On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 17:54:40 +0100, Rune wrote:
> "Warp" wrote:
>>   It's probably possible, but thought to be unnecessary.
> 
> Yet it's a known fact that things very close to the focal point are jaggy.
> 
> And thinking about it, just like normally, the AA would only kick in where
> necessary, so using normal AA settings together with focal blur would
> probably only activate the AA on small amounts of the pixels, thus meaning
> that it wouldn't even be much slower. (It's logical, I just didn't realize
> it before.) I think it should be allowed. This is a feature request!

I think it's not allowed because the render loop for focal blur is a different
loop than the one for AA.  That's mostly historical, but it'd be hard to 
change.

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