Forum: Carrara

Subject: jagged edges on text done in spline modeler

hartcons opened this issue on Feb 05, 2002 · 7 posts

hartcons posted Tue, 05 February 2002 at 7:37 PM

I just tried carving some text into a block in the spline modeler but the end result has a lot of jagged edges on the text (look at the "e" for example). Is there any way to get the edges of the text smoothed out? I think I just used Arial font for this test. Are there some fonts that work better for this than others?

JasenJ1 posted Tue, 05 February 2002 at 8:36 PM

Crank up the Surface Fidelity under the Geometry menu. Try around 1000%. - Jasen.

hartcons posted Tue, 05 February 2002 at 8:53 PM

That's more like it.

hartcons posted Tue, 05 February 2002 at 9:32 PM

Is this surface fidelity something that needs to be cranked up on every object (on a per-object basis) to get a nice smooth looking scene?

MarkBremmer posted Wed, 06 February 2002 at 5:32 AM

Yes. Just like you can determine the number of facets for VM objects, surface fidelity controls the number of facets "made" when a spline object is rendered. In RDS the maximum spline fidelity was 400. In carrara it is 1000. I'm not sure whether it is truly a greater fidelity or just more control.

TOXE posted Wed, 06 February 2002 at 7:46 AM

Hey Mark! In Carrara the maximum surface fidelity in the spline is 5000. Or my copy of Carrara is completely crazy? :-) Toxe

MarkBremmer posted Wed, 06 February 2002 at 9:15 AM

I learn something everyday! :)