Slime wrote:
> Are you using bilinear, trilinear, or anisotropic filtering? 

I'm using XNA, which is pretty high-level w.r.t. this stuff. So, briefly, "I 
dunno."   The flag I have trivial control over simply says whether to 
generate the mipmaps at compile time or not.

> If you're 
> looking head-on, then anisotropic won't help, but it still uses the 
> highest mip level that has a *lower* resolution than the actual pixels, 
> so that it only has to sample once per pixel. This will be most 
> noticeable if you're using bilinear and not trilinear.

Hmmm. OK. So if I get the size on screen to be slightly larger than the size 
in the actual texture file, I should not see a problem, right?

> I guess what I'm saying is that you can expect a *little* blurriness 
> from the mip filtering, but not more than one mip level worth.

OK. I don't think it's that much blurry. Just ... noticable if you know what 
it should look like.

> Screenshots would help to tell if it's normal or not.

I think I've learned how to do this, yes. I'll give it a go when I get back 
on the project and ask again.

Thanks for the input!

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    C# - a language whose greatest drawback
    is that its best implementation comes
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