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Anti-aliasing is not working
Doctor Cop
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April 2018
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I am trying Anti-aliasing in my code but it's not working.

please help me.

al_set_new_display_option(ALLEGRO_SAMPLE_BUFFERS, 1, ALLEGRO_SUGGEST);
al_set_new_display_option(ALLEGRO_SAMPLES, 8, ALLEGRO_SUGGEST);
al_set_new_bitmap_flags(ALLEGRO_MIN_LINEAR | ALLEGRO_MAG_LINEAR);

the code above which I copied from GitHub's Wiki

the code which I wrote

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1#include <allegro5/allegro.h> 2#include <allegro5/allegro_primitives.h> 3 4int main() 5{ 6 al_init(); 7 al_init_primitives_addon(); 8 9 al_set_new_display_option(ALLEGRO_SAMPLE_BUFFERS, 1, ALLEGRO_SUGGEST); 10 al_set_new_display_option(ALLEGRO_SAMPLES, 8, ALLEGRO_SUGGEST); 11 al_set_new_bitmap_flags(ALLEGRO_MIN_LINEAR | ALLEGRO_MAG_LINEAR); 12 13 ALLEGRO_DISPLAY *display = al_create_display(800, 600); 14 15 al_clear_to_color(al_map_rgb(255, 255, 255)); 16 //al_draw_circle(400, 300, 100, al_map_rgb_f(1, 0, 1), 2); 17 al_draw_rounded_rectangle(400-100, 300-20, 400+100, 300+20, 20, 20, al_map_rgb(70, 60 , 100), 2); 18 al_flip_display(); 19 al_rest(5); 20 21 al_destroy_display(display); 22 return 0; 23}

Edgar Reynaldo
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Doctor Cop
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April 2018
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Is there a way to get smoother primitives guaranteed?

I want to make something with primitives, which library can provide me vector graphics like primitives?

Edgar Reynaldo
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May 2007
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SiegeLord
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October 2006
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Also, primitives are not vector graphics.

This is not correct.

I am trying Anti-aliasing in my code but it's not working.

What OS? If it's Windows, maybe try OpenGL.

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Edgar Reynaldo
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dthompson
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April 2005
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which library can provide me vector graphics like primitives?

Maybe worth mentioning that if you're including vector graphics storage formats (like SVG) in that question: these can't be rendered with Allegro 5. There might be a library out there that can load an SVG and resolve its paths to vertices for a given scale, but a quick Google yielded nothing for me.

However, because of SVG's abundance, I wonder whether this'd make a good add-on?

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Edgar Reynaldo
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Peter Hull
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librsvg will do it. You'd have to make cairo render to a memory buffer which could be converted to an ALLEGRO_BITMAP.
SVG is so complicated that I would imagine doing that in real time would be quite slow.

Doctor Cop
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Hmm, so vector graphics for GUI is a no?

I wonder, How are browsers like Mozilla and Chrome are drawing so smooth layouts?

dthompson
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April 2005
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GUIs absolutely can (and arguably should) be built from vector graphics such that you can do smooth DPI scaling. The user always has the option to veto antialiasing regardless.

How are browsers like Mozilla and Chrome are drawing so smooth layouts?

Trust me, you don't want to worry about how web browsers optimise their renders. It isn't pretty. :P

You'd have to make cairo render to a memory buffer which could be converted to an ALLEGRO_BITMAP.

Huh, this'd be great if we're happy to do the initial [expensive] rasterisation at init, so we end up with mipmaps like Edgar's suggesting.

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Erin Maus
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July 2006
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You can do realtime rendering of resolution independent curves in with antialiasing on a non-MSAA framebuffer: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2005/01/p1000-loop.pdf

I have an implementation for quadratic curves that's really optimized: https://github.com/aaronbolyard/Algae.Canvas

It's just patented until 2026. Thus, unless you license it, you're SOL unless you find a different way of doing it. :'(

I decided the difficulties aren't worth it and have been using vector graphics rasterized offline (ItsyRealm) or vector graphics decomposed into straight lines segments then rasterized to a texture at runtime (Lacklore; necessary for changing fill styles, etc at runtime).

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