[PD] [Gem] smoothing of polygons with ATI cards on OS X

[Max Neupert]

(did not go through the 1st time to the list? because of the images  
as PNG?? now trying JPG..)

Hi list,

i just found out how to change the behaviour of the ATI graphic card  
on OS X. the display looks much better now!

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this is how it looks normally

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this is how it looks with the antialiasing on the gfx card.


the [polygon_smooth] object does not do anything on my system, so i  
installed the ati driver
https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp? 
deptID=894&task=knowledge&folderID=299
were you can change the settings on the ati card for each app  
separately.
selecting the pd.app does not do the trick.
to enable the setting for gem you need to open the package content,  
navigate to Contents/Resources/
then open the ati control panel go to the 3d settings (openGL  
priority) click on the add button, a file chooser window pops up.  
drag the bin directory of the package content into the file chooser  
window. the bin directory will show up in the drop down menue. select  
the pd application in the bin directory.
this only works with the pd++ package of tigital, unfortunately not  
with HCSteiners package.

hope it helps somebody.

m.