Away3D Forum Implementing Anti-Aliasing

blastframe, Newbie
Posted: 23 July 2011 09:30 PM Total Posts: 8

Hello,
I have searched about Away3D anti-aliasing and found that the method is a combination of setting the View3D’s antiAlias property and the html’s wmode to direct. I have done both and my renderer is still very aliased.

I attached a screenshot of my Away3D swf running in Chrome, FP11, on OSX 10.6.7 along side my Actionscript file which shows my code.

This is a test link.

My Mac has an ATI Radeon X1600 graphics card, which supports anti-aliasing.

What could be the problem? Thank you!

Richard Olsson, Administrator
Posted: 24 July 2011 08:00 AM Total Posts: 1192 [ # 1 ]

Are you sure that you’re running in direct wmode? Can you try setting antiAlias to 4?

blastframe, Newbie
Posted: 24 July 2011 10:45 AM Total Posts: 8 [ # 2 ]

Hi Richard,
Thank you for the reply. My HTML template in Flash Builder did not have wmode set to direct by default, so I changed that so all of my swfobjects would have the wmode param set to ‘direct.’ I’ve set the wmode in three places (see image attached) and changed the anti-aliasing to 4 as you suggested. Still not getting the anti-aliasing. I added AwayStats to verify the GPU is rendering the view. Any other ideas? Thanks.

Richard Olsson, Administrator
Posted: 24 July 2011 10:46 AM Total Posts: 1192 [ # 3 ]

And did it work?

blastframe, Newbie
Posted: 24 July 2011 10:47 AM Total Posts: 8 [ # 4 ]

Hahahaha! Man, you’re quick! I was previewing the reply and it posted prematurely. Need to get that looked at

I edited the previous post to say everything I wanted to say.

No, it didn’t work. :-( I updated the link I mentioned in the first post if you’d like to have a look.

Mr Margaret Scratcher, Sr. Member
Posted: 26 July 2011 01:51 AM Total Posts: 344 [ # 5 ]

There is (or was) a bug in the away stats box that would report HW even though software rendering was being done…

Silly question but you are opening up the html in a browser and not the swf in a browser, right?

blastframe, Newbie
Posted: 26 July 2011 07:06 AM Total Posts: 8 [ # 6 ]

Hi and thank you for the reply.

Yes, I do understand there is not a FP11 stand-alone and all Molehill examples must be viewed in an HTML wrapper with wmode set to direct. My compiler argument contains -swf-version=13, minimum player version is set to 11.0.0, and the playerglobal.swc has been changed to the one from the FP11 Beta page.

Your post about the HW-rendering bug makes me think I cannot view HW-accelerated content on my machine. I have an old Macbook Pro from 2006 which has an ATI Radeon X1600 graphics card. I haven’t been able to find any driver updates for it anywhere (maybe there are none). The GPU supposedly supports OpenGL 2.0, but I’m not seeing any of the cool Molehill features.

Richard Olsson, Administrator
Posted: 26 July 2011 07:52 AM Total Posts: 1192 [ # 7 ]

That could indeed be the case. Make sure you have the latest version of Away3D from GitHub, as the bug should have been fixed in more recent revisions.

Mr Margaret Scratcher, Sr. Member
Posted: 26 July 2011 12:05 PM Total Posts: 344 [ # 8 ]

Easiest way to check I guess is to see if anyone esles projects are being anti aliased is have a look at stuff that is definitely working.

http://www.margaretscratcher.co.uk/VirtualTour/index.html

This is a very simple scene but should be anti aliased….

If that works as you’d expect then it must be something you’re doing wrong.

Implementing Anti-Aliasing Software: Away3D 4.x

blastframe, Newbie Posted: 23 July 2011 09:30 PM Total Posts: 8 Hello, I have searched about Away3D anti-aliasing and found that the method is a combination of setting the View3D’s antiAlias property and the html’s wmode to direct. I have done both and my renderer is still very aliased. I attached a screenshot of my Away3D swf running in Chrome, FP11, on OSX 10.6.7 along side my Actionscript file which shows my code. This is a test link. My Mac has an ATI Radeon X1600 graphics card, which supports anti-aliasing. What could be the problem? Thank you!
Richard Olsson, Administrator Posted: 24 July 2011 08:00 AM Total Posts: 1192 [ # 1 ] Are you sure that you’re running in direct wmode? Can you try setting antiAlias to 4?
blastframe, Newbie Posted: 24 July 2011 10:45 AM Total Posts: 8 [ # 2 ] Hi Richard, Thank you for the reply. My HTML template in Flash Builder did not have wmode set to direct by default, so I changed that so all of my swfobjects would have the wmode param set to ‘direct.’ I’ve set the wmode in three places (see image attached) and changed the anti-aliasing to 4 as you suggested. Still not getting the anti-aliasing. I added AwayStats to verify the GPU is rendering the view. Any other ideas? Thanks.
Richard Olsson, Administrator Posted: 24 July 2011 10:46 AM Total Posts: 1192 [ # 3 ] And did it work?
blastframe, Newbie Posted: 24 July 2011 10:47 AM Total Posts: 8 [ # 4 ] Hahahaha! Man, you’re quick! I was previewing the reply and it posted prematurely. Need to get that looked at I edited the previous post to say everything I wanted to say. No, it didn’t work. :-( I updated the link I mentioned in the first post if you’d like to have a look.
Mr Margaret Scratcher, Sr. Member Posted: 26 July 2011 01:51 AM Total Posts: 344 [ # 5 ] There is (or was) a bug in the away stats box that would report HW even though software rendering was being done… Silly question but you are opening up the html in a browser and not the swf in a browser, right?
blastframe, Newbie Posted: 26 July 2011 07:06 AM Total Posts: 8 [ # 6 ] Hi and thank you for the reply. Yes, I do understand there is not a FP11 stand-alone and all Molehill examples must be viewed in an HTML wrapper with wmode set to direct. My compiler argument contains -swf-version=13, minimum player version is set to 11.0.0, and the playerglobal.swc has been changed to the one from the FP11 Beta page. Your post about the HW-rendering bug makes me think I cannot view HW-accelerated content on my machine. I have an old Macbook Pro from 2006 which has an ATI Radeon X1600 graphics card. I haven’t been able to find any driver updates for it anywhere (maybe there are none). The GPU supposedly supports OpenGL 2.0, but I’m not seeing any of the cool Molehill features.
Richard Olsson, Administrator Posted: 26 July 2011 07:52 AM Total Posts: 1192 [ # 7 ] That could indeed be the case. Make sure you have the latest version of Away3D from GitHub, as the bug should have been fixed in more recent revisions.
Mr Margaret Scratcher, Sr. Member Posted: 26 July 2011 12:05 PM Total Posts: 344 [ # 8 ] Easiest way to check I guess is to see if anyone esles projects are being anti aliased is have a look at stuff that is definitely working. http://www.margaretscratcher.co.uk/VirtualTour/index.html This is a very simple scene but should be anti aliased…. If that works as you’d expect then it must be something you’re doing wrong.

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