No matter what I do, when I begin a render, in render options it says my
antialiasing is turned off.

For example, I began a render with

+A0.3 +AM2 +R3 +Q11

and render options are as follows:


Render Options
  Quality:  9
  Bounding boxes.......On   Bounding threshold: 3
  Antialiasing.........Off


Am I doing something wrong?

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Am 03.06.2012 20:55, schrieb taftj:
> No matter what I do, when I begin a render, in render options it says my
> antialiasing is turned off.
>
> For example, I began a render with
>
> +A0.3 +AM2 +R3 +Q11
>
> and render options are as follows:
>
>
> Render Options
>    Quality:  9
>    Bounding boxes.......On   Bounding threshold: 3
>    Antialiasing.........Off
>
>
> Am I doing something wrong?

Apparently. Are you starting the render via an .ini file? If so, maybe 
that .ini file turns off anti-aliasing.

Which version of POV-Ray are you using?

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clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Am 03.06.2012 20:55, schrieb taftj:
> > No matter what I do, when I begin a render, in render options it says my
> > antialiasing is turned off.
> >
> > For example, I began a render with
> >
> > +A0.3 +AM2 +R3 +Q11
> >
> > and render options are as follows:
> >
> >
> > Render Options
> >    Quality:  9
> >    Bounding boxes.......On   Bounding threshold: 3
> >    Antialiasing.........Off
> >
> >
> > Am I doing something wrong?
>
> Apparently. Are you starting the render via an .ini file? If so, maybe
> that .ini file turns off anti-aliasing.
>
> Which version of POV-Ray are you using?


It's version 3.7 RC5.  I'm starting it from command line.

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Am 03.06.2012 22:29, schrieb taftj:
> clipka<ano### [at] anonymousorg>  wrote:
>> Am 03.06.2012 20:55, schrieb taftj:
>>> No matter what I do, when I begin a render, in render options it says my
>>> antialiasing is turned off.
>>>
>>> For example, I began a render with
>>>
>>> +A0.3 +AM2 +R3 +Q11
>>>
>>> and render options are as follows:
>>>
>>>
>>> Render Options
>>>     Quality:  9
>>>     Bounding boxes.......On   Bounding threshold: 3
>>>     Antialiasing.........Off
>>>
>>>
>>> Am I doing something wrong?
>>
>> Apparently. Are you starting the render via an .ini file? If so, maybe
>> that .ini file turns off anti-aliasing.
>>
>> Which version of POV-Ray are you using?
>
>
> It's version 3.7 RC5.  I'm starting it from command line.

Quite odd. What operating system?

Can you post the complete message output?

What happens if you /do/ use an .ini file?

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clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Am 03.06.2012 22:29, schrieb taftj:
> > clipka<ano### [at] anonymousorg>  wrote:
> >> Am 03.06.2012 20:55, schrieb taftj:
> >>> No matter what I do, when I begin a render, in render options it says my
> >>> antialiasing is turned off.
> >>>
> >>> For example, I began a render with
> >>>
> >>> +A0.3 +AM2 +R3 +Q11
> >>>
> >>> and render options are as follows:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Render Options
> >>>     Quality:  9
> >>>     Bounding boxes.......On   Bounding threshold: 3
> >>>     Antialiasing.........Off
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Am I doing something wrong?
> >>
> >> Apparently. Are you starting the render via an .ini file? If so, maybe
> >> that .ini file turns off anti-aliasing.
> >>
> >> Which version of POV-Ray are you using?
> >
> >
> > It's version 3.7 RC5.  I'm starting it from command line.
>
> Quite odd. What operating system?
>
> Can you post the complete message output?
>
> What happens if you /do/ use an .ini file?

my OS is LinuxMint 64-bit.  Here is the entire output.  I'll try with an .ini
file after the current render has finished.


