Is it possible to toggle "Anti-Aliasing When Resizing" from the Application Display Properties at runtime? This would be handy to give a performance boost to lower end machines.
Is it possible to toggle "Anti-Aliasing When Resizing" from the Application Display Properties at runtime? This would be handy to give a performance boost to lower end machines.
I'm using somehing similar on my very-next-to-come 3D engine for fusion
I basically saved the quality setting 0 or 1 in an external variable and always referenced to that when scaling/rotating etc.
...and believe or not, this doesn't make the slightest performance difference
at least, in my application environment..
Not a bad idea. But is there a way to toggle the display property mentioned above?
Anybody? Is this possible?
Not to my knowledge.I checked a list of command line switches if there's a parameter that could be passed to the executable, but sadly there isn't one for anti-aliasing - unless there is a hidden one?
Is there really a performance difference when you manually toggle that option and run your game? I would have thought today's PC's wouldn't flinch at this. It is more of a style choice, tbh.
When testing on some of my lower end machines it does make a difference. About 20 fps. Granted most machines will handle it, but I find the lack of an option to toggle this at runtime pretty inexcusable when you consider this has been a standard PC option for games for a long time. This basically means I have to make two builds of an exe due to the lack of this option.
One thing I want to note: The anti-aliasing option in MMF2/CF2.5 isn't exactly very good in the first place, barely making a difference in how objects look (admittedly it looks a touch better with the option than without, but there is one problem with the setting I'm going to get to in a moment). Manually giving your objects anti-aliasing using alpha channels looks a LOT better, for example. As a matter of fact, it doesn't even seem to work at all in HWA (which pretty much renders the setting useless), which tells me that it may just be there for compatibility purposes or something...
Just my thoughts on the matter.
There's a few types of anti-aliasing, some fast, some with expense of performance -- I wonder which one Fusion uses.
I suppose if it's easy to implement, it could be a feature request on the bug tracker?
In fact, it's already been requested over a year ago:
http://bugbox.clickteam.com/issues/906
I do agree that usually Fusion's Anti Aliasing does not make much of a difference, however that is usually with pixel art that I see no difference. In my case, using pre-rendered CGI sprites, there is a huge difference.
In the attached example, the image on the left is without anti-aliasing, and the image on the right uses anti aliasing. I just really do not understand why there is not an option to toggle this at runtime, or at all for that matter. There may be a reason that Yves or Francois could elaborate on, but this really needs to be an option.
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