Can you make OSA selective?

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Does OSA have to smooth everything in your scene? Even at its lowest setting (5) it can smooth some textures to much.

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Easy, render 3 different levels, open them all up in photoshop/gimp as different layers, and then mask to whatever composition you want!!!

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like adaptive antialiasing?

i don’t think blender has that.

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Thanks MacGyver. Yes, thats not hard but I was just looking for a quicker way.

SamAdam, is OSA antialiasing? I thought antialiasing was where the edge of an object is gently blured to its suroundings? OSA seems more like a blur of everything not just edges.

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Yafray has more control over anti-aliasing, but is missing some effects of the Blender internal, like halo effects and I never could get shaders to work (shaders could have been me, but I know halo effects don’t work).

Also I believe you can set materials not to show antialiasing, somewhere in the textures dialogue.

When animating, OSA is always good I have found, the higher the better.

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what about in the materials option of “full OSA” or does it not work without OSA on?

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I don’t know what full OSA does. But I turned OSA off in the rendering menu and enabled full OSA in the texture menu and it did not apply OSA to anything. So I believe you have to have OSA enabled for full OSA to do whatever it is supposed to…

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Hi !

I think that you can use for example OSA level 5 on the whole animation, and set some material that needs a higher resolution to Full OSA.

Philippe.

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if you have problem on image textures going blurry, there is also “filter” value on texture settings… lower that to make them sharper.

.b

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Basse, is it under the Texture Buttons or Material Buttons, because I can’t find “filter”?

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Under the Texture buttons, when you have assigned an image texture, in the Image tab, under the button “Load Image”.

http://download.blender.org/documentation/htmlII/x4605.html#AEN5600

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Thanks! Now if only there was something for procedurals, they get blured as well…

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Are you sure that’s because of the OSA? When you’re using procedurals a tab “Colors” appears next to the Texture tab. There you can change contrast, brightness and use a colorband. Maybe this can help to make your procedurals less blurry.

http://download.blender.org/documentation/htmlII/x4605.html#AEN5564