Smoothing edges

[ruben01]

Hi we had some problems with sprites, where the borders where looking ugly so we made a tool that bleeds the colors of the opaque pixels into the transparent ones, the pixels that are not 100% transparent are not changed, but the transparent pixels get the color of the neighouring pixels. This fixes the interpolation error that usually happens in those pixels.

The tool does this the left image is the original one rendered over a red background, the middle one is the result with alpha disabled, and the right one is the result image rendered over a red background with alpha enabled.

The projects is available here: https://github.com/gemserk/imageprocessing and there is a runnable jar in the downloads section.

If you have any question feel free to ask.

[billbo]

Very nice. Looks similar to a bicubic interpolation. The linear interpolation goes a long way, but this looks like a pretty viable option. Thanks for the contribution.

[jasmyn]

@ruben01 Thanks a million for that utility, it's exactly what I've been needing. Such a chore to do this manually every time.

[vidjogamer]

Does anybody know how to set the TextureFilters on a TiledMap?

[vidjogamer]

Ok, I figured it out. Heres the solution for anyone else whos looking as well.

In the atlas packfile ouput from the modified texture packer from here: http://dpk.net/2011/05/01/libgdx-box2d-tiled-maps-full-working-example-part-1/ (Let me know if this is what I should be using btw). The 3rd line in the file is the filter mode "filter: Nearest,Nearest". Just change it to "filter: Linear,Linear" for example.

Still cant find a way to do in in code though.

On that note, does anyone know the order of filters... least to most cpu costly?

[Evile]

This is what we call premultiplied or unclamped alpha. A trick I use as an artist is to make 4 layer copies of the sprite, put all of them behind the sprite then nudge each layer 1-3 pixesl in NESW directions so that the alpha fringe is the same colour as the edge of the sprite.