Anti-aliasing & textures

[mistah_a]

hi there
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[mistah_a]

me a stupido!!!
just looked to my pic

[actarus]

Very simple, when you were looking at it in
maya, it was zoomed in on, or zoomed out of,

In which case the pixels arent lining up correctly
with ur monitors pixels, images will only look
good in most progs at perfect zooms(ie 50%, 100%, 200% etc)

Sometimes in renderview in maya, even if it's at 100% the
pic will look strange, its just the view of the image,
not the actual image thats at fault tho.

-Tad
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-Tad
LHPtomi@hotmail.com
icq: 24416123

[mistah_a]

yeah but i have used maya sins the beginning,(V1.0)and the
funny thing is,that most of the times it does look great,even with different angles,but sometimes it just look
crappy! when rendering inside Maya,and a different story when previewing it in photoshop or Fcheck.
yester day i thougt i should shut down and restart it again,
vol

[heydiddlediddle]

The problem could be with the machine you're on, or the graphics card in that machine. Images look much better in fcheck for my IndigoII High Impact all the time. Within Maya, they look like 8 bit images, and in fcheck from a shell, the same image looks like a nice 24 bit image. Call up your Alias rep or your graphics card manufacturer to see if there are any confirmed problems with your setup. Maya 1.0 was a real pain to use for rendering on my HighImpact since i had to minimize Maya to look at a render in fcheck. I've noticed Maya does not like rendering large polygons (the map gets blurred out, even a projection map). What do you mean by crappy though? aliased? Blurry? flickering?

[mistah_a]

crappy=bad anti-aliasing,blurry textures,the color are just fine,and the rest of it.
have a 3dlabs VX-1 with GVX-1 drives working great,!

[daveb]

This may or may not be helpful but about 4 months ago I purchased the GVX1 for my Intergraph and it just didn't work out. I ended up returning the card for a refund. It had major problems starting with manipulators not operating in Maya and other strangeness with polygons rendering in a non smoothed state(in Maya and Lightwave as well), yet nurbs surfaces rendered fine. The GVX1's drivers at the time still needed work and this specific card seemed to have had a hardware memory breakdown. 3dlabs tech support worked with me on this until I got fed up after a week and then returned the card.

[heydiddlediddle]

try subdiving the polygons into smaller pieces(or just adding a poly edge wherever the smears/blurriness happens. Maya's renderer doesn't seem to like large polys. I've had textures (even projectionmapped ones) get very smeared looking, blurred out to be unrecognizable, etc.