Hi,

I’m just getting into Away3D (enjoying it too!) but I’m having a bit of an issue with blurry textures. I’ve been searching for a fix but nothing so far seems to do the trick.

I’m trying to make a pixel-art style texture on some objects and, even with mipmapping and smoothing disabled, they just don’t look right. The attached image shows a sample texture on the left with its 3D representation on the right. I want to keep the sharp pixel edge look. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Ant

hi

not so shure myself, but did you try changing the antiAlias ?

Hi. Yes I’ve tried antiAlias and a few random lens properties inside the camera - all to no avail.

Thanks though, I’m open to any more suggestions along those lines if you have them

whats the texture size ?
did you try very big vs very small ?

It’s 64x64. I’m planning on their being a LOT of small texture, low poly models when it’s finished, so I need to keep sizes down really. I tried it at 256x256 and there was no difference.

It’s an odd one! I’m a bit stumped. I’m no 3D expert but I thought it’d simply be the mipmap property. It looks as intended when I disable it in Cinema 4D at least

That looks very odd. Can you upload a test SWF somewhere so that other Forums users can confirm that it looks the same everywhere and not just on your machine?

Hi, thanks for the help. You’ve made me stumble across the source of the problem while I was trying to set up the upload. I think the Mesh is using the material directly from the .dae file (it’s the same as the one I loaded in so I never noticed) rather than using the one I’m attempting to apply after an AssetEvent.MESH_COMPLETE.

Is there a direct way to replace the material in a Loader3D? A search gave me the following but it’s not working:

for (var i=0;i

Turns out it works just fine if I use a .3ds file. I’ll try to avoid Collada I guess.

Thanks again for prompting me to find the problem and for all your work on Away3D in general

Sounds like a bug in the collada parser, but you should rarely use collada anyway so if you got it to work with 3DS I suggest you stick with that.

Seems like the texture is seted as <2D,linear> in the shader so the pixels are interpolated and the GPU forces this smoothed effect. For no smoothing, the texture should be <2D,nearest>

Try using a TextureMaterial with the smoothing property seted to false.

Good Luck!