The only antialiasing mode works well.

General Discussion
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  1. nup, firefox here. but images do show now you moved them to p3dp.

  2. what do you mean with precompiled release? panda3d precompiled release?

I just followed your instruction from the first post, but python segfaults :frowning:

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  1. I guess the hoster is getting smarter :laughing:
  2. yes, Josh Yellon’s build, what else

I’m just fine here. Did you build it yourself ?

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I’m using the deb package, meaning Josh’s precompiled version.

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I know this is an old post but I figured I would post here since I am having problems getting AA to work on Panda3D 1.5.3. I have the following lines in my code.

At the beginning of the python script

from pandac.PandaModules import loadPrcFileData
loadPrcFileData( '', 'framebuffer-multisample 1' )

import direct.directbase.DirectStart

Right after doing capabilities checks

        # Set antialiasing to on
        render.setAntialias(AntialiasAttrib.MMultisample, 1)

What else do I need to get this working. I know the card supports AA its an ATI Radeon HD 3450 and I can turn on up to 4x multisample AA in WoW.

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That’s all you need, or you can directly set the samples count :

loadPrcFileData('', 'multisamples 16')

which automatically turns on FSAA.
To verify it :

print 'AA SAMPLES:',base.win.getFbProperties().getMultisamples()

I can get it perfectly fine with my own builds, both on Windows and Linux :
2x : 41 fps
4x : 26 fps
8x : 14 fps
16x : 7 fps

If I go beyond 16 :
:display(warning): FrameBufferProperties available less than requested.
HD is HighDefinition, right ?
It should be alot more capable than my junky FX. Are you sure you’re not override it at driver level ?
What’s your OS ? Are you using DX ?
I built mine without DX, so I can’t tell.

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This worked. It seems that the render attributes are not propagating down through the nodes cause if I set the render node with AntialiasAttrib.MMultisample. Then check the anti-aliasing of nodes under that like the node that the model is attached to it reports no anti-aliasing as being set. So any ideas why the anti-aliasing setting is not being pushed down to the other nodes?

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Hi,

I am trying to turn it on but it says

NameError: global name ‘AntialiasAttrib’ is not defined

Do I have to import something other than these two?

from pandac.PandaModules import loadPrcFileData
loadPrcFileData( ‘’, ‘framebuffer-multisample 1’ )

import direct.directbase.DirectStart

Thank you!

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You need this import to be able to use AntialiasAttrib.

from pandac.PandaModules import AntialiasAttrib
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It only works for the particular node on which setAntialias() was called, just like setTexture. But the effect propagates down.

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Now we’re in the subject, is there a way to override the driver setting for antialiasing modes? I did not find any config variables for it.

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The “driver settings” are themselves overrides for what your application might be requesting programmatically. So, no, there’s no possibility to override them further in the application.

David