[Liberator]

Originally posted by PhReAk
im not going to pick out the number of things wrong with that post

Enlighten me, I wish to know.

I have been corrected on the render passes, but the AA calculations are correct if you change the base render passes.  AFAIK, 4x Anti-Aliasing is a result of 4 slightly different images being averaged together to eliminate the jaggies that result from drawing in pixels.

[Bobboau]

eh, AA I belive (though I may be wrong as I havvn't realy looked into it's implementation) is just a larger resolution being downsized, either that or they have some sort of per pixel thingy going on

[ShadowDrakken]

no clue how software AA is done, but it's stupid to use software AA anyway... hardware AA isn't done with an extra pass normally however, it's done mathematically as each polygon is rendered, except full screen AA, which is done as a simple blur filter before sending the frame to the screen
(btw, yes I know that's over-simplified, it's not just a "blur filter" but a mathematical smoothing)

[Flipside]

AFAIK it is as Bobb says, the whole screen is rendered up at double size (for 2x AA) and then condensed down to the correct size, thus eliminating/reducing the hard edges that can appear.

There is a comparative AA technique in Lightwave etc, which compares the pixels with the ones surrounding it, but that would take far too long for gaming needs

[Falcon]

I tried search for overexposure effects but no luck in finding a dl

[DaBrain]

There never was an DL.
Only a picture in the internals.

[Fineus]

And those links are broken unfortunately...

[Turambar]

its like some kind of conspiracy...

[WMCoolmon]

Originally posted by DaBrain
There never was an DL.
Only a picture in the internals.

Actually there was a build and source released, but the links to those are broken, as is the site they were on.

[Turambar]

its hard-drive scouring time people!

too bad i wasnt around back when this came out, otherwise i'd probably have it

[ShadowDrakken]

Falcon: that's cause as I've said repeatedly, that's not what overexposure is that is light blooming... so of course you won't find it as overexposure =-_-=;

[Nico]

That's neither, that's stupid glow, but the SCP dudes screw naming conventions from the begining

[Setekh]

Originally posted by Bobboau
he seems to have unapeared

I just realised how much my ability to interpret the English language has improved through my knowing you, Bob.

[Nico]

Same goes for me, which is in my case rather funny