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Hi,
I have an interesting problem with FSAA. Because a picture is worth a thousand words, I attach three screenshots.
Basically, I have static geometry (trees) and they have fake shadows (those are actually quads with semitransparent textures - tree "shadow"). These fake shadows have depth_write off, so they are displayed even there is (for example) terrain, which would otherwise cut the quads. This works absolutely fine and I am happy with the results.

The problem appeared when I had turned on FSAA - for higher FSAA values, the shadows are almost not displayed at all and for lower values, parts of shadows are "dotted".
Can somebody tell me what is wrong and how to avoid this?

Thank you in advance.

Bit surprised that noone has ideas about this

I don't have a clue on solving this one. But, as you're having some problems with 1.7 (although I believe you already measured the pros-and-cons of that) is there any big reason to not update to use some more up-to-date Ogre's version? (I have 1.9 or 1.10 in mind). This way you can have more help from Ogre developers than using the old 1.7.x version.

Hi Farrer,
I would love to upgrade to 2.0 but unfortunately I am using Mogre, for which the latest stable version is 1.7.4. That's the reason why I have to stick to this version:-/

I was playing with this for quite some time and it seems like the problem was in alpha_rejection property in tree shadow material. Once I removed this property if FSAA > 0, it looked as it should.