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lines/cracks through points?

Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2015 5:08 pm
by Welsh Jester
Don't know if this has been discussed before or not, but I noticed something by accident and it is bugging me a little. This might be one for the people with OCD :lol:

So upon doing some renders I noticed there were dark pixels appearing directly beneath/on top of where I added points in strokes. To test this in AS you can make a simple line as a stroke and just add a lot of points to it, hit render and zoom in to the line, you should see vertical lines going right through the stroke.

I made a sample image showing what I mean, it's just a stroke with extra points added in. If you find it hard to see you can import it into an image editor and use the paint bucket tool to try and fill it on low tolerance.

Here's the image - http://s8.postimg.org/h96kw8tat/cracks2.jpg and one of the moon crater from the night sky template, look around the bottom area - http://s24.postimg.org/qvb4m7vj9/cracks.jpg

This is not happening due to zooming in, they appear to always be there. Anyone know what this is? Is it just the way the program works?

Re: lines/cracks through points?

Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2015 7:22 pm
by slowtiger
Confirmed for v11, not in v9.5.

Re: lines/cracks through points?

Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 3:32 am
by djwaterman
Never noticed it, but it should be addressed.

Re: lines/cracks through points?

Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 12:48 pm
by GCharb
Saw that too in my latest work, did not bother me, but yes, it should be fixed!

Re: lines/cracks through points?

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 5:55 pm
by Welsh Jester
I'm seeing it even in trial versions, maybe it's in all of them? I contacted support and they just mentioned anti-aliasing but that doesn't seem to be the problem.

Re: lines/cracks through points?

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 8:47 pm
by ITAK
While you wait for the fix, you can add a "Sketch" effect to a stroke.

Re: lines/cracks through points?

Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2015 12:48 pm
by Welsh Jester
I'm not sure Smith Micro recognize this as a problem, maybe some others could try and contact them if they can explain better?

Re: lines/cracks through points?

Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2015 2:13 pm
by slowtiger
Is it really a problem? It only shows when you zoom into the rendered image. Nobody does that on TV or screen.

Re: lines/cracks through points?

Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2015 10:11 pm
by Welsh Jester
slowtiger wrote:Is it really a problem? It only shows when you zoom into the rendered image. Nobody does that on TV or screen.
More of a minor issue I guess, but it seems support was right about the Anti Aliasing causing it, there are no cracks or anything odd happening at points if I click preview no Antialiasing.. but nobody is going to want to turn it off. Still wonder why it even happens though.