Rendering issue (2)

[ibutter]

i have a particle effect making smoke.... i'm using spheres with a dent texture on it with the alpha perp and alpha para set to make the edge transparent (i think alpha para =0) and over all opacity is low.

but when i render the outline of the primitive shows as an alaised jaggy line.. .and when i change the object to polys it shows the outline too. Thought someone would know a reason. oh- there are not any shadows coming from the particles (yet).

the dent isn't effecting it.. since it still occurs when i remove the dent TOP.

please help thanks

ibutter

[tombraider5000]

You should try using the smoke detail rather than spheres. Spheres will definitly cause edge artifacts when they interpenitrate... (smoke detail are circles with normals that always face camera (in prisms they called them smoke, maybe h4 has a new name)) I would add a super small random offset to the points $TX position so that no one point ever exists on the same position in relationship the camera depth (asuming you looking in Z) also are you using lambert? sometimes spec highlights do wierd things with a dent/alpha para|perp combo...