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Choosing viewport shading modes

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Choosing viewport shading modes

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- [Instructor] The nitrous viewport display technology gives us many controls to determine the look of the rendering in the viewport. The first thing you'll want to look in to is the level of anti-aliasing. And that primarily deals with the sharpness of wireframes and icons such as these lights. We do want to anti-alias these in order to minimize eye strain. We can do that from the viewport configuration dialog. And one way to access that is through the viewport menus. On the very far left of the viewport menus is a plus sign. That's the so called general menu. Click that plus sign. And then go to Configure Viewports. In the Viewport Configuration dialog, in the Display Performance tab. We can increase the anti-aliasing quality. You can usually bring that up to it's maximum of eight times. And when we click OK here, watch what happens to the wireframes. They all just got a lot softer and easier to look at.…

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