RE: [Bug-gnubg] Miscellaneous queries

[Ian Shaw]

> 
> > I'm trying to get a nice, solid black dot on my shiny new 
> white dice,
> but
> > all I can get is an anaemic grey thing! I've tried lots of settings
> but I
> > can't get no satisfaction.
> 
> Sounds to me like you have the option "same appearance as 
> checkers" (or
> something like that) on. When setting the colors of the dice, 
> be sure to
> uncheck this option. Also, the default window of the 
> Appearance doesn't
> show the tabs for setting the dice colors, so be sure to drag 
> the sides
> to widen it.
> 
Got it! In order to get the dice a nice, bright, white, I'd set the Diffuse 
slider down to 1.0. This made the pips go greyish rather than black. Increasing 
diffuse to 4.5 still gives white dice, but allows the spots to be a solid 
black. It must be something to do with the way the indented-spot look is drawn. 
GnuBg must be open to all sorts of cheating accusations if it isn't even using 
precision dice, which have smooth spots, of course ;o)

set appearance dice1=#FFFFFF;1.00;4.50;n dot1=#030303 

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Ian