[Chimera-users] anti-aliasing in mac version

[Grigore Pintilie]

Great, that seems to do the trick. Thanks for the tip!

Greg


On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Greg Couch <gregc at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> I had forgotton that we turn off anti-aliasing by default on some graphics
> cards because it is very slow.  Chimera does that for the NVidia 8600M (and
> Intel) graphics chips.  Probably should do it for more laptop/lowend Macs.
>  To turn it back on, use chimera's Viewing Controls / Effects tool and set
> multisampling to true (and Save it, so it's turned on next you start
> chimera).
>
>        - Greg
>
> On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Grigore Pintilie wrote:
>
>> Thanks for responding so quickly. Actually I am using the Aqua
>> version, sorry for not specifying...
>>
>> Greg
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Greg Couch <gregc at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Grigore Pintilie wrote:
>>>
>>>> If I'm not mistaken it looks like anti-aliasing is not used in the mac
>>>> build of chimera... is there a way to enable this? I'm using a Macbook
>>>> pro with the nvidia card and Mac os X.
>>>>
>>>> Greg
>>>
>>> The simpliest solution is to start using the Aqua version of chimera
>>> instead
>>> of the X11 version.  If you prefer the X11 version, you'll need to update
>>> your X11 server to XQuartz 2.3.2 from <http://xquartz.macosforge.org/> --
>>> should be out early next year, a release candidate is available now.
>>>
>>>       Greg Couch
>>>       UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
>