1351
General Anim8or Forum / Re: Anti-Aliasing with Jagged external edge
« on: March 23, 2008, 04:18:10 am »
The AA filter does not affect this kind of request. It's recommended you use bicubic as your AA filter to get the sharpest results, but it performs AA on the entire render regardless of the filter you choose.
Something you can try:
1. Render your image(s) antialiased (preferrably against a black background), save them to file.
2. Render the same images again except only the alpha channel with AA disabled.
3. Use a 2D app to apply the alpha channels to your antialiased renders. Use any color background you need as well. Now you have your jaggies on the outside but AA on the inside.
I'm guessing the engine converts a single color to the transparency, similar to how gifs work (no semi-transparent pixels--bright pink is usually used). If the engine does use semi-transparent pixels (usually the png format), I'd recommend using the same steps, except rendering both channels as antialiased.
Something you can try:
1. Render your image(s) antialiased (preferrably against a black background), save them to file.
2. Render the same images again except only the alpha channel with AA disabled.
3. Use a 2D app to apply the alpha channels to your antialiased renders. Use any color background you need as well. Now you have your jaggies on the outside but AA on the inside.
I'm guessing the engine converts a single color to the transparency, similar to how gifs work (no semi-transparent pixels--bright pink is usually used). If the engine does use semi-transparent pixels (usually the png format), I'd recommend using the same steps, except rendering both channels as antialiased.
). I think this will make it much easier and faster for new and old users to make custom materials. If you extend the attributes to include all the bump map values and textures and such, you could even replace the entire material editor with the shader version using a toggle for ART materials versus scanline materials.