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

[Max Neupert]

interesting.
doing a short test lets me believe that it still looks better with  
the ATI cotrol-panel than with sending [FSAA 4( to gemwin.
this feature should be in the help files of gemwin and polygon_smooth.

m.

Am 07.11.2005 um 00:36 schrieb 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..)
>>
>> 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.
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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.
>>
>> hope it helps somebody.
>>
>> m.
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