Best way to show 2D images

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Hello

I was just wondering what the best way to show 2D images is? I’ve tried using textures on quads and grids but the quality is not very bood, blurry and a bit lacking in color. Any tips on file formats, texture formats and so on? Even new ways to do it?

Best I could get was by taking for instance a 2048x2048 texture, put my image in the middle of it and then make it fit the quad pixelwise. Still not as good as when I show a picture in any imaging software.

Help would be much appreciated. :)

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helo alj,

see oschatzens answer here. this should help you get your images sharp and shiny.

if anybody makes a nice patch out of this classic problem i’d be glad to distribute it with the \girlpowers.

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joreg, modules for this problem and its use cases are on my harddrive already. i’v made them for a project… we contact…

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Ahh, Filter (EX9.SamplerState) did the job by setting Magnification and Minification to “point” and setting MipMapp Filter to “none”. It’s now as sharp as it gets. :)

It think this effect would be a nice little thing to mention in the DirectX Rendering tutorial, as I can imagine many people using VVVV for something like this. Doesn’t have to be a huge section, just a short mention of what it does.

Thank you very much. :)

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@tonfilm&joreg

are the “sharpness” patches now included in the actual vvvv release? how are they called?