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General Category => General Anim8or Forum => Topic started by: mikeman118 on April 13, 2008, 10:53:00 am

Title: Terranim8or and Anim8or
Post by: mikeman118 on April 13, 2008, 10:53:00 am

Hi,

I was built a terrain in Terranim8or, and then when I open it Anim8or, it looks much less detailed. I attached pictures of the two different softwares.  The first one is Terrainim8or, and the second is Anim8or.  They don't look too different when rendered as a picture, but when I render it as a movie it looks much less detailed and not as good.  Is there any way to fix this or is this just how it is? Thanks in advance.

Title: Re: Terranim8or and Anim8or
Post by: mcheccyb on April 13, 2008, 11:53:02 am

are they both rendered with anti-aliasing?

Title: Re: Terranim8or and Anim8or
Post by: mikeman118 on April 13, 2008, 02:10:33 pm

I know that the Anim8or one is with anti-aliasing, however since Terranim8or is cannot render images I'm not sure. (I had to take a screen shot).

Title: Re: Terranim8or and Anim8or
Post by: hihosilver on April 13, 2008, 02:26:54 pm

That means that the terranim8or version is not rendered with antialiasing.  Antialiasing will not be used in the viewport as that would slow down the viewing process a TON.  So if you want the terrain to look like it does in terranim8or you may just want to turn off antialiasing, but then the edges won't look so good.

Title: Re: Terranim8or and Anim8or
Post by: mikeman118 on April 13, 2008, 02:44:08 pm

How do I do that?  ???

I can't check or uncheck anti-aliasing in the viewport preferences.

Title: Re: Terranim8or and Anim8or
Post by: mikeman118 on April 13, 2008, 05:22:50 pm

Anyone know?

Title: Re: Terranim8or and Anim8or
Post by: hihosilver on April 13, 2008, 08:32:01 pm

You do it when you render.  So when you go "Render>Render image..." and the popup box appears, there's an 'antialiased' option that you can uncheck.

Title: Re: Terranim8or and Anim8or
Post by: mikeman118 on April 13, 2008, 08:59:27 pm

Well, that works when rendering an image in object mode, but not a movie (although I haven't tried rendering an image in scene mode).  Is there any way to fix that, or do I just have to live with it?

Title: Re: Terranim8or and Anim8or
Post by: Alpha2 on April 13, 2008, 09:58:32 pm

You can render your movies without anti aliasing in scene mode but they have to be fairly high res videos or they're going to look horrible.

In scene mode: Render>Render Movie> in the Image menu where you can adjust the size of the movie you'll see a check box to turn of the Anti Aliasing.

Title: Re: Terranim8or and Anim8or
Post by: thecolclough on April 14, 2008, 05:40:24 am

personally, i think the antialiased image looks fine.  if you tried rendering a video of that object without AA on, then it'd look awful, you'd get a sort of 'swimming textures' effect, which is nearly always a really bad thing :P

- colclough