Simon Bennett (simonb++at++wormald.com.au)
Mon, 5 Jun 1995 11:45:02 +1000 (BEST)
> I recently ran a scene on an Onyx, 8X150MHz, 2 RE2s.
> A net constructed with line primitives in Inventor rendered perfectly.
> The same scene on an Onyx with 2X200MHz and one RE2 doesn't do a good job at
> all.
> I assume this is a hardware/software interaction. Any specific ideas would
> be appreciated.
Do you mean RE2's ? As in separate pipes? Or RM's?? (Raster Managers)
per pipe?
If you're talking RM's.. then the Onyx with only one RM will not be able
to multi-sample at a resolution of 1280x1024 - if you can drop the
resolution to 960x680 then you'll be able to multi-sample again. (You'll
have to start and stop the GFX before you can multi-sample thou -- use
setmon -x to keep the VOF in the EEPROM)
Performer trys to use multi-sampling on RE2 machines... It doesn't seem to
work out whether or not your particular combination of VOF and RM's will
support multi-sampling (which is fair enough)... If you want to use
linesmoothing on an RE2 or VTX it's my experience that you have to enable it
yourself.
Hope that helped.
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Simon Bennett simonb++at++wormald.com.au
Wormald Technology Advanced Systems Engineering Ph: +61 2 981 0611 (x512)
Computer Terms: hardware - the part of a computer system that one can kick
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