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Mysterydip
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When I use the following code, my textures appear blurry or antialiased on the faces of the mesh:
CreateObjectFromMeshMemblock(tbox,tMem)
SetImageMinFilter(imgAtlas,0)
SetImageMagFilter(imgAtlas,0)
SetObjectImage(tbox,imgAtlas,0)
SetObjectScale(tbox,MAPSCALE,MAPSCALE,MAPSCALE)
How do I get it to use blocky pixels instead of a linear filter, and why isn't min/mag filter working?
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Posted: 21st Oct 2021 23:02 Edited at: 21st Oct 2021 23:03
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Try with SetSpriteSnap()

Edit, oh for 3D, soz my bad, mag filters should do it yeah
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Try SetGenerateMipmaps()
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Posted: 22nd Oct 2021 13:38 Edited at: 22nd Oct 2021 13:44
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I put in the following in the initialization:
SetGenerateMipmaps(1)
SetAntialiasMode(0)
SetDefaultMagFilter(0)
SetDefaultMinFilter(0)
But I see no change.
My textures are 16x16. Is there some arbitrary minimum for textures?
I tried it both as an individual 16x16 image, and as a 256x256 image using UV coords to select one or a couple. The result is like the attached image:


It looks like if I up my texture to 256x256, then it's sharp. But it seems silly to arbitrarily increase textures 16 times. Does AppGameKit do this internally and that's the issue? I have hundreds of textures I want to use and was trying to keep overall file size and memory usage low.

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Posted: 22nd Oct 2021 14:39 Edited at: 22nd Oct 2021 14:52
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16x16 on a 3D model .....

Yeah, your texture is way to small, what size is your model?

I found the very least you can get away with is at least 512x512 and even that looks naff with still some blurring, ok for mobile at a distance but get up close like in your screencap and you are not going to see anything nice

You could try reducing the texture scale that might help (SetObjectUVScale) set it to 0.1 on all axis and go from there to find an acceptable stretch value (it might help, not sure but worth a try)

Edit: I see you are setting object scale, try setting the UV scale the same as the object scale.
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Posted: 22nd Oct 2021 15:07 Edited at: 22nd Oct 2021 15:20
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UV scaling didn't seem to affect it, but like you said probably too low of a resolution.
It's only a 3D model in the most basic sense, just 1x1 unit panes (scaled up) to make sides of a cube, each side with their own texture.
I'm seeing if I can produce an effect like an old raycasting game using hardware acceleration.
I understand the need for larger textures if I was doing something with more than 2 triangles.
I think I found an acceptable compromise at 64x64.
I don't know much about shaders, but maybe I can use one to turn off the linear filtering?
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16x16 textures seem to work fine here with no blurring after a quick test. I don't know if this is the issue, but make sure you're calling SetDefaultMinFilter(0) and SetDefaultMagFilter(0) before loading the texture images, as it won't apply to images that have already been loaded.



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I just made a new project with just your code, and it's still blurry.

I just tried HTML5 export, and it appears properly.

I'm on Linux, maybe it's the AppGameKit virtual machine?
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Hmm, could be, I'm on Windows. Out of curiosity, does it make any difference if you use the OpenGL renderer?

#renderer "Basic"
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Yes! That removed the blur:
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What Graphics Hardware do you have?
I ask because you might've changed (or it could be default behaviour) in the graphics drivers that are overriding what AppGameKit is setting.
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It's a basic laptop with 3rd gen Intel embedded graphics (i915 chipset). Running debian/ubuntu.
I don't recall doing any special graphics settings (I've mostly left it vanilla), but I don't know if the distro itself has some presets.
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Its the Vulcan renderer, I just browsed through a bunch of posts and it seems some games have this issue with Vulcan under Linux, something to do with the image compression from what I can gather
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Aha, thanks for the info!
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No Problem, I wonder if this should get reported ..... Nomad??

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Posted: 24th Oct 2021 02:39 Edited at: 24th Oct 2021 02:57
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i've just skimmed the above but THIS?

it still exists but only under Linux? if so, add it to the repo and include that fact.

what happens if you use SetImageMin/MagFilter individually vs default? nmd, going back and i see that's where you started.
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Not sure on that one, I cant test, I have no access to Linux and my GPU does not support Vulcan but it does appear that the issue still persists, I'll refrain from posting bug reports for things I can not test or verify

@Mysterydip, can you add your info the existing bug report, maybe link to this thread
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Posted: 24th Oct 2021 03:41 Edited at: 24th Oct 2021 03:56
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Quote: "can you add your info the existing bug report"

no. it needs a new one. ideally, the individual experiencing the issue reports it so there can be follow-up.
i know that closed issue is windows (the thread referenced was originally posted in Windows and fubarpk moved it)

@Mysterydip, if you could add it, please do. and, it wasn't mentioned above but making sure that you are using the most-current version of studio? drivers, etc?

if so, include all specs in the issue, if you would.
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Just checked it with the latest (I was running the release from earlier this year) and the problem persists. I'll start a ticket, thanks!
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Posted: 25th Oct 2021 13:46 Edited at: 25th Oct 2021 14:23
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https://github.com/TheGameCreators/AGK-Studio/issues/897

added [Linux] to the thread title as it seems specific to Linux
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