Transparent grills/plants Apartment Life--Resolved
Jade:
You may wish to specifically check your ati catalyst control center to see if adaptive anti-aliasing is enabled. I had a problem just like this, and disabling it made stuff solid again. I didn't have to change the regular anti-aliasing settings.
reggikko:
Thanks for the suggestions and help. I'll see if I can get it sorted out. Fortunately, it seems to be just these couple of items that are affected, so it's more an annoyance than a real problem.
Quote from: Jade on 2009 April 11, 15:34:14
You may wish to specifically check your ati catalyst control center to see if adaptive anti-aliasing is enabled. I had a problem just like this, and disabling it made stuff solid again. I didn't have to change the regular anti-aliasing settings.
This fixed it. Thanks again!
Hegelian:
It was, in fact, having adaptive AA enabled in the Catalyst driver that was causing the problem, on both machines. This is on two different graphics boards (one HD 3870 and one HD 4830, both from MSI), and two different, but recent, versions of the ATi driver set.
We had messed with the in-game settings, with no luck. Thanks to Jade for pointing to something that would not have occurred to me, mostly because I forgot about that setting in the driver.
ATi's adaptive AA applies anti-aliasing to transparent areas to smooth the way the objects look in games. Knowing this, it becomes easy to understand why grills (with their grates) and cribs (with their bars) would be affected if the objects being AA'd don't take well to that technique. OTOH, it's not so clear why this would affect a plant. Presumably it has something to do with the transparency texturing of these specific objects, for when they become see-through when you get up close. Or maybe not. :P
J. M. Pescado:
Well, with plants, one polygon-saving technique is, rather than rendering each leaf as a complicated polygon shape, to simply render it as a flat blade and alpha the parts that are not desired.
witch:
Well, I've turned my adaptive anti-aliasing off and tomorrow when I boot up the game I'll find out if it helps. Thanks for the tip Jade.
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