Actually I`m aiming towards the best texturing filtering that provides the most acurate/realistic effect upon rendering. curently I use

glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D,GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER,GL_LINEAR);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D,GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER,GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR);

Also meaning that I have mipmaps. Upon all that it seems that the anisotropic filtering is the best way around all this although it might consume some perormance(never tested it against fps rate, but it was kind of fast). So at 8x anisotropic filtering everything looks mighty good but not all cards have that so a general alternative way must exist. What do you use/What is the best ?

I personally use GL_LINEAR for both parameter.

Now i''ve got a question too, is there a filter that uses contrast in the way it filter the texture at a distance ?
For example, if i''d have a white texture with black dots, all 1 pixel in size. Is there a filter that makes these dots visible just a little longer than for example GL_NEAREST and then maybe combining pixel colors?
I am not sure but this could be the way mipmapping works, i never really tried.
I hope i am clear.

Thanks in advance, TP

cippyboy: if you want it to work with all cards you''ve to use some of the standard openGL filters like GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR.
Why not just use anisotropic filtering if it''s available and else use GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR?

Living Monstrosity: I don''t think such a filter exists in any opengl extension...
GL_NEAREST should always produce white and black pixels and no gray pixels in your example.

[ga] I already use that "standard" stuff, and know what nearest and linear imply all together but... I wanted an example of a professional combination... I playes Serious Sam 2 the other day and it had some interesting options in advanced rendering menu, like how textures are filtered(blured/sharped it wrote) and when there`s a lot of blur the game looks like crap... also a lot of sharpness gives some spikes to the edges and most of the textures
[Living Monstrosity] I guess you should try mipmapping use my setting and then come back with youre problem