<div dir="ltr"><div>Don,</div><div><br></div><div>I see you fixed this in <a href="https://github.com/Web3DConsortium/X3D/commit/40b250be3a341f16614bab045849f78c4f28c042">https://github.com/Web3DConsortium/X3D/commit/40b250be3a341f16614bab045849f78c4f28c042</a> -- thank you, this is exactly what we needed.</div><div><br></div><div>Good catch with "TextureProperties.<span class="gmail-blob-code-inner gmail-blob-code-marker">textureCompression" -- indeed it deserved a similar change (to be "DEFAULT" by default), this is perfect.</span></div><div><span class="gmail-blob-code-inner gmail-blob-code-marker"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail-blob-code-inner gmail-blob-code-marker">Regards,</span></div><div><span class="gmail-blob-code-inner gmail-blob-code-marker">Michalis<br></span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">śr., 28 lip 2021 o 00:51 Michalis Kamburelis <<a href="mailto:michalis.kambi@gmail.com">michalis.kambi@gmail.com</a>> napisał(a):<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Not (yet) :)</div><div><br></div><div>I proposed there a change:</div><div><br></div><div>The default "TextureProperties.magnificationFilter" and "TextureProperties.minificationFilter" values should change. Right now they are "FASTEST" by default, they should be "DEFAULT" by default (which means "use browser default" and is actually sensible in all browsers).</div><div><br></div><div>Reason:<br></div><div><br></div><div>Right now, adding a TextureProperties to a texture node is a little trap: you need to remember to *almost always* set TextureProperties.magnificationFilter and TextureProperties.minificationFilter. Otherwise, they are by default "FASTEST", which means "nearest" or "closest",and there's a high chance that you degraded your texture quality by accident. <br></div><div><br></div><div>All sensible modern 3D viewers (X3D browsers and everything else) use by default bilinear or trilinear (with automatic mipmaps) filtering, and that is good.<br></div><div><br></div><div>E.g. <br></div><div><br></div><div>- you want to set anisotropic filtering</div><div>- so you add TextureProperties to the texture node, which is the only way to get anisotropic filtering in X3D</div><div>- and you fill TextureProperties.anisotropicDegree, leaving the rest of TextureProperties at default values<br></div><div><br></div><div>Effect? Yes, you set anisotropic filtering, but you also accidentally made your texture use "FASTEST" (aka nearest, closest) filtering.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Michalis<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">wt., 27 lip 2021 o 20:27 Brutzman, Donald (Don) (CIV) <<a href="mailto:brutzman@nps.edu" target="_blank">brutzman@nps.edu</a>> napisał(a):<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">all the best, Don<u></u><u></u></p>
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