Antialiasing Error in Setting Opacity of vtkTexturedSphereSource

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I try to visualize some 3d scatter using vtkTexturedSphereSource. Everything seems well when I using RenderWindow.SetMultiSamples(12) to anti-aliasing as the users-guide commend. But when I set opacity by RenderWindow.SetMultiSamples(12), the sphere become semitransparent, and the antialiasing effect is disappeared. Second, when I add shadow for these sphere and set the opacity to less than 1, all of the sphere is vanished. I don’t know where the question is. The code to set shadow as follow:

    shadows = vtk.vtkShadowMapPass()
    seq = vtk.vtkSequencePass()

    passes = vtk.vtkRenderPassCollection()
    passes.AddItem(shadows.GetShadowMapBakerPass())
    passes.AddItem(shadows)
    seq.SetPasses(passes)
    self.CameraPass = vtk.vtkCameraPass()
    self.CameraPass.SetDelegatePass(seq)

    self.Renderer.SetPass(self.CameraPass)

Thanks!

Opacity = 1:

NoOpacity
NoOpacity786×852 203 KB

Opacity = 0.3 and not set the shadow:

Opacity
Opacity767×845 95.5 KB

2

When I set Render.SetUseFXAA(true), the semitransparent sphere antialiasing well!

3

Did you made the spheres work under shadows?