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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Can the Wii do any sort of HW antialiasing or is it all software?

kn on 26 April 2008

I'm curious as I don't recall reading any specs that indicate any sort of hardware features dedicated or optimized specifically for anti-aliasing.

With that said, I bought Okami today and there seems to be some real-time AA going on in some parts of the game.  I could be mistaken, however, but I ocassionally see things that are most certainly anti-aliased.  They may just be prerendered (already anti-aliased manually by the artist) stuff that are being "moved" across the screen as it doesn't seem to be on everything...

Anyone with Okami care to share what they think?



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dsoverpsp on 26 April 2008

anti-aliased
don't even know what that means



supermariogalaxy on 26 April 2008

I think someone said even the Gamecube had some form of AA I think...So the Wii must have it too (HW AA)



 

TheRealMafoo on 26 April 2008

Yes, it has HW AA.



Shameless on 26 April 2008
dsoverpsp said:
anti-aliased
don't even know what that means

 Blurs jaggies to make them smooth or something. I have no idea either to be honest ;)



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Chrizum on 26 April 2008

Considering the N64 had hardware AA, obviously the Wii can do it also.



ItsaMii on 26 April 2008

The wii can`t do 3D grafix.



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ZenfoldorVGI on 26 April 2008

I thought that was when horizontal bar sections of the picture were kinda out of sync with the rest of the picture during graphical heavy sequences, like in Ninja Gaiden for the Xbox.



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dsoverpsp on 26 April 2008
ZenfoldorVGI said:
I thought that was when horizontal bar sections of the picture were kinda out of sync with the rest of the picture during graphical heavy sequences, like in Ninja Gaiden for the Xbox.

 still don't rlly get it :(



Chrizum on 26 April 2008
ZenfoldorVGI said:
I thought that was when horizontal bar sections of the picture were kinda out of sync with the rest of the picture during graphical heavy sequences, like in Ninja Gaiden for the Xbox.

Nope, that's Vsync. AA is the smoothing of hard edges, or "jaggies" as most people call them.