I made a beautiful skybox using terragen and it was flawless. I had assigned the images to 6 planes in DBPro and played with the distances to get everything perfect. Then on the computer at work, i loaded DBPro and ran it and i could see the seams. I finally checked my desktop color depth and noticed that it was 16 bit and not 32 bit like at home. I have a crappy video card at work and if i set to 32 bit then the seams would go away but wings3d was slow as hell. So i went back to 16 bit and ran the app in exclusive mode 800x600x32 and it worked perfect. I realize now that it's a zdepth problem. It seems that Darkbasic will use a 16 bit zbuffer if the color depth is set to 16 bit. And it uses a 32 bit zbuffer for a 32 bit color depth.
In 16 bit mode, i moved the planes in until the seams went away. But the picture didn't line up at all. So , bottom line is, if you want a good skybox, make sure your desktop is set to 32 bit color or that you run dbpro projects in exclusive mode with 32 bit depth.
Odd thing is, color depth should have nothing to do with zdepth calculations.....but I guess it's safe to say if someone is running at 16 bit color then they don't have the graphics power to compute a 32 bit zdepth. well mostly.....
Anyway, just wanted to tell everyone. You may think you have the worlds best looking demo or game until you send it to someone running at 16 bit color. just a heads up
