Is it just me or is the forum slow today :-( I was sending my post befor Jerrot's reaction.
Yes, it seems to become slower daily... but not only the forum, the whole server reacts very slowly, it took me 15 minutes to send the last post...
I think it would be very suitable for the actors' shading, very easy to create gradients. Of course, it would be optional; the regions have other important tasks. For example, you can easily turn them on/off, change their color etc. Something that would be impossible with the color-map image.
Yes, that's what I was thinking about (thinking of that blinking light in the demo).
Ok, you're right, for a global shading it's great!
Anyway it would be helpful if the regions understood gradients, too. Think of some item in the scene, that drops a large shadow - and you take this item or it moves or whatever.
Removing the shadow can only work with regions here.