3 replies to this topic

[mollekake]

Hello fellas.

I want my game to have old-school graphics. and i figure the easiest way would be to create the sprites in 8-bit and scale it up.

But how do i scale it without it going all blurry?

i'm working in visual studio 2010 c#.

[Nercury]

Are you using XNA?

 

I did a quick search on google "xna texture filtering" and this seems to be your answer:

 

http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/6820/how-do-i-disable-texture-filtering-for-sprite-scaling-in-xna-4-0

 

You need to set the sampler state. The default for SpriteBatch is SamplerState.LinearClamp (ie: linear interpolation - the smooth/blurry one).

Choose one of the SpriteBatch.Begin calls that takes a SamplerState and pass inSamplerState.PointClamp (selects the pixel at that precice "point").

[mollekake]

Oh, thanks! But i don't understand what i'm supposed to do with my spritebatch. I'm a bit new to this.

[Racoonacoon]

You should be able to set the texture filter to point to get the desired result.

 

 

 

Oh, thanks! But i don't understand what i'm supposed to do with my spritebatch. I'm a bit new to this.

 

The spritebatch Begin call takes several parameters. One of these parameters a SamplerState. Pass in SamplerState.PointClamp.

 

It would look something like this:

 

spriteBatch.Begin(SpriteSortMode.Deferred, BlendState.Alpha, SamplerState.PointClamp, null, null);

 

//Draw all the sprites you want to have the 'old-school' look.

 

spriteBatch.End();

 

 

I'm assuming you are working in XNA 4.0.