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Anti-aliasing needs improvement #748

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
It would greatly enhance the appearance of the GE plugin when used as a flight 
simulator if the anti-aliasing could be improved.

Thanks.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by matthew.s.whalley@gmail.com on 9 Feb 2012 at 4:43

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Can you be more specific? Is there something in the Google Earth desktop client 
that you'd like to see in the plugin?

Original comment by bcke...@google.com on 28 Feb 2012 at 11:44

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
As can be seen in this screen capture from a flight simulator there does not 
appear to be any anti-alaising present. It is most visible in the hard edges of 
the buildings and horizon. This is especially bothersome when the scene is in 
motion.

I don't know if this is a function of the graphics card or the GE plugin but it 
is quite noticeable. I have seen the same problem on both Macs and PCs with 
fairly recent graphics hardware.

Original comment by matthew.s.whalley@gmail.com on 29 Feb 2012 at 5:11

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
A simple search revealed that this is an old issue - although in those cases 
the concern was more about ant-ialaising of linestings not the terrain or 
buildings. The general opinion is that the GE Plugin does not enable 
anti-aliasing by default. I say opinion because I can't find official 
acknowledgement. I do know that anti-aliasing of linestrings was much improved 
somewhere along the line. Some folks claim to have had luck enabling 
anti-aliasing via the NVIDIA control panel (under Windows) but I was unable to 
reproduce that workaround.

bcke... can you shed a little light?

Original comment by matthew.s.whalley@gmail.com on 7 Mar 2012 at 3:26