I hear all this talk about dithering, but don't know what it is... If someone could tell me what it is then show me a picture dithered and the same picture nondithered, that would be great. Or if there is a post and I just didn't search as hard as I thought...

http://forum.tip.it/viewtopic.php?p=2695779#2695779

 

 

 

read this dithering is a style of shading texture ...... something liek that

 

its like one color is 0 and the other 1

 

u don't do like

 

111111000000

 

111111000000

 

111111000000

 

111111000000

 

 

 

but like

 

1110110101001000

 

1111001010100100

 

1110110101001000

 

1111001010100100

Think of dithering as just a pattern. for example, one of the basic forms of dithering:

 

 

 

10101010

 

01010101

 

10101010

 

01010101

 

 

 

I'll post an example of dithering when I get on my PC (waiting for next class to start atm, first one got out 30mins early).

 

 

 

The point of dithering is to make the change seem more gradual between two colors, and to "fake" the eye into seeing more than one color. For example, a dithered white+black together make's the eye think it is seeing grey (to an extent).

 

 

 

The reason many people dither is because it takes less colors to get a good looking change for realistic shading. A lot of others use it too because it adds a nice look to the image (or at least, I think so.)

Something similiar to this: (The dithered is on the left, the block shading is on the right)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ehh, it's an adapted version of something on the interwebz.

 

Only 2 colours used, you can see it looks like more on the right as it gets smaller.

Ok i'm on my PC now. Here is an example of dithering:

 

 

 

 

 

 

1600x Size:

 

 

 

This shows a few different kind of "dithering" you can do, all depending on how light/dark you want it to get. As you see in the smaller picture it doesn't look like it is just two colors.

 

 

 

Check out http://www.spriteart.com/main.html to learn more about dithering and sprite art in general.

just a note, some times it is NOT good to dither, as it can flaten out the piece instead of blending it, other times it looks bad if you dont dither

just a note, some times it is NOT good to dither, as it can flaten out the piece instead of blending it, other times it looks bad if you dont dither

 

 

 

Such as on trees and textured elments.

 

 

 

Things you probably shouldnt dither are people

just a note, some times it is NOT good to dither, as it can flaten out the piece instead of blending it, other times it looks bad if you dont dither

 

 

 

Yeah i'm not a pixeler (just did that dithering deal when I was bored) so I'm not sure on everything about it. My suggestion is to just try different techniques of shading. :D

There are more varied dithering techniques..

 

 

 

Examples shall follow.

 

 

 

 

Zoomed.

 

 

Actual size.

 

 

 

As you can see, dithering can be more diverse to help blend the colours, create textures, and look hawt :P

 

 

 

Dithering is not usually necessary with two similar colours, unless you wish to create a certain texture, of course.

There are more varied dithering techniques..

 

 

 

Examples shall follow.

 

 

 

 

Zoomed.

 

 

Actual size.

 

 

 

As you can see, dithering can be more diverse to help blend the colours, create textures, and look hawt :P

 

 

 

Dithering is not usually necessary with two similar colours, unless you wish to create a certain texture, of course.

 

 

 

ooh, nice.

 

 

 

Mine was just from a tutorial on spriteart.com, lol. Guess you could say it's the basic forms of dithering.

 

 

 

 

 

gar? z00m

Smapla, that's all well and good, and it is quite smooth, but most pixel-artists tend not to use such similar colours whilst shading :P

 

 

 

Btw, mine was just 2 minutes in MsPaint ;O