We are way past the feature freeze date for this release. The objective
now is to ensure the API is clean and doesn't preclude future options.
Currently MSAA is the only supported technique and specifying the number
of samples will require additional API which we aren't ready to commit.
- Chien
On 7/23/2013 2:04 PM, Felix Bembrick wrote:
Exactly.
I think we need to come up with a word that implies that it's really a
balance of quality and speed. That's why I suggested BALANCED but I am
hoping we can do even better than that.
As an aside, why did you decide to not expose the setting of either
the AA type or number of samples? I would have though that serious
graphics developers would really like to have such options available
to them.
On 24 July 2013 06:58, Chien Yang <chien.y...@oracle.com
<mailto:chien.y...@oracle.com>> wrote:
Yes, very good point, we struggled with the DEFAULT value too. It
doesn't really convey the in between value of FAST and NICEST.
- Chien
On 7/23/2013 1:41 PM, Felix Bembrick wrote:
I am not sure I like the name of the value DEFAULT. To me
"default" implies some kind of "typical" option for the
particular platform which could conceivably be very different on
each platform. For example, on my Windows super-computer with
ultra fast GPU the "default" would logically be something like
16x whereas on my iPhone I would expect the default to be using
only 2x. The comment for DEFAULT implies that it's really more
of a BALANCED or MODERATE setting that would have the same
characteristics on each platform.
On 24 July 2013 06:29, Chien Yang <chien.y...@oracle.com
<mailto:chien.y...@oracle.com>> wrote:
Hi all,
We appreciate all the feedback you have contributed to
this topic. After listening to the feedback and an internal
discussion, we would like to propose a minor change to the
API for supporting scene anti-aliasing. We intentionally
choose not to expose the number of samples and techniques
used in this release, but this doesn't preclude future
addition when the time is right for more options. This change
will be tracked by RT-31878
(https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-31878):
Anti-aliasing API Change Proposal:
Constructors remove:
public Scene(Parent root, double width, double height,
boolean depthBuffer, boolean antiAliasing)
public SubScene(Parent root, double width, double height,
boolean depthBuffer, boolean antiAliasing)
Constructor add:
public Scene(Parent root, double width, double height,
boolean depthBuffer, SceneAntiAliasing antiAliasing)
public SubScene(Parent root, double width, double height,
boolean depthBuffer, SceneAntiAliasing antiAliasing)
Note:The antiAliasing argument will be used if the underlying
graphics driver has anti-aliasing support.
Where SceneAntiAliasing is an enum with the following entries
at the moment:
public enum SceneAntiAliasing {
DISABLED, // disables anti-aliasing
DEFAULT, // enables anti-aliasing using a default system
setting available that balances speed and quality
FASTEST, // enables anti-aliasing using minimum system
setting available that results in better frame rate
NICEST // enables anti-aliasing using maximum system
setting available that results in best visual quality
}
Thanks,
- Chien
