Upscale Pixel Art

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Our 2D pixel game makes use of camera stacking to easily handle parallax using layers. The old Pixel Perfect Camera seemed to work fine with the old camera system - at the very least the Upscale Render Texture part worked which was good for correctly pixelating rotations, particle effects and UI.

For us the camera stacking is an efficient way for us to layer things for parallax but we still want the final output to be pixel-perfect or at the very least rendered at the correct resolution including sprite rotation and particles.

Hi I am having the same problem. I want to be a able to use bloom and camera shake without those getting effected by upscale render texture. Is there a way I could use the old pixel perfect camera? any help is appreciated

Is there any other way to display text normally when upscaled render texture is turned on

This is very important to me, I hope to get an answer, will consider the problem of camera stacking, or not, I need to think about what to do next.

You can have your canvases as Screen Space - Overlay. I think you can setup the pixel perfectness manually, rendering the output of your camera to a lower resolution Render Texture, and overlaying that yourself, not sure.

Sorry, my current knowledge cannot understand the method you provided. I have not touched the canvas in the 2d game I made, and it will take a while to learn.

My materials are all pixels, but the shader may not be pixels after some requirements.

Upscaled Render Texture can solve the problem very well, so I hope Unity can let go of the camera stacking limit, and only need one camera to use Pixel Perfect.

But the developer did not respond to me. Is it during the Christmas holidays?

First I would like to mention that I did searched for an answer to my issue on the forum but only found a thread by Rowby Goren from Jan 4, 2010, who asked a similar pixel resize question regarding to still images in CS4. He was answered to use Photoshop for this kind of task. My issue on the other hand is for handling a video that can only be edited in Premiere. I'm using CS6. My issue is as follows:

I work a lot with pixel art animation in 320x240 resolution. Usually I'm making a 320x240 scene of background and characters and the final result should be a doubled sized. So each pixel is actually 2 times larger. Just like old adventure games from the good old days that most of us remember. It works great with old style games creation engines however when I want to make a video with my pixel art creation in Premiere, I couldn't achieve an exact and clean doubled pixel when resizing the source by 200%. It always gets blurry. Does anyone knows if Premiere has any switch off option for scalling blur?

I have created an image that describes the issue. It's just a simple pixel art image that I picked up on google search. I saved and uploaded it as PNG for best quality, I just hope it won't get compressed after the upload. Any assitance will be appreciated!

this is an old unanswered post but appears way up top on the google search engine. I bet I wasn't the only frustrated with this... SO HERE'S THE ANSWER:

Right click on your image layer, Quality I've been creating computer games for many years by now and never encountered this issue before. When you scale up a digital image or video, the pixels should save their properties and not 'merge' with each other, but only double their size when scalling up by 200%. Most editing software today do the 'blurry' effect when scalling up or down an image because less and less people are working on pixel art noadays, and the blurry effect looks nice from a few meters away. Old editing tools on the other hand used to handle pixel arts quite well.

Take the Microsoft Paint that can be found in Windows XP for example. It used to handle pixel arts great when scalling up or down an image. But since Vista and OS 7 have arrived, the new Microsoft Paint has been 'improved' and now it does the same 'blurry' issue and can't handle scalling an exact pixel art image anymore. Try it for yourself on both XP and Vista/7 machines and be amazed with the difference.

I believe that there should be a way to turn off the blurring effect in Premiere for people like me who's work is still based on pixel arts (a feature request perhaps). Just like in Photoshop where you can switch off the 'antializing' feature in order to cut/paint areas in an image, without worring that the blurring effect will merge the pixels around your cut/paint area.

I don't know how much you know about old style computer games from the '80s-'90s that were based on pixel art graphics, but it has nothing to do with vector graphic whatsoever. If they were then companies that are making re-makes for those games noadays wouldn't have to handle with all the graphics from almost scratch. They would only had to take the original graphics (if they were vector based I emphasize) and resize them to large resolutions. A good example for that are the old but yet great games 'Monkey Island 1' & 'Monkey Island 2' by LucasArts. The special edition of these games were created with vector tools in order to have much higher graphics resolution to attract the audience, however the original versions were entirely pixel art creation that was drew pixel by pixel.

As far as I know, vector graphics that usually create in Illustrator are based on mathematical calculation that creates an image. Say you draw a line from one point to another, the rest of the pixels between the first and last dots are calculated in such a way that it first makes the final file much smaller in size, but you'll also be able to scale the image up and down without loosing the overall quality of the image. So a character in 200x500 pixels size can be scaled up or down to whatever size you like and the image quality will remain as if you draw the character in the larger/smaller size. And that is due to the amazing vector pixels calculation technology. That can be seen in flash videos/games.

I'm working as I mentioned on pixel art style and therefore the vector technology is not for me. That is why I'm looking for a way to work in clean pixels without the blurry effect in few of the great softwares that lies in the Master Collection suite I purchased from Adobe, which are Premiere and perhaps After Effects. If there isn't any option to handle that then perhaps Adobe should consider a feature request to achieve that in the above tools.

And just for the big idea of what pixel art can be used for, see the image below in 100% and 200% sizes (was taken by google search). No vector tools have been used to create that image. It's a pixel by pixel creation. Click to see in full resolution.

Thanks Jim, I am aware of the fact that it's a degraded image that doesn't have any antializing effect on it. And that's what I'm trying to achieve in Premiere, although it's currently impossible. Until now I'm doing exactly what you suggested, which is to double the size in Photoshop or other tool that doesn't affect any antializing on the image and then I import it into Premiere. However this also makes a problem when you want to move objects on the screen as the imported images which are doubled size, won't show well on the 1:1 pixel grid when you move them around the screen. So let's say each move on the X axis to the left or right (which represents a move by 1 pixel) should be moved twice in order to meet the doubled sized images pixel grid.

Take a look on the picture I created to see what I mean. I've duplicated the box image and I'm trying to position each box one next to another in a 3d space look. The left boxes is the original image of the 2 boxes, and the right image is the doubled sized image that was created outside of Premiere. Please note that I've the entire screenshot twice larger so you could see the difference. And please ignore the fact that there is no antializing on the right image as I made this simulation in Photoshop so the pixels will be clean to show the problem.

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