Anti Aliasing Question.

Jale

Jale

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Since I got a new video card (Radeon X1600) I've been interested in the new features, including Anti Aliasing filtering, but I see not everything is anti aliased (sprites). Look at the pic above to see what I'm talking about:

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I want to know if there's a way to apply anti aliasing filter into sprites or textures with alpha channels. If there's no way, is that normal?
 
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Zach

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Probably not, unless you replace it with a higher resolution texture. It may simply be low texture. AA is nice, but it is power hungry and cannot always fix everything.
 
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Zach

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Only way to be sure is to look at the exact same spot with AA turned off and blow it up, or look for a plain visual difference. Then you'll know for sure if you simply need to get a higher resolution texture. But it seems clearly obvious it's a texture issue, as you clearly have anti-aliased imaging going on, while other things still look pixelated like a blown up image, etc.. (Mario lives remaining, Lakitu camera, etc)
 
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Jale

Jale

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I've done a small research and I see it's a normal thing; sprites cannot be anti-aliased, only 3D geometry.
 
Jale

Jale

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The reason for this bump:

This could interest the pixel whores like me. To enable anti-aliasing on sprites, you must enable adaptive anti-aliasing. The impact on performance is very high, so it must be used with fast graphics cards.
 
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TheCreator

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How do you do that, I enabled it through catalyst and it didn't work, or does it need another plugin. BTW im using a radoen 9600 pro. Anti-aliasing works on solid objects still.
 
Jale

Jale

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Sometimes it doesn't work. I don't know what's causing this, maybe it's the Catalyst driver.
 
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