Anti-Aliasing

[Gebastram]

I hope this is the right place to ask this.

If I am correct, RO:HoS will be using Unreal Engine 3, right?
and if so, will there be any anti-aliasing support?
cause lack of anti-aliasing is one of those things that really bug me about the Unreal Engine 3. I think it is somewhat important to have anti-aliasing because it makes a game more immersive and makes it look a lot more like you're actually there.

 

[Ender]

If you look at the early screenshots compared to the newer ones(even compare some of the new ones to each other) there does seem to be AA being used. Does The Ball have AA? I would think if it does I would think HOS would have it too.

 

[hockeywarrior]

Does The Ball have AA? I would think if it does I would think HOS would have it too.

Not necessarily -- RO2, while using the same base engine as The Ball, is still using a heavily modified version. My gut feeling is that there will be AA.

 

[SheepDip]

I think the newer UDK can have it enabled, through modifying ini's etc.

Given that RO2 uses a modified Unreal 3 engine I'd expect to see it too.

 

[Brozex]

Since it is a modified version of ue 3... could we see DX11?

 

[Unterscharfuhrer]

Since it is a modified version of ue 3... could we see DX11?

 

[Reise]

I've been using AA with UE3 games for a while now.

 

[Amerikaner]

I've been using AA with UE3 games for a while now.

You better not be saying that because you're using your video card's control panel. That's a cop out.

 

[Ender]

The last game i tried that didnt have it working was AA3(no surprise) and the Batman demo was the first one that did it right for UE3.

 

[Zetsumei]

The last game i tried that didnt have it working was AA3(no surprise) and the Batman demo was the first one that did it right for UE3.

The batman demo did work perfectly on all hardware, but the full game had the AA options removed for ATI hardware while it worked perfectly fine in the demo. Typically of a NVIDIA "The way its meant to be played" title.

 

[Amerikaner]

The batman demo did work perfectly on all hardware, but the full game had the AA options removed for ATI hardware while it worked perfectly fine in the demo. Typically of a NVIDIA "The way its meant to be played" title.

Wow did not know that. What bs. Hey at least they gave the world physx LOL.

 

[Zetsumei]

Wow did not know that. What bs. Hey at least they gave the world physx LOL.

They didn't give the world physx, they bought physx (when it was on the edge of bankrupcy). That was a good thing although they made it so that hardware physx acceleration can only be done on nvidia systems.

In the beginning Ageia made dedicated hardware physx cards that worked on both ATI and NVIDIA systems but they were phased out. Later on people were using PHYSX by plugging a cheap NVIDIA card into their computer purely to calculate the physx stuff.

Then NVIDIA put out an update that disabled the ability to have driver based hardware acceleration on a system where the primary renderer isn't NVIDIA. Forcing people like me to use a hacked NVIDIA driver that only removes the check whether the main graphics card is an NVIDIA one. Of course it works 100% correctly.

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Beside that you have 3d vision, another proprietary NVIDIA standard for 3d gaming that will only work on nvidia hardware with nvidia glasses. Luckily there are alternative methods like iz3d and ddd that support all videocards, 3d screens and glasses available on the market.

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Nvidia is trying where it can to obtain a monopoly position in the 3d hardware realm in order to not have to compete based on strength with ATI. NVIDIA does what it can to try and make sure that game devs do not use open standards but rather use their proprietary standard using NVIDIA only function sets.

 

[213]

aa is obsolete now with graphics cards that easily allow you to ratchet up the resolution.

 

[hockeywarrior]

aa is obsolete now with graphics cards that easily allow you to ratchet up the resolution.

Only if you have a high res monitor, though.

 

[213]

if you have a monitor from 3 to 4 years ago, they should be capable of 1280 resolution...a sweet spot for resolution/performance/jaggy minimization.

but more recent models can go up to 1600 and can cost less than 150 dollars

aax4 on 1024 resolution looks the same as no aa on 1280 resolution

 

[Reise]

You better not be saying that because you're using your video card's control panel. That's a cop out.

How is it a cop out?

It's the same thing.

 

[hockeywarrior]

How is it a cop out?

It's the same thing.

Sort of. I heard that it runs fairly slow sometimes when you force it through the graphics card, compared to if the game has it as a built in feature ... not sure if that's true or not.

 

[Reise]

That's what they say, but I've never had such an issue.

Also many times in-game AA doesn't go as high as I'd like it, or doesn't have the right settings.

 

[jalex3]

RO2 will have AA in its settings I dont know to what "x" but yes it will be an in game setting,
how do I know this? I asked John on the ball launch day and he told me. Dont ask for screen shot becuase I forgot to take one.

 

[Xendance]

Only if you have a high res monitor, though.

aa is obsolete now with graphics cards that easily allow you to ratchet up the resolution.

It's not sharper if the pixel size is the same on the low res and high res monitors.
Only way it would be sharper then would be that you'd sit further away from the bigger monitor.