The Anti-aliasing function can be set in DIALux and with more parameters in POV-Ray. To edit a POV file you have to start the POV-Ray program first and then load the *.pov file created by DIALux. The following pictures are showing the same scene without smoothing edges, with the setting switched on in DIALux and with a higher level defined in POV-Ray. This is normally only necessary for small, detailed textures in big distances. Calculation time increases with the level of Anti-aliasing.
Fig. 456 Smoothing edges
After loading the POV file into the editor, the user can enter additional values for different parameters directly into the edit field in the top middle of the screen. The command for Anti-aliasing is +a followed by a number without a blank e.g. “+a0.001”. The lower this value is, the higher the smoothing is.
Fig. 457 POV-Ray for Windows
When the POV-Ray editor is started the user can always open the help by pressing F1 to get information for any command.
