{"id":13,"date":"2008-03-03T05:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T10:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/alearningexperience\/2008\/03\/xna-how-to-disable-bitmap-magnification-blending-blur.html"},"modified":"2008-03-03T05:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T10:07:00","slug":"xna-how-to-disable-bitmap-magnification-blending-blur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/alearningexperience\/2008\/03\/xna-how-to-disable-bitmap-magnification-blending-blur.html","title":{"rendered":"XNA – How to Disable Bitmap Magnification Blending (Blur)"},"content":{"rendered":"

In working on my code for Conway’s Game of Life, I ran into a problem with the default bitmap scaling behavior in XNA. I’m generating a bitmap that I scale to the size of the window. When this bitmap is displayed, it is shown as a blurry mess:<\/p>\n

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Removing that doggone blending is actually quite simple. You have to modify your spriteBatch.begin() call, and modify the graphics device settings immediately after, like so:
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spriteBatch.Begin(SpriteBlendMode<\/span>.AlphaBlend, <\/p>\n

SpriteSortMode<\/span>.Immediate, SaveStateMode<\/span>.None);<\/p>\n

graphics.GraphicsDevice.SamplerStates[0].MagFilter = TextureFilter<\/span>.None;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The key in the spriteBatch.Begin() call is the SpriteSortMode<\/span>. Setting this value to immediate causes any changes to the graphics device to be applied immediately. And we want to make a change, as you can see in the next line of code. I’m changing the magnification filter to TextureFilter<\/span>.None because I don’t want it to blue anything. After this, you draw and scale your sprites like normal. The result looks like this:<\/p>\n

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ahh… much better!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In working on my code for Conway’s Game of Life, I ran into a problem with the default bitmap scaling behavior in XNA. I’m generating a bitmap that I scale to the size of the window. When this bitmap is displayed, it is shown as a blurry mess: Removing that doggone blending is actually quite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphics","category-xna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/alearningexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/alearningexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/alearningexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/alearningexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/alearningexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/alearningexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/alearningexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/alearningexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/alearningexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}