Slime wrote:
>  > 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.
> 
> Oh, OK. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb976075.aspx seems to 
> describe some texture filtering options for XNA. 

Yeah, that's in the sampling. Since I'm just using the default effects right 
now (an "effect" being a chunk of graphics pipeline code, vertex and pixel 
shaders) I'm not certain what technique it might be using.  I would have to 
rewrite that (which I plan to eventually do anyway if I can think of how to 
make the actual gameplay interesting ;-), so I'll try different ones then.

> Try
> TextureFilter.Anisotropic. I'm not sure if TextureFilter.Linear is smart 
> enough to do trilinear (which lerps between the mip maps), and I've 
> never heard of what they're describing TextureFilter.PyramidalQuad or 
> TextureFilter.GaussianQuad to be.

I'll do that. It sounds like the quad filters are different weightings on 
the lerping, sort of like an AA approach.

> off, resulting in some blurriness. It's just usually not enough to worry 
> about.

OK. I'll have to look again, because it seemed ... obviously blurry to me. 
I'll see about getting some screen shots, probably some time next week at 
the earliest.

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