Hey Conitec,

Could you please consider implementing an engine option to toggle Anti-Aliasing. This would be very beneficial to me and other users. I remember this feature being asked for in the past.

Thanks,

Matt Coles

Yes I would like this too, is it possible to add a var like we used to have so our 3D cards know it should switch anti-aliasing on? I know it's possible to switch anti-aliasing on manually in the graphics card options, but I doubt every customer (I mean the potential gamers, not dev. teams) will know how to do this.

Cheers

The problem is that antialiasing is switched on with initializing d3d. This is done before any line of c-script is executed. The only way is to set aliasing with a parameter or ask conitec to implement a startup configuration file. You can then change antialiasing but need to restart the game (a lot of top notch games do that like Doom3, Far Cry, etc.)

Well there is no reason A6 cant recreate the D3D device...

Restarting the game isn't that painful, because at the moment you'd need to restart anyway when you find out there's no ingame option to switch on anti-aliasing.

And then I'm assuming they know they can switch anti-aliasing on at their graphics card options, they might aswell just dump the game because they feel tricked (most of my screenshots are taken with anti-aliasing on).

Cheers

You cannot expect that the player (kids or grandma's) have to change anti-aliasing in the graphic cards options. That is not a good option.

Anti aliasing is barely noticablee anyway, who cares about it?

For those using low resolutions (like 800x600 instead of 1280x960), the pixels are bigger and using anti-aliasing would make these "large" pixels stick out less. A 2x anti-aliasing for 800x600 would simulate the quality as if running at 1600x1200. If running at high resolution (like 1920x1440), there is little sense in using anti-aliasing as the pixels would be very small as it is, but some would still prefer it because it enhances the quality of the scene. In some cases, I'd probably even use a 4x anti-aliasing method which is extremely fine, right next to the limit of the human eye at the highest of resolutions.

I would support having anti-aliasing and it can be configured through the command line like this:

-aa 2

for a 2x anti-aliasing effect.