How to change the Anti-Aliasing Level

OR: something you can try when your Tagtool runs slow

Anti-aliasing is a method of smoothing images - without it, your drawings look pixelated, with jagged edges around the lines.

Here's a detail of a Tagtool drawing. The first image is without anti-aliasing, the second one has an anti-aliasing level of 1, and the third one has full anti-aliasing enabled (on a Geforce 9600 graphics card):

As you can see - a higher level of anti-aliasing means more smoothing, so even very fine lines look nice and clear.

When you use Tagtool, the software will try to use the highest level of anti-aliasing that your graphics card supports by default.

Unfortunately, anti-aliasing needs a good graphics card - with less powerful ones, it can make your Tagtool scene slow when there are a lot of drawings.

That's why we made it possible to choose a lesser level of anti-aliasing, as a compromise to make your Tagtool session run more fluently.

Here's how to specify the level of anti-aliasing:

Step 1:

Right-click on the “Tagtool Drawing” icon on your desktop and select “Properties”.

Step 2:

You should see the following dialogue:

Look for the text field “Target” - add the following text at the end:

-antialiasing:LEVEL

…where LEVEL is the level of anti-aliasing. Choose “0” for none, “1” for a little bit (a good compromise when you want to make Tagtool run faster), or you can try higher numbers.

For example, the full text for an antialiasing level of 1 (of course, the file path can be different on your computer):

“C:\Program Files\Nodekit\Nodekit.exe” -file:“save\Tagtool Drawing.tagproj” -stage:0 -antialiasing:1

Step 3:

Choose “Ok”

Step 4:

Start Tagtool by double-clicking the “Tagtool Drawing”-shortcut. Happy Tagtooling - hopefully everything will run smoother now, even when there are a lot of drawings!