Steam Deck Graphics Improvements — Mooselutions Steam update #731379

I was getting the game ready for Super MAGFest and the Turn Based Carnival sale, and I was testing one of my builds on the Steam Deck. I popped over to...

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Mooselutions (2287140)
Event type
patch note
Published
10 November 2024 - 16:13:32 UTC
Source
steam_community_announcements
I was getting the game ready for Super MAGFest and the Turn Based Carnival sale, and I was testing one of my builds on the Steam Deck. I popped over to play some of my other favorite pixel art games (Axiom Verge specifically). I noticed the pixel art in that game and was impressed with how crisp it looked. I then took a second look at Mooselutions and figured something must be wrong because it wasn't quite as crisp. (For those of you who are super nerdy and technical, Mooselutions uses a pixel art scaling shader that does bilinear interpolation to blend ever so slightly, but only at texel boundaries. Inside of a texel, the shader samples the texel color, resulting in non-blurry pixel art scaling at non-integer multiples of the texture. It is very convenient because it means I don't have to letterbox the game and can arbitrarily scale textures so long as I preserve the aspect ratio.) Anyw...

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