Hey all,
There’s lots of different types of antialiasing that can be enabled (lines, polygons, etc). Is there a single function I can call (or argument to pass to glEnable) to turn on all of possible options? I have a GeForce3 and, while that isn’t the top of the line anymore, the game I’m writing is hardly taxing my video card…
In fact, there are mainly 2 differents ways to do antialiasing in OpenGL. And you can not use both at the same time.
I found an old document about it :
http://www.sgi.com/software/opengl/advanced97/notes/node58.html
for line and polygon antialiasing :
The coverage of each pixel is computed, and used as alpha value. It can give better results than multisampling, but has limitations.
multisampling/full-scene antialiasing : that is what you want. Is is the same thing as activating antialising in the NVidia control panel under Windows. Basically the scene is rendered on a bigger buffer (typically 2x or 4x in width and height), then pixels are averaged for the final buffer.
You can control it via an opengl extension, for details there is a NeHe tutorial which seems pretty good :
http://nehe.gamedev.net/data/lessons/lesson.asp?lesson=46