ActionScript 3.0 :: Getting Rid Of Horizontal Artefacting With Code-drawn Gradient?
Oct 2, 2011
I'm building a video player for my own use and I'm drawing all graphics with AS3. I've attached a screen shot of this problem, and the code. I'm keeping this brief because I think the solution should be simple but I can't find it after a few days of tinkering. You will see from the attached screen shot, I hope, that the video shell base which is 1000 x 100 pixels is not perfectly smooth. And it would be nice and smooth if I drew the graphic in Flash and just built a simple movie clip. But with the graphic drawn with AS3, there's lots of horizontal artefacting. How do I get rid of all the horizontal artefacting lines in the code gradient? The only solution I can find is adding blur with Tween Lite. Which I've turned off, reducing X & Y blurr to zero. But shouldn't it be possible to get a perfectly smooth gradient WITHOUT dozens of horizontal artefacting lines and without having to use a blur from a Tweener engine? I've tinkered with the hexadecimal colour values and increasing and decreaing the Array to more and less colors. The aretfacting persists.
private function M1 ():void {
// Matrix and shape of video shell and gradient
var type:String = GradientType.LINEAR;
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Code:
function CreateRays():Shape { var ray:Shape = new Shape(); ray.graphics.beginFill(0xFF9900,.5); ray.graphics.lineStyle(1,0xFF9900,.5);
[code]....
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Code: var upColor:uint = 0x9999cc; var downColor:uint = 0x000000;[code].....
