And please, why even discuss 8xMSAA > MLAA? As far as I know, 8xMSAA is not even an option on consoles, so a comparison is useless, IMO.
And please, devs now start to use custom AA solutions even on your mighty PC...there must be a logic reason for this, right?
This'll be my last post about it here. I understand perfectly fine that MLAA is a performance compromise.
But that wasn't what I was looking at. I was looking at it purely from an IQ standpoint. And what I saw, at least in LBP2 wasn't anywhere near the hype that has been built up here.
Yes, I also realize that certain forms of custom AA (sometimes similar to MLAA) are making their way to the PC platform also. And that's great. I absolutely love that companies are experimenting with AA. Some form of AA is always better than no AA, IMO. Although a case could be made that Quincunx actually makes things worse.
However, with that said. In most cases, MLAA or other Custom AA modes that make it to PC have focused more on performance than IQ, and thus almost univerally look worse than standard box MSAA. From a performance aspect, it's a win if you have a slow comp or a slow GPU (sub 75 USD one). From the perspective on No in game AA versus some form of in game AA, it's a win. From a purely IQ standpoint, it's generally a loss.
And as Shifty pointed out, what's available on PC now will likely be available on consoles later. But again, that wasn't where I was coming from when looking at that.
And it wasn't about PC versus console. The main reason I even brought up PC was because I can't think of a single console game that has good AA. And when I mean good AA, I mean AA such that my eyes aren't constantly drawn to crawling jaggies here or there. But that's nothing against consoles. Consoles as you pointed out don't have the same horsepower available to PCs. That's fine.
So again. The AA in LBP2 was good. Less jaggies is always better, even if they are still there in abundance (although if you are less sensitive to them, then you might not even see them). But the AA isn't nearly as good as all the hype for MLAA has lead me to believe. Does that mean I think MLAA sucks? Far from it. It just means it's not as good as people in the forums is hyping it up to be. That doesn't prevent it from being a good solution on consoles however.
And that last paragraph was my entire point.
Anyway, that'll be the last post on that in this thread. If people still want to discuss it, they can always PM me so as not to go too far off topic here.
Regards,
SB
