2010-08-01, 04:19 PM
Offtopic: Some graphical improvements. I don't think the lines in the menu ever show up at any resolution. But for some reason when I force anisotropic filtering they do. The anisotropic filtering would also be an improvement if I could figure out how to not apply it to the menu / why the hell those lines even show up because of it.
Another pain I've run into is Som doesn't always enforce the filter setting. Like for some reason with the elemental crystal items they don't seem to ever be filtered. There is probably something about those files which makes them not get filtered. I'd like to support the point filter option, even though I don't think it's that interesting. But an extension that forces a linear filter would make things easier since it could be applied globally. As for the trilinear filter option, D3D9 does not have that as part of the API. It just has the linear setting, and your hardware will use the best linear filter it has depending on the Quality vs. Performance settings in your control panel.
Even when it looks better somehow I just don't think mixing linear filtered and point filtered graphics work. Like sometimes the grass seems to look better with a point filter but having hard square pixels in a world that is otherwise smoothed by the linear filter just seems wrong.
Another pain I've run into is Som doesn't always enforce the filter setting. Like for some reason with the elemental crystal items they don't seem to ever be filtered. There is probably something about those files which makes them not get filtered. I'd like to support the point filter option, even though I don't think it's that interesting. But an extension that forces a linear filter would make things easier since it could be applied globally. As for the trilinear filter option, D3D9 does not have that as part of the API. It just has the linear setting, and your hardware will use the best linear filter it has depending on the Quality vs. Performance settings in your control panel.
Even when it looks better somehow I just don't think mixing linear filtered and point filtered graphics work. Like sometimes the grass seems to look better with a point filter but having hard square pixels in a world that is otherwise smoothed by the linear filter just seems wrong.