How to get that 'pixel' style out of your textures without OpenGL?

adam

Hello,

I am trying to get that pixelated look your textures get when you make the Texel lookup in OpenGL "nearest". I love the look and want to use it for a project I am working, however OpenGL doesn't work well for the rest of my scene I have and causes rendering & viewing errors all over the place.

Using Nitrous works fine and I am wondering if there is anything I can do to get this same technique for rendering the materials as I would get from OpenGL.

adam

Additionally, if this will not work with the viewport renderer, can I enable it when I do a scanline render?

adam

Got it to work with a scanline render! Turned off filtering. Now if I could only disable it in the viewport aswell...

Noors

Don't you have just to put texel lookup to nearest in configure direct3d ? Mipmap to none.
If it doesnt work, maybe you've overriden direct3d parameters in the Nvidia desktop manager (or ATI thingy)

trebor777

check the filtering method in the map settings in your material and also in the driver configuration.

almighty_gir

nitrous doesn't offer driver configuration like that. which is super shitty.

i fuckin' hate nitrous.

Noors

I think Nitrous is okish for fast arch/cad viz for clients, but for us, it's shit. Just revert to direct3d. If you want AA, force it in your Nvidia manager.

trebor777

Sadly autodesk is pushing it forward with dx11 support... and the old direct3d will probably get discontinued at some point.

adam

Ah OK, I will switch to Direct3D since I'm really doing my project via rendering. Noors: I think that only gets applied when you render, not when you're viewing in the viewport. I'm not at home to check if I'm wrong, though, which I wish I am.

Noors

Yes you're wrong, i've checked

adam

Giggity! I'll get on this when I get home.

joeriv

no texture filtering: For viewport, go to Customize & Preferences & Viewports tab & Configure Driver and set Texel and Mipmap Lookup to "Nearest" and "None". For rendering, un-check "Filter Maps" in the Renderer tab.

no antialiasing: Either grab the viewport or un-check the "Antialiasing" checkbox in Renderer tab of the Render settings.

Found this a while ago on PC and had it saved in a text document (can't remember who it was from).
For Direct3D that should do the trick.

adam

Direct3D is working great for both Viewport and Rendering! Huzzah.

adam

Any idea why, with Direct3D, setting the texel lookup to 'Nearest' wouldn't work for the viewport? At work I had it working fine, at home its not working at all. Save version of Max.

adam

Hardware lighting was the problem. All good now!