Scaling Spine character properly.

Kikekun

Hello,

I'm not a Programmer, so please forgive my lack of technical knowledge. Also, sorry if you are already tired of answering this question, but I just wanna be sure we are doing things properly.

Our issue is that we have our Spine character art assets quite big (prepared for BIG resolutions), but because our game is gonna be released on a much smaller resolution, we need to scale our character down. So, we do scale it down in Unity, but the problem is that the character has very noticeable scaling artifacts (pixelated) maybe due to an excessive scaling down?

So what should we do? Scaling down the art assets in Photoshop messes up our character in Spine completely...

Kikekun

Pharan

The artifacts you're seeing is probably textures being too sharp with mipmaps disabled. But I wouldn't recommend resorting to mipmaps as that's kind of senseless to count on it for your sprites' regular size.

When you export JSON and atlas from Spine editor, you can pack the atlases at a lower resolution. There's a button next to the Create Atlas checkbox that says Settings. The scale settings should be there. They're two rows of 4 boxes.

Try to experiment different scales on export to see what looks best for you.
For starters, I'd recommend 0.5 or 0.25. But you probably know how big your original assets are and how big they should appear on screen. You can do the math.
Then stick those atlases in Unity and see if they look good.

Kikekun

Thanks a lot! :beer:

M.O.

If by any chance your sprites seem a little blurry, go ahead and generate mip maps for them, that cleaned it up for me