FEATURE REQUEST: Nearest Neighbor Interpolation Option
Approw
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It would be great if we're able to select Bilinear Interpolation or Nearest Neighbor Interpolation as a scaling option.
One of the simpler ways of increasing an image size is nearest-neighbor interpolation, replacing every pixel with a number of pixels of the same color. This can be incredibly useful when making pixel art games. When scaling a tiny 8 bit image within gamedsalad, it will be as sharp as non scaled, and it will not make a difference on the memory. So you can create tiny pixel art sprites/textures, and just save them the way they are, no pre scaling needed!
At the moment we need to pre-scale pixel art in photoshop (or other software). When importing the image in gamesalad, it is unnecessary big, and is using unnecessary ram.
Nearest Neighbor Interpolation is just a different algorithm to process images, not a fancy new feature. Almost every engine I know of had this neat little feature from the beginning, it's time to get it too.
Please vote!
Edit: Forgot the link http://bugs.gamesalad.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1095
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It's already on the way.
@Socks seriously? I have asked it before, but I never got a straight answer or confirmation from the gs staff. Maybe I've missed it:|
@BlackCloakGS Can you confirm this?
We are adding an option in 0.14 where you can set the texture filter to point (for pixel art) or liner (for non pixel art)
Seriously !!
Great news for pixel art / 8 bit GameSalad developer folk , welcome to the era of super smooth, glitch free, rapid loading, tiny memory footprint goodness !! 
Great stuff !
Would this be per asset, or is it a global setting for each project ?
Also when you say 'liner' do you mean bilinear or linear (and is this setting what is being used at the moment) ?
OMG... This is really great news, thank you so much for this update. For me this will probably the best new feature along with the new render engine in 0.14. I will get such a huge performance boost in my pixel games:D
Is this also going to enable us to create a small scene (for example 192x256), and when you rotate and actor, it will look pixelated when turning?
Im dancing in at this particular moment:)
Good question, I assume it will be a global setting.
This is excellent news
Yes! The end of @4x and @6x textures! That means massive memory savings!
@BlackCloakGS @dgackey Any status update regarding the point texture filter? I know the team has been busy with the custom collisions, but I actually thought the new texture filter would have been implemented in the last update. Any chance it will be there in the upcoming update?
i secondi this!
we still want to do this but other higher priorities are keeping this on the back burner.
Have you put in a feature request into our bug system?
@BlackCloakGS I understand. And yes, it is listed as bug 1095. http://bugs.gamesalad.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1095