Anti-aliasing broken?

[adamt]

my current project seems to be highlighting a lot of problems within Smoke 2017...I have even tried creating a new user profile in case the issues were user related.

Currently I am unable to select a software Anti-aliasing level other than 1. If i select 2 or above, the viewer goes almost blank. All that remains visible is the background image feeding the CFX Action node. This happens whether or not i have HWAA selected.

If i select HWAA and switch SWAA to 1 then the output from the Action looks great....

BUT
i am outputting Comp, Z Depth and Alpha channels from Action, and when i combine these into a Depth of Field node, i can get really nice DOF but the anti-aliasing on my images gets broken.

Looking at the Matte channel going into DOF node - edges look perfect, the matte output from the same node looks very steppy and jagged on foreground objects.

Any advice?
please?

[adamt · Accepted solution]

tech support have been checking the project setups, and have confirmed they were able to reproduce the HWAA/SWAA issue - where a setting above 1 caused the objects in Action to vanish. Its logged as a bug.

The DOF isue appears to be somethig different, but as yet i have not informed what it might be caused by, or how to resolve it.