New soft image filters!

#1: Normal stretch (nearest neighbor)

#2: Bilinear stretch

#3: Reverse bilinear stretch

#4: Soft bilinear

#5: Super sampled dithering

This one's going to be interesting

Done in about 2 passes

Hmmm

The soft bilinear looks pretty good NickK...Not as sharp as the normal stretch, but with just the right amount of filtering to blur out the sprites.....Perhaps another sample using a 2D sprite heavy game...

Re: Hmmm

Originally posted by Dark Watcher
The soft bilinear looks pretty good NickK...Not as sharp as the normal stretch, but with just the right amount of filtering to blur out the sprites.....Perhaps another sample using a 2D sprite heavy game...

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Ok, I will be doing that sometime

Hmmmmmm

Definately looking good though...

keep up the great work nickk!
i think that soft bilinear looks really sweet. the regular bilinear looks good, and the super sampled dithering looks pretty good in comparison to normal scanlines.
any comments as to a performance hit when using filters? i use a p2 266 laptop most of the time and can only play in soft on it so that would be the biggest issue.

great work NickK! the soft bilinear looks quite nice .. some of the other one's give me a headache!

Here you go, Dark Watcher.. I don't know if this is what you meant, though

Originally posted by Bgnome
keep up the great work nickk!
i think that soft bilinear looks really sweet. the regular bilinear looks good, and the super sampled dithering looks pretty good in comparison to normal scanlines.
any comments as to a performance hit when using filters? i use a p2 266 laptop most of the time and can only play in soft on it so that would be the biggest issue.

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It depends on which one you'd want to use
I've got the soft bilinear running very fast at the moment, but I'm not sure of the performance of the bilinear stretch yet. I'd also need to make the dithering filter a bit faster for real time use in that situation since it was designed for use in still image processing.

Originally posted by Xeven
great work NickK! the soft bilinear looks quite nice .. some of the other one's give me a headache!

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Good thing I won't be using the majority of the distortion-type filters

Originally posted by NickK


It depends on which one you'd want to use
I've got the soft bilinear running very fast at the moment, but I'm not sure of the performance of the bilinear stretch yet. I'd also need to make the dithering filter a bit faster for real time use in that situation since it was designed for use in still image processing.

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that is some seriously kick ass news

Hmmm

Yup...that was it ..nothing like a bunch of sprites to prove a point....

Would be interesting to see Soft Bilinear on Valkyrie Profile...heavy 2D sprite use and rendered backdrops....

Thanks NickK!!

I also like the soft bilinear a lot. Looks really nice.

huh? what happened with this pic?