rec.autos.simulators

I'll put money on it that it still wont have AA.Since the Voodoo doesnt support
 it,They probly wont take the time to include it.
Brian

    Well the only couple of titles I can think of quickly that support
both Voodoo and Rendition are Tomb Raider and Ef2k.  There is AA in
both of the Rendition titles, but I don't think either Voodoo version
has it...So if your expecting AA just because your finally getting a
voodoo patch...I wouldn't hold my breath.

Dave Henrie

#99 The Pits Touring Car Championship

Yep,Even though the 3Dfx boxes say Anti Aliasing as a feature...Ther Voodoo has
 no AA support.It has to do it through glide(Software based AA)Which is MUCH
 slower.
Brian

But the end result is MUCH faster!  I know, I have both.

Joe

  Hi Aaron, AA is short for Anti-Aliasing.  Which is a color technique
that smooths the jaggies on most images.  For indycar Racing 2 the
cars look sharp and smooth, but the Rendition version of N2 does not
have AA and so the cars keep that shifting blurry look.
  AA btw, was developed for desktop publishing to smooth out the
letters on the newfangled fonts on GUI based systems(ha! another bunch
of initials!)

#99 The Pits Touring Car Championship

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  I believe I read here that the N2 team took out the AA to meet
specifications for a minimun system requirement that had already been
decided.  AA was there, but to include it would have forced the team
to accept higher min. standards...(I don't know if Papyrus or Sierra
set the limits)

Dave Henrie

#99 The Pits Touring Car Championship

Mike Radler

Hawaii Ace League http://www.dithots.org/hal

If this is true, then I would have to wonder, if it was coded already (or at
 least partially), why didn't they offer it as an option that could be turned
 on or off depending on the system it was used on?  If this wasn't possible,
 then why not offer a patch that would add it at a later time?  IMO, and
 speaking from ignorance, I'd have to think that it was never started in the
 first place.

ChrisP

Here's a quote from Jim's post,
Jim Sokoloff (Former Papyrus employee) wrote on 9/5/97:

Mike Radler

Hawaii Ace League http://www.dithots.org/hal

1. The game barely fit in the minimum machine spec. (Can't remember if
the real problem was DOS or Win95; if the memory spec was the same,
you can bet it was Win95.) Having the code lying around unused still
takes up space, though not near as much as having the anti-aliasing
data being actively kept track of.

2. The anti-aliasing in ICR2 was wrong. While it offered an
improvement to the look of the screen, that improvement came at the
cost of degrading some scenes. Making it work "right" was not in the
schedule, for reasons of engineering time and #1 above.

3. The graphics engine for N2 was a total re-write, though it was free
to draw on code from the ICR2 engine which did support anti-aliasing,
even in a slightly broken fashion.

Sierra marketing or other business folks decided what would go on the
minimum machine spec sticker and Papyrus wrote a game which barely
conformed to that sticker.

---Jim

much snipped away

And there is the rub, the suits have dictated the engineering of the
project. I suppose quite a few people got fairly rich with the buyout
(as witnessed by the exodus of fairly high players), but the product
has suffered IMHO with Ken Williams and company (is he really as much
of an SOB as he looks in all his pictures?).  The Papyrus sims always
were a bit ahead of the hardware curve so I don't see the point. The
minimum requirements are marketing crap. The only specs that mean
anything are the recommended requirements. Once a person with the
minimum requirement machine buys a game to fit that spec he/she will
be disappointed and will see right through it (as well as scream
***y ripoff).

If a sim is GOOD ENOUGH, people will buy the hardware to support it.
Falcon 3.0 sold more upgraded machines than any other title, I'm
willing to bet.

Jeff Haas