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

[chris clepper]

Sending a 'FSAA $1' message to the gemwin before creating it will
enable multi-sampling as well.  I usually use a value of 4, but some
cards will do up to 16x I think.

cgc

On 11/6/05, Max Neupert <abonnements at revolwear.com> wrote:
> (did not go through the 1st time to the list? because of the images
> as PNG?? now trying JPG..)
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> Hi list,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> hope it helps somebody.
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> m.
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