Antialiasing Threshold

Steve Jepson · ‎2014-07-03

What does this do and what setting will be faster, and what setting will give better quality image?

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Eduardo Rolon · ‎2014-07-03

If I remember my C4D correctly you don't need to touch this since it will add to the rendering time (exponentially) without noticeable differences. AA basically cleans up the jaggies (steps) on diagonal lines.

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Steve Jepson · ‎2014-07-03

ejrolon wrote:
If I remember my C4D correctly you don't need to touch this since it will add to the rendering time (exponentially) without noticeable differences. AA basically cleans up the jaggies (steps) on diagonal lines.

Which way adds to the render time ? Higher Threshold or Lower ?

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Eduardo Rolon · ‎2014-07-03

If I had to guess it would be lower.

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Steve Jepson · ‎2014-07-03

Lower for faster or Higher for slower?

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Eduardo Rolon · ‎2014-07-03

lower = slower (more area/pixels to evaluate)

but I am guessing

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Steve Jepson · ‎2014-07-03

I set threshold to 50 on this test and it does not seem to make much difference. Please forgive my bad textures.

I am pretty sure now that the threshold setting has to do with edges of surfaces only.

http://screencast.com/t/XIBmCgIPGi6

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