How do you scale SKSpirteNode without anti aliasing

ios objective-c textures sprite-kit
Edwin Iskandar picture Edwin Iskandar · Oct 5, 2013 · Viewed 8.2k times · Source

I am trying to scale an SKSpriteNode object without smoothing/anti-aliasing (I'm using pixel-art so it looks better pixelated).

Is there a property I need to set to do this? This is the code I am using to render the sprite:

SKTextureAtlas *atlas = [SKTextureAtlas atlasNamed:@"objects"];
SKTexture *f1 = [atlas textureNamed:@"hero_1.png"];

SKSpriteNode *hero = [SKSpriteNode spriteNodeWithTexture:f1];
[self addChild: hero];

hero.scale = 6.0f;

The image is scaled correctly but blurry/smoothed out. This is hero_1.png enter image description here.

Answer

DogCoffee picture DogCoffee · Oct 5, 2013

Try,

SKTexture *texture = [SKTexture textureWithImageNamed:@"Fak4o"];
texture.filteringMode = SKTextureFilteringNearest;
SKSpriteNode *newHero = [SKSpriteNode spriteNodeWithTexture:texture];
newHero.position = CGPointMake(200, 200);
[newHero setScale:50];
[self addChild:newHero];

SKTextureFilteringNearest

Each pixel is drawn using the nearest point in the texture. This mode is faster, but the results are often pixelated.

Swift:

sprite.texture!.filteringMode = .Nearest

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