Re: Antialiasing not working on our IR?

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Angus Dorbie (dorbie++at++multipass.engr.sgi.com)
Thu, 7 Aug 1997 13:53:50 -0700


Are you compiling an opengl version of perfly?

Try:

make ogldso

Cheers,Angus.

On Aug 7, 11:35am, Pete Willemsen wrote:
> Subject: Antialiasing not working on our IR?
> My question involves antialiasing on an Onyx IR with one RM-6. I
> cannot seem to get antialiasing to work. Ugh... this should be simple
> so I must not be doing something correctly.
>
> Here's the situation:
>
> The perfy demo in /usr/sbin/perfly_ogl (that came compiled) does
> antialiasing wonderfully. I can easily see the difference when I
> toggle whether antialiasing is on or off in the GUI.
>
> However, when I tried to compile the perfly source myself (I made no
> changes to the source), antialiasing did NOT work. The models looked
> the same (with jaggies) whether antialiasing was on or off.
>
> Along with all of this, in a very simple app that basically reads in a
> flight file and displays it, I cannot get antialiasing to work. I am
> using the call
>
> pfAntialias( PFAA_ON );
>
> to turn antialiasing on. Is there something else that I need to do?
>

Yes, you need to ensure you have a visual which has multisamples.
With iR this is easily possible with 1RM.

Cheers,Angus.
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