Anti-Aliasing does absolutely nothing on my PNG sprites

[axoking]

Godot Version

v4.4.1.stable.mono.official [49a5bc7b6]

Question

I have a project where I have a circular sprite with a very ugly green face, and it always appears pixelated, like this:

So I wanted to enable Antialiasing, but when I set MSAA 2D to 8x, it still looks the same:

What am I doing wrong here? Because in the windows viewer, it looks very smooth:

so it should be possible for Godot to display the PNG like that, but how? Do I have to change some other options in order to actually use Antialiasing?

Thank you for answers

[gertkeno]

Downscaling large images will cause grainy artifacts. In 3D this is usually solved with mipmaps, but it’s best to keep your image resolution accurate to how it will be displayed in-game.

Downscaling high resolution asset causes blurry jagged edges

Godot Version 4.4 Question I have a 800x400 image that looks fine if I keep it at that scale on my canvas, but if I downscale it (4-5x), it looks like complete crap and jagged. If I import it as 80x40, it also looks like crap because its now low resolution. What are my options here? I’ve imported it with every option under the sun and cannot get a clean looking image. [image] If I zoom in on the editor it looks better, if I scale it up and load the game, it looks fine. But if I keep it as a…

[axoking]

yeah ok I guess that’s the easiest solution. Thank you

[axoking]

but still kinda weird that Windows photo viewer can display it better than Godot can

[gertkeno]

Windows photo viewer uses a better downscaling technique because it’s only goal is to show one image, whereas Godot has to show hundreds or thousands of images 60 times per second.

[axoking]

Ohh right that makes sense to me