Camera Zoom vs. Viewport Zoom in text crispness

[fxoy]

Godot Version

4.3.stable

Question

While my font works perfectly fine with “Project settings > viewport > scale”, it looks blurry when I use “Camera Zoom”.

I thought camera zoom supposed to the same thing. Please see the pictures.

• Font is OTF,
• Stretch mode doesn’t change the results
• I tried reimporting the font with MSDF but it just made it pixelated. See the final screenshot. When I tried the highest MSDF Size/Pixel Range. It looked better but still not crisp.

Viewport Scale

Zoom Scale

MSDF and MSDF with highest settings:

Any ideas how I can fix that? Is the font need to be designed in MSDF? I don’t really grasp MSDF thing fully, but clearly Godot is capable of rendering this because it does render correctly and crisply when scale viewport

[fxoy]

I don’t know if someone else tells me this is the wrong solution, but here is the workaround I found: Cranking up “oversampling” fixed the problem. I used 10 for the best effect not sure if there is any adverse affect, documentation states In most cases, this should be left at 0.0. but yeah it works

This only works when imported when dynamically rendered import template.

I think it’s still very slightly worse than viewport zoom’s results but unnoticable.