filtering in a resized display

[Harry)))]

I posted about this in another thread but it's quite important for me so i'll make this thread in the hope to get a reply.

When the frame display is smaller (say, 1/2) of the size of the game's window, and "resize display to fill window" is ticked, on PC, this will scale the display up with a simple "nearest-neighbour" interpolation, ie, without any smooth filtering.
If the same app is run on an iOS device, the whole display will be filtered.

The reason it's important for me to be able to turn this off, is because I want to make some games at 1/2 the actual screen size and scale up, with a pixel art style.
The filtering applied on the device blurs all the edges of the graphics and makes the art look "fuzzy"

I trust someone will understand what i mean. I consider it very important to be able to disable this on iOS. Is there a way to do it in the xcode project maybe?

[Harry)))]

I don't know what the policy on this forum is regarding bumping threads, but i really don't want this topic to get buried without some kind of answer

[Anders]

I have researched this a bit but will need more time before I can give a definitive answer if this is possible or not

[Harry)))]

thanks for your effort Andos. The idea that it might just be outright impossible is very damning... No clean pixel art iOS games Sucks cause i developed quite a bit of a pixelart style game in MMF before i bought the iOS exporter, with the intention of porting it to that platform...

Fingers crossed that this can be done...

[Harry)))]

Also: After looking around a bit i came across a similar discussion on this thread

http://forums.toucharcade.com/archiv...p/t-71525.html

Some programmers there seem to be discussing the methods to switch it on or off. Is this info applicable to an MMF object or setting?

[Anders]

I found a way for it to scale without being smooth but for now it involves some manual code for you at the moment.
Currently the flag for 'antialiasing while resizing' property flag is disabled, but I will ask Yves to enable it for the next version.

To do this manually for now you can insert this line in Application/CRunViewController.m at line 31:
runView.layer.magnificationFilter = kCAFilterNearest;

This will make it all pixellated on a global basis but only if you use a small window size.

With the normal window size: I have also been looking into making it work only on a per object basis when you use the 'scale' action using the quality parameter. I don't know if-or-when this will be added.

[Anders]

I found a way for it to scale without being smooth but for now it involves some manual code for you at the moment.
Currently the flag for 'antialiasing while resizing' property flag is disabled, but I will ask Yves to enable it for the next version.

To do this manually for now you can insert this line in Application/CRunViewController.m at line 31:
runView.layer.magnificationFilter = kCAFilterNearest;

This will make it all pixellated on a global basis but only if you use a small window size.

With the normal window size: I have also been looking into making it work only on a per object basis when you use the 'scale' action using the quality parameter. I don't know if-or-when this will be added.

[Harry)))]

Very very awesome, Andos. You've been nothing but helpful the whole time I've posted here. I'm trying my best to give something back to the community where i am able, and I hope I can repay your attentiveness some day.