iso and AA...
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Printed Date: 13 September 2025 at 2:58pm
Topic: iso and AA...
Posted By: silent sniper
Subject: iso and AA...
Date Posted: 09 November 2006 at 8:26am
| i was wondering... I've never seen a gba iso game with AA, but i hav seen a few pc games and pixel arts with AA. well, what im wondering is, is it right to put AA on a iso pixel art or sprite? |
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Posted By: Blueberry_pie
Date Posted: 09 November 2006 at 8:55am
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This belongs in Resources and Support. Moved it for you. AAing is perfectly acceptable in pretty much any type of pixel art. It's not used in isometric pixel art a lot, but it can look nice if you do it good. ------------- |
Posted By: Monkey 'o Doom
Date Posted: 09 November 2006 at 12:08pm
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Some isometric artists wouldn't think of adding aa (such as jalonso). I, personally, add a bit of aa but try not to do as much as I would on a differently styled piece. It's really a matter of preference. ------------- http://pixelmonkey.ensellitis.com"> 
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Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 09 November 2006 at 1:58pm
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mhmmm, Because isometric is specifically designed to appear smooth on screen (this is why its 26.565 instead of 30 degrees) AA is not ideally needed in iso. The only times it may be used minimally is to smooth certain curves that are too extreme to suit the iso grid. Selout is almost always all you need to make smooth isos. I always use the if you need AA in iso, your lineart is bad method. ps. This is just my way. Many other artists who make iso pieces do use AA and make things that look great. Its art and subjective, do your own thing. ------------- |
Posted By: Lawrence
Date Posted: 10 November 2006 at 2:08am
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I can't see why an isometric piece would be exempt from the celebrated riddance of aliasing any more than the next piece. If it were, then this, in my view would be like saying "a 3-point perspective piece must never have dithering" or some other arbitrary nonsense. The decision is up to the artist. I intentionally leave certain pixels bereft of any anti-aliasing to achieve certain results. This aspect is about objective discretion of the artist and not set rules. As such, I disagree with jalonso's refutation of anti-aliasing as a sign of bad line-art. When I anti-alias sounds in the music I make, it's certainly not a sign of bad composing! jalonso is clearly an AA-Luddite!  J/K
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Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 10 November 2006 at 11:05pm
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AA in iso pieces is absolutely an artistic choice and I only speak for my stuff. I was attempting to answer silent sniper's question why commercial projects never use it while some of us pixel nerds do. In real world production studios, in my experience, the rule is however AA = bad lineart. ------------- |
Posted By: neota
Date Posted: 13 November 2006 at 5:55am
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It's trouble. Non-AAed iso is MUCH easier to get to tile correctly than AAed iso (let's play a game called 'avoid-the-edges' -- in 3 dimensions!). It's doable though, and I prefer it.
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Posted By: alkaline
Date Posted: 13 November 2006 at 1:50pm
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Originally posted by Lawrence As such, I disagree with jalonso's refutation of anti-aliasing as a sign of bad line-art. ja...if you're going out of your way to try and not include AA just because it's what you believe in then maybe you should rethink that. it's what benefits the piece the most! that's the choice you should make. but that's just my silly opinion on the matter that being said if AA works include it in your iso if you want.. ------------- |
Posted By: skeddles
Date Posted: 03 December 2006 at 1:46pm
| if you check out my gallery, you'll notice that my isos are AAed. its just a matter of opinion. |