Adding a 1-pixel border around your sprite textures should be enough in Direct3D as well (I'm not 100% sure on this btw [smile])

The only thing I can think of is that if you are using the D3DXSprite interface and not making sure to pass it a RECT that reflects the added pixel border you would still be facing the same bleeding problems. The same could be said for screen-aligned quads and their texture coords.

All the best,
ViLiO

Quote:Original post by JonWoyame
Sorry if I was unclear, but I'm actually trying to get rid of the border thats around the sprites.

The border is a result of the opaque color blending with the transparent background color when linear filtering is used.

Assuming i'm still not misunderstanding on this [wink] ....i'll expand on what I had said previously.

I am suggesting that in your paint program you add a 1-pixel border around your texture (ie the edge colour and alpha is extended out by 1 pixel in all directions). Then you shift your texture coords (or RECT for D3DXSprite) in by one pixel. This now means that when filtering, the outmost pixels of your sprite will get filtered with the added 1-pixel border.

Hope this helps, [smile]
ViLiO

Ok, diagramatics time [lol]

Let's say we have a sprite ..we'll call him whiskers [wink]

When whiskers is filtered, the outer ring of pixels will get filtered with some full black opaque pixels (assuming this is correct for Direct3D [smile])
This will of course cause some artifacts as we want to have the white pixels transparent.

One solution is to add a border (or padding) of pixels around the outside of the sprite (this can be done in your paint program or you can modify the image yourself when you load it as a texture into Direct3D).
Here's one we prepared earlier ...


Now if we were to load and use this texture exactly as before the artifacts would still be there as the outer ring of white pixels would still be getting filtered with some black ones. So the solution is to shift your uv coords in by 1 pixel on all sides
Like so....


This now means that that very outer ring of pixels will still get filtered with some black ones, but they wont be part of out visible texture. And the ring of pixels just inside our uv area (the red line) will have valid neighbouring pixels all around them so zero artifacts [grin]

As I said this is one solution, there are others [wink] ...

You could just shift the uv coords in by half a pixel without adding any padding pixels ..this works but can still lead to the same artifacts problems when you scale sprites

or

You could clamp the texture ...this won't work if you are wanting to have more than one sprite per texture (sprite sheets)

Seriously hope this helps [lol]
ViLiO

[Edited by - ViLiO on May 19, 2006 4:33:00 PM]

Quote:Original post by JonWoyame
I shouldn't really say "border", it is a black outline around the image contents. For example, I have a hand cursor texture, and the cursor has a dark outline around it because it is blending with the neighboring black pixels which have an alpha of 0.

Oh, do you mean something like ..
?
...and you don't want the white pointer to have a dark border around it when filtering and alpha-blending?

Cause if that is the case then adding the padding could be done around the pointer itself and not the edges of the whole texture. You could take the colour from a neighbouring light-coloured point pixel and the alpha value from a neighbouring dark mask pixel and it would probably work.

If this ain't it then maybe you should provide some screenshots yourself [wink]

All the best,
ViLiO