Smooth pixels shader?

[Outcast]

I know many games that are based on pixel graphics often lets the player choose in the option if they want to apply some sort of "smoothing" effect on the pixels. Is there any such effect that can be applied in mmf? Like a shader on a layer that is above everything else?

A bit like this: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...elVSsmotth.png

[loglady]

Mother of mercy! \o/

Thanks for sharing!!!!!!!!

[Outcast]

This may interest you.

That looks cool! But how do I use it properly? I tried it but I only got strange results :s

[MuddyMole]

If I remember right, it uses the contents of the object / layer / frame to which it is applied.
If you want it to use the background instead, you should be able to just open the .fx file and replace "img" with "bkd".

[happygreenfrog]

If I remember right, it uses the contents of the object / layer / frame to which it is applied.
If you want it to use the background instead, you should be able to just open the .fx file and replace "img" with "bkd".

That isn't what he meant. I can't get it to work either. It only makes things double-sized for me, no matter what you set the image size to be.

[MuddyMole]

Of course it does - it's a Scale2x filter.

[Outcast]

It would be really helpful if someone could upload an example of how to use it correctly

[happygreenfrog]

Of course it does - it's a Scale2x filter.

Yes, but you setting the size higher makes the scaled image higher quality. Also, this version of Scale2x doesn't seem to just scale things to be double the original size, it seems to allow you to scale anything smoothly.

[MuddyMole]

No. You only have to set the size because pixel shaders are resolution-independent. That other version is also 2x, but by applying it twice (once to the foreground and once to the background) it can do 4x - that's all. None of these pixel art scaling algorithms work with an arbitrary scaling factor.
If all you want is anti-aliased resizing, there are tons of different ways to do that in MMF2 (shaders, extensions, built-in options, etc) - but it looks crap, so I wouldn't bother.