glReadPixels() doesn't return an Anti-aliased picture

Question

When I render my scene to the screen, the scene uses a _MultiSampling Anti-Aliasing 8x; it's ok.

But I want to read to the pixel buffers through glReadPixels(), I have a Aliased-Image with Aliased lines. It doesn't use the 8x MSAA.

Code:

glReadPixels(0,0, w, h, GL_BGRA_EXT, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, (void*)pixels);

How do I access to the pixels buffer with the MSAA transformation (filter)?

glReadPixels doesn't have a special parameter.

Side Note: I would like to use the Opengl 1

Important Note: I use Qt 5.9's QOpenGLWidget class

`glReadPixels()` reads what you see on the screen. If it reads non-AA image, then your AA is not working. — ikleschenkov, Aug 07 '17 at 16:00
Do `glBindFramebuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, 0);` to read from the screen. — stark, Aug 07 '17 at 17:11

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 07 '17 at 18:03

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I take it that you're rendering to an off-screen renderbuffer or texture via FBO. The solution is to create a renderbuffer that uses a MSAA pixelformat. Antialiasing is not a postprocessing filter! (at least not in the form MSAA implements it).

answered Aug 07 '17 at 18:03

datenwolf

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