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Hi!
I've been toying with this idea to use the video overlay feature
as an efficient anti alias method. Is this doable ?
Here is how it would work :
set the display to some resolution ( higher is better )
render your picture ( at a lower , same or higher resolution than the
display )
use the overlay to scale the picture to the physical screen
cards with good scaling ( filtering etc. ) would make a nice
smoothed picture , right ?
With some luck you could get 3D FSAA on cards that don't support
it natively.
Examples of use :
- text anti-alias :
render the text at lower resolution, then scale it up
to some higher resolution, and get AA filtering for "free"
- 3D FSAA : render at higher resolution, scale down to get FSAA
( using the same resolution ( 1:1 scaling ) might give something
useful too ? )
Opinions ?
Regards,
stein ( David Balazic )
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