Sky Color Banding

[lowenz]

Yeah, it's terrible

There's no way in future updates to reduce it?

 

[Sotha]

is that a custom made sky texture? Could that come from compression?

[nbohr1more]

I think this is a precision issue. When you are so close to black you start to need more precision to reduce banding. One workaround would might be to dither the gradients in the source image. Is fog in the affect map? Do you have post processing enabled? Both can cause more banding artifacts. Some dither in the renderer or shaders would help there too.

[motorsep]

You need 64bit HDR renderer with dither post process, to have no banding. Otherwise there is no way around that for DXT5 DDS images. 24bit TGA should have no banding.

[lowenz]

is that a custom made sky texture? Could that come from compression?

It comes from Bikerdude's St. Albans, start location.

[SteveL]

Is that banding really just from a color gradient, or is it a particle effect? It looks like the moon glare particle effect from the starry night prefab skybox, which does look pretty bad if you hide the moon. I've never noticed banding that bad purely from a blackish gradient.

[Lux]

Or, just use a CRT. They render gradients with no banding. I think this is an LCD issue. (they all do it unless you're using a 10bit panel though I've not seen one of those to know if they do it or not too).

Edited May 29, 2014 by Lux

[rich_is_bored]

Check the material shader for the keyword forceHighQuality. If it's missing, add it.