$ povray +H2000 +W3200+A0.3 +AM2 +R3 +Q11 helices.pov

povray: This is a RELEASE CANDIDATE version of POV-Ray. General distribution is
discouraged.
Persistence of Vision(tm) Ray Tracer Version 3.7.0.RC5 (g++ 4.6 @
 x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)
This is a release candidate of POV-Ray version 3.7.0.
General distribution is strongly discouraged.

POV-Ray is based on DKBTrace 2.12 by David K. Buck & Aaron A. Collins
Copyright 1991-2003 Persistence of Vision Team
Copyright 2003-2011 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.

Primary POV-Ray 3.7 Architects/Developers: (Alphabetically)
  Chris Cason         Thorsten Froehlich  Christoph Lipka

With Assistance From: (Alphabetically)
  Nicolas Calimet     James Holsenback    Christoph Hormann   Nathan Kopp
  Juha Nieminen

Past Contributors: (Alphabetically)
  Steve Anger         Eric Barish         Dieter Bayer        David K. Buck
  Nicolas Calimet     Chris Cason         Aaron A. Collins    Chris Dailey
  Steve Demlow        Andreas Dilger      Alexander Enzmann   Dan Farmer
  Thorsten Froehlich  Mark Gordon         James Holsenback    Christoph Hormann
  Mike Hough          Chris Huff          Kari Kivisalo       Nathan Kopp
  Lutz Kretzschmar    Christoph Lipka     Jochen Lippert      Pascal Massimino
  Jim McElhiney       Douglas Muir        Juha Nieminen       Ron Parker
  Bill Pulver         Eduard Schwan       Wlodzimierz Skiba   Robert Skinner
  Yvo Smellenbergh    Zsolt Szalavari     Scott Taylor        Massimo Valentini
  Timothy Wegner      Drew Wells          Chris Young

Other contributors are listed in the documentation.

Support libraries used by POV-Ray:
  ZLib 1.2.3.4, Copyright 1995-1998 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler
  LibPNG 1.2.46, Copyright 1998-2002 Glenn Randers-Pehrson
  LibJPEG 80, Copyright 1998 Thomas G. Lane
  LibTIFF 3.9.5, Copyright 1988-1997 Sam Leffler, 1991-1997 SGI
  Boost 1.46, http://www.boost.org/

Parser Options
  Input file: helices.pov
  Remove bounds........On
  Split unions.........Off
  Library paths:
    /usr/local/share/povray-3.7
    /usr/local/share/povray-3.7/ini
    /usr/local/share/povray-3.7/include
  Clock value:    0.000  (Animation off)
Image Output Options
  Image resolution.....3200 by 2000 (rows 1 to 2000, columns 1 to 3200).
  Output file..........helices.png, 24 bpp PNG
  Dithering............Off
  Graphic display......On  (gamma: sRGB)
  Mosaic preview.......Off
  Continued trace......Off
Information Output Options
  All Streams to console..........On
  Debug Stream to console.........On
  Fatal Stream to console.........On
  Render Stream to console........On
  Statistics Stream to console....On
  Warning Stream to console.......On
==== [Parsing...] ==========================================================
Possible Parse Error: assumed_gamma not specified in this POV-Ray 3.7 or later
 scene. Future versions of POV-Ray may consider this a fatal error. To avoid
 this warning, explicitly specify 'assumed_gamma 1.0' in the global_settings
 section. See the documentation for more details.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Parser Statistics
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Finite Objects:          104
Infinite Objects:          1
Light Sources:             1
Total:                   106
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Parser Time
  Parse Time:       0 hours  0 minutes  0 seconds (0.036 seconds)
              using 1 thread(s) with 0.029 CPU-seconds total
  Bounding Time:    0 hours  0 minutes  0 seconds (0.001 seconds)
              using 1 thread(s) with 0.000 CPU-seconds total
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Render Options
  Quality:  9
  Bounding boxes.......On   Bounding threshold: 3
  Antialiasing.........Off
==== [Rendering...] ========================================================

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grrrr... I'm an idiot.  It was the lack of space before +A.

sorry to have wasted your time.

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