unless......when the Paint was wet you stuck toothpicks in it ! that would in turn mess with the Dynamics, in turn making that relevant.

When messing with my shadows I recall that White line appearing....the one around the outline of a person / object. I wish i could recall what setting it was in particular, but it is one of the settings you mess with when doing shadows. Don't think it was the blur setting...but I could make it come and go at will.

That is a straw man argument.

To talk about image quality without also mentioning shadows or draw distance is leaving out an important part of the process, but they're still irrelevant to this thread. This thread has nothing to do with the whole 'process', only anti-aliasing. Anisotropic filtering, while important to image quality, is irrelevant to this discussion.

cmon guys..... is this really necessary?

this entire thread is specifically asking about the FSAA setting..

nothing related to AF.... which also effect image quality but not at all in the same way...

which if you wanted to bring AF in.. i could bring in trilinear specifically and then take off with texture resolution, shadows, tree animations and anything else that could or could not be enabled/applied/sorted.

There is no end...

Stick to FSAA.. that was the original specific discussion, AF and FSAA have utterly nothing in common aside from improving image quality IF one can notice the differences. AF however has nearly zero impact on performance at maximum setting, where as FSAA has some form of impact, more significant as you crank it up. aside from that... no similarities/relation.

very much so, if you ask me!