Rob - then please explain to me this.
this is made in DB. the one on the left is simply the image being pasted to the screen. the one on the right is 3d plane textured with the texture and with filtering set to off. can you see any difference? i sure can't.
not to mention i've not met one person with any kind of video card that has trouble just switching off filtering to make crisp 2d-like textures. it even works fine for a guy i know with an old low-end SiS inbuilt video card. if it'll run on that piece of crap (i lived with the same card for 2 years) then it doesn't really seem to be video-card specific (unless you run it on an EGA display or something..).
here's the source code, if you feel so inclined to download the DB1 (not DBP... it's crappy) demo and run it.
if you do, try changing the line
set object 1,1,0,1,0,0,0,0
to
set object 1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0
and you'll notice the fuzziness introduced by texture filtering.
it IS possible; blitz just doesn't have the means!
this is made in DB. the one on the left is simply the image being pasted to the screen. the one on the right is 3d plane textured with the texture and with filtering set to off. can you see any difference? i sure can't.
not to mention i've not met one person with any kind of video card that has trouble just switching off filtering to make crisp 2d-like textures. it even works fine for a guy i know with an old low-end SiS inbuilt video card. if it'll run on that piece of crap (i lived with the same card for 2 years) then it doesn't really seem to be video-card specific (unless you run it on an EGA display or something..).
here's the source code, if you feel so inclined to download the DB1 (not DBP... it's crappy) demo and run it.
sync on : sync rate 60 disable escapekey autocam off make object plain 1,64,64 set object 1,1,0,1,0,0,0,0 load image "c:\blitz3d\blah1.bmp",1 texture object 1,1 Position object 1,0,0,screen Width()*0.625 repeat paste image 1,200,208 sync until keystate(1) end
if you do, try changing the line
set object 1,1,0,1,0,0,0,0
to
set object 1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0
and you'll notice the fuzziness introduced by texture filtering.
it IS possible; blitz just doesn't have the means!