Warsow 1.1 In Beta With FXAA, Renderer Improvements

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Warsow 1.1 In Beta With FXAA, Renderer Improvements

At long last we're on the heels of a new Warsow game release. Warsow, one of the more interesting open-source first person shooters and is powered by Qfusion rather than ioquake3 and others, has now reached a beta state for its forthcoming 1.1 release...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTU5ODA

[Sidicas]

I love FXAA!! When I first started playing games with it, my first thought was... WOW, everything that needs to be anti-aliased is actually anti-aliased!! (MSAA doesn't anti-alias the results of pixel shaders leaving jaggies on some things but not on others. ). And stuff that doesn't need to be anti-aliased isn't anti-aliased so there is no heavy performance hit.. And on top of that, thin lines that don't really need anti-aliasing don't get blurred into oblivion like they do when you enable MSAA. This is brilliant!

FXAA, the way anti-aliasing should have been done 15 years ago... Of course, that wasn't possible because the graphics pipeline was too linear to do it, but it would have been nice.

[ObiWan]

And I hate FXAA, at least the way it's implemented in all games.

It just makes everything blurry as hell.

[mmstick]

I love FXAA!! When I first started playing games with it, my first thought was... WOW, everything that needs to be anti-aliased is actually anti-aliased!! (MSAA doesn't anti-alias the results of pixel shaders leaving jaggies on some things but not on others. ). And stuff that doesn't need to be anti-aliased isn't anti-aliased so there is no heavy performance hit.. And on top of that, thin lines that don't really need anti-aliasing don't get blurred into oblivion like they do when you enable MSAA. This is brilliant!

FXAA, the way anti-aliasing should have been done 15 years ago... Of course, that wasn't possible because the graphics pipeline was too linear to do it, but it would have been nice.

I think you need to try out SMAA -- it's a lot better than FXAA.

[ua=42]

I turn off anti-aliasing.... It just never seems to be worth it to me.

[curaga]

I think you need to try out SMAA -- it's a lot better than FXAA.

Indeed. I too find Jimenez's methods much better quality than FXAA, in that they don't blur textures unnecessarily while FXAA does.

[Calinou]

Still no public development repository.

[Viciious]

Still no public development repository.

https://github.com/viciious/qfusion is the de-facto public development repository as far as code is concerned. There hasn't been much going on media-wise lately anyway..