Texture filtering: Difference between revisions

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*3D games look terrible.

*It's unfiltered pixels. You should know what to expect.

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~~| style="text-align: center;"|'''Nearest Neighbor with Mipmapping'''~~

| style="text-align: center;"|Exactly what it says on the tin: Nearest-neighbor filtering with mipmapping. Mipmapping is basically level of detail for textures. The farther away a texture is in a 3D space, the lower the resolution is. This can continue until the texture is completely flat.

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*Even faster than regular nearest neighbor.

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*3D games look terrible.

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| style="text-align: center;"|'''Bilinear'''

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*2D games look atrocious.

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~~| style="text-align: center;"|'''Anisotropic'''~~

| style="text-align: center;"|Uses oddly-shaped copies of texture parts in order to smooth out pixelated/blurred edges in nearest neighbor/linear filtered images. Higher sample amounts (e.g. 4x, 8x, 16x) will shape the textures into more complex shapes as needed.

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*Looks much better than just linear filtering for 3D games.

*Can be used alongside other filters and scaling algorithms for even smoother-looking textures.

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*High sample amounts are system-intensive.

*Not recommended for 2D games.

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| style="text-align: center;"|'''HQx'''

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 *3D games look terrible.
 *It's unfiltered pixels. You should know what to expect.
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-| style="text-align: center;"|'''Nearest Neighbor with Mipmapping'''
-| style="text-align: center;"|Exactly what it says on the tin: Nearest-neighbor filtering with mipmapping. Mipmapping is basically level of detail for textures. The farther away a texture is in a 3D space, the lower the resolution is. This can continue until the texture is completely flat.
-| style="text-align: center;"|
-*Even faster than regular nearest neighbor.
-| style="text-align: center;"|
-*3D games look terrible.
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 | style="text-align: center;"|'''Bilinear'''
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 | style="text-align: center;"|
 *2D games look atrocious.
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-| style="text-align: center;"|'''Anisotropic'''
-| style="text-align: center;"|Uses oddly-shaped copies of texture parts in order to smooth out pixelated/blurred edges in nearest neighbor/linear filtered images. Higher sample amounts (e.g. 4x, 8x, 16x) will shape the textures into more complex shapes as needed.
-| style="text-align: center;"|
-*Looks much better than just linear filtering for 3D games.
-*Can be used alongside other filters and scaling algorithms for even smoother-looking textures.
-| style="text-align: center;"|
-*High sample amounts are system-intensive.
-*Not recommended for 2D games.
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 | style="text-align: center;"|'''HQx'''