Low quality textures for sprites?!

Hello,

I’ve added 512x512 resolution textures for my main character. This should be more then sufficient, but for some reason when I add the textures in the engine, and add them to a sprite the quality drops a lot!

Any tips? Should I use something else then PNG?

Can you provide an image of the quality loss you are talking about? There may be some minor quality loss associated with DXT compression but in most cases it is very minor.

Are you sure your results aren’t being thrown off by something like texture filtering? I have seen a few people expect no texture filtering when working with sprites. You can disable texture filtering in the texture options by setting the filtering to nearest neighbor.

Hello, I am having a similar issue. I am using multiple textures on a shader that I am creating. I have attached two screenshots of one of my textures. You’ll see that the texture in Photoshop is of decent quality. But when I bring it into UE4, the resolution seems to be a lot lower. I saved the image from Photoshop as a 32-bit targa. The image you see is also just one channel. I packed multiple images into the R,G, and B channels of the texture.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Hello, I am having a similar issue. I am using multiple textures on a shader that I am creating. I have attached two screenshots of one of my textures. You’ll see that the texture in Photoshop is of decent quality. But when I bring it into UE4, the resolution seems to be a lot lower. I saved the image from Photoshop as a 32-bit targa. The image you see is also just one channel. I packed multiple images into the R,G, and B channels of the texture.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Hi, it is expected that there is some quality loss due to compression. In addition, channel packing your texture will cause a much more severe quality loss. You can try selecting one of the uncompressed texture formats to compare. You can change the compression settings under the texture property window in ue4.

Im new so I don’t care lol xD