split polygon problem when antialiasing

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hi

when rendering a quad with the following settings, i have the problem that the antialiasing not only occurs on the edges of the quad, but visibly on the edges of the triangles which make up the quad.

glHint(GL_POLYGON_SMOOTH_HINT, GL_NICEST);
glEnable(GL_POLYGON_SMOOTH);
glBlendFunc(GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA);

i have the same problem when making a solid circle from a triangle fan, when i enable antialiasing i can actually see the outline of each fan

is there any way to avoid this???

thanks in advance

james

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The hardware always rasterize triangles.
Polygon smoothing is not the same as MSAA/FSAA. it is a kind of older/less correct ways of antialiasing.
Try disable depth testing, but it will bring other problems.

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ah thanks, that brings me closer to a solution

i did a search for MSAA/FSAA, but didnt see anything OpenGL specific. i have no idea what it is, so if anyone can post some links id be very grateful.

btw tried disabling depth testing, but it didnt help.

thanks again

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Sorry for being unclear.
The extension you are looking for is : http://opengl.org/registry/specs/ARB/multisample.txt

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great, thanks, i will check it out