PLD can save you time, depending on the render. It uses data from the
edges of your models and realigns them for the final image. The higher you set the PLD,
the more calculations will be done. You??™ll use different antialias settings throughout the
projects in this book to see how they differ.
Figure 5.21 You can choose from a range of antialiasing settings, from none at all to
Enhanced Extreme.
The higher the antialiasing setting, the more LightWave will clean and smooth your polygon
edges. Of course, higher values mean added rendering time. Any of the Enhanced
antialiasing settings smoothes your image at the subpixel level, which takes a bit more
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time to render, but it produces better results. In most cases, Medium to Enhanced
Medium antialiasing yields great results. The Reconstruction Filter is one more way that
LightWave v9 can produce top-notch renders by using sophisticated calculations to
reconstruct the data for the final image.
Adaptive Sampling
Although you can set up an antialiasing routine for your renders, you still have to tell
LightWave how it should be applied.
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