[PD] Gem newbee question/antialiasing of edges on "boxes"

[Cyrille Henry]

Le 27/02/2013 00:42, jamal crawford a écrit :
> hi Cyrille and list
>
> yes i found some configuration tools and maxed them up and yes i can see
> the smoothing now (which still is grainy, but its ok), but it seems like
> polygon_smooth does nothing. i have no nvidia gpu, so no FSAA for me
> (but something called ati radeon express m200 from somewhere 2006 on
> this win box). i guess so far i will be left in a dust (of smoothly
> rendered boxes), until i'll buy an nvidia gpu.
> Can anyone advise an nvidia gpu (or some tech specifications) which will
> be powerfull enough to render the edges as smoothly (cirka) as on that
> picture, i linked.
any nvidia gpu will do antialiasing with no problem.
but if you wish to render 10000 big square, you probably need something a bit better than the cheapest GPU available.

cheers
c

> thank you for very fast reply
> best regs
> ./jc
>
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013, at 01:50 PM, Cyrille Henry wrote:
>> hello,
>> if you use a nvidia GPU, you can set antialiasing on the rendering using
>> a FSAA message to gemwin (see gemwin help), before window creation.
>> if you use nvidia or amd gpu, you can force the antialiasing using
>> drivers configuration tools (if available on your os)
>> whatever gpu you are using, you can set per primitive antialiasing using
>> the polygon_smooth object after a gemhead
>>
>> on my experience, this last option can be slower than the 1st one.
>>
>> cheers
>> c
>