelly Brilliant is the background from Brian The lion game, which looks incredibly smooth despite being only in RGB12. Enjoy PS. If someone could actually create ready to use copper lists from those background it would probably help others to use them Attached Thumbnails

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25 March 2017, 19:34	#2
NorthWay Registered User Join Date: May 2013 Location: Grimstad / Norway Posts: 841	Did you see the interview with Mevlut Dinc in "Bedroom to Billions: The Amiga Years" about how they fiddled with the gradient from going (I assume for one of the RGB colours) 13, 14, 15 to instead going 13, 15, 14 and suddenly looking much better?

26 March 2017, 11:03	#4
Leffmann Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Sweden Posts: 2,269	What they did with the gradient in Brian the Lion is pretty clever, just some coarse color changes across the horizon, but it really looks like a bit of jungle in the distance when you're playing.

27 March 2017, 13:32	#5
Frog Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: France Posts: 1,385	Overdose / DELIGHT is a pleasure to watch. Hot Dots / COMA own very beautiful plasma too. and a classic to end : Copper Master / ANGELS

28 March 2017, 09:07	#7
Leffmann Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Sweden Posts: 2,269	You're thinking of the flickering yeah.. it's acceptable on CRTs, but Agony on LCDs.

28 March 2017, 10:27	#8
zero Registered User Join Date: Jun 2016 Location: UK Posts: 428	The flickering is pretty bad some some CRTs too. I had the old Philips monitors and the flicker from the copper background in later levels of Lionheart was awful. Fortunately there was a key that turned it off.

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