Is Pixel Art possible with lower resolution using a Nearest Neighbor scaler? about angle HOT 3 CLOSED

Hi Steve,

Yes, the hardware overlay scaler in Windows phones doesn't use nearest neighbor.

One solution to this would be to render your game's content to a small offscreen surface. You could copy this to your window surface by rendering a textured quad using GL_NEAREST. There will still be performance benefits for this compared to rendering at full-resolution, but they won't be as great as using the hardware scaler.

I hope this helps, and let me know if you have any other questions.
Austin

from angle.

Thanks for the info.

I'm working with the cocos2d-x engine. Would you recommend doing this on the OpenGL side with a render texture or frame buffer, or should I modify the ANGLE part to do this with DirectX surfaces?

from angle.

Apologies, I missed your reply. I'd strongly recommend doing this on the OpenGL ES side with a texture or offscreen framebuffer. This will have very similar performance to modifying the DirectX part of ANGLE.

Hope this helps!

from angle.