Is it necessary to use Subpixel Jitter AA

[RogerDatSoldier]

Well, I dunno if this render setting tool is useful for making a good render poster. So a little help out can make it good for me to know.

[marty]

ye, just keep it on

[Marco Skoll]

There are few reasons why you'd want to turn it off. (The only time I've needed to was to separately render a map element that was disagreeing with SFM's sampling).

It makes almost no difference to the render time, but a big improvement to quality.

[RogerDatSoldier]

Originally posted by Marco Skoll:

There are few reasons why you'd want to turn it off. (The only time I've needed to was to separately render a map element that was disagreeing with SFM's sampling).

It makes almost no difference to the render time, but a big improvement to quality.

So it's not important you say to use for rendering posters? Or improved the look when it's done rendering.

[Fluid Script Studios]

You should use it for rendering anything and everything really.

[Marco Skoll]

Originally posted by RogerDatSoldier:

So it's not important you say to use for rendering posters?

That is the exact opposite of what I said.

It is important, and does not slow down rendering. It's very rare that I have ever turned it off.

[RogerDatSoldier]

Thanks for the help people. Like I said, I'm still learning the ins and outs of it :)

[Zappy]

The "AA" stands for "anti-aliasing[en.wikipedia.org]". In basic terms, it makes edges of things smoother, with the only bad thing about it being an extremely minimal performance impact. In other words, just always use it.

[JANJAN]

how do i increase models smoothnes aka anti aliasing in rendering window ? i tried dsr but it dont helps alot plus it make sfm lag lmao

[Zappy]

Originally posted by HARUHAHA03:

how do i increase models smoothnes aka anti aliasing in rendering window ? -

What do you mean by "rendering window", exactly?

Originally posted by HARUHAHA03:

- i tried dsr -

If by "dsr" you mean "dynamic super resolution", that's not really useful for Source Filmmaker. If you want to render at more than 1280x720, just do that (without "dynamic super resolution"). And if not, why use "dynamic super resolution"?

[JANJAN]

by rendering window i mean primary viewport window how can i smooth models inside this preview window ? im mostly interested in using sfm as model viewer/poser (im acustomed to xps) rather than animation studio only bcoz of variety of models available for this platform sry for bad english

edit or how do i can change actual field of view not field of weapon view to value for example 20 (zoomed in) in F11 game mode ?

[Marco Skoll]

Originally posted by HARUHAHA03:

by rendering window i mean primary viewport window how can i smooth models inside this preview window?

The slightly blocky look in that window is caused because SFM renders the scene at one resolution and then resizes to the preview window size rather crudely.

You can't fix how it looks in that window (other than by having that window exactly the right size on screen), but any "export -> image" type exports (which export the original version before resizing) will not have the same issue.

Basically, don't try to capture the image using screenshots, use the proper export function!

[JANJAN]

already found solution

sfm.exe -sfm_resolution 2160 -w 3840 -h 2160 -sfm_shadowmapres 8192 -monitortexturesize 1024 -reflectiontexturesize 1024 +mat_antialias 8 -nop4 +mat_forceaniso 16 +mat_envmapsize 256 +r_waterforceexpensive 1 +r_waterforcereflectentities 1 +mat_dxlevel 95 +r_hunkalloclightmaps 0
-nosteam

this is what i wanted oWo

only how i increase size of text for 4k res lol ? im using 4k res only for this purpouse normally in windows im using 1080p so its kinda annoying to restart pc everytime i want to change dpi thingy lmao :/ using win7

[Marco Skoll]

Originally posted by HARUHAHA03:

already found solution

Given I wrote that "solution", I can tell you it's not going to fix what you asked.

im using 4k res only for this purpouse

SFM does not require the screen resolution to be 4K for the render resolution to be 4K.
It will show a brief warning if you try it, but the warning can be ignored.

[JANJAN]

lol dint payed attaention it was u thank u then ^.- in my case eaven when i ignore the warning i got the "stairs" while on 4k res i dont i also use the custom res not dsr mode in driver so yeah that text size is a bummer lmao

[Zappy]

Originally posted by HARUHAHA03:

hd res -Image- uhd res -Image-

What are you trying to show here?

If you're trying to show that the models are aliased and appear more "staircase-like" at lower pixel resolutions... yes, but what you have in the first image is already well beyond good enough.

If you're trying to show that the interface text and buttons is/are smaller at higher pixel resolutions... yes. I believe that there's a way to increase the interface size without breaking stuff, but it's more complicated than it's worth, especially when you don't normally use as high a pixel resolution as in the latter image.

If you're trying to show that stuff looks grainier at lower pixel resolutions when working on/editing stuff in Source Filmmaker, simply right-click the viewport, choose "Render Settings", and disable ambient occlusion. (Don't forget to turn it back on before doing any final image/image sequence exports.)