idea: per-texture-pixel shading mode

[JoshCaladia]

per-pixel is great for more realistic set-ups, and per-vertex is great for super retro-style set-ups, but what i'm working with is per-pixel lighting on nearest-filtered textures, which has several weird artifacts with specular and reflections. if it were lit per-pixel of a texture, this ugly visual issue would be avoided.

this screenshot has circled 2 examples of awkward artifacting from the current per-pixel set-up. another solution for my current conundrum would be to allow normal maps (and all components of the material really) to have their own texture filtering settings, but this would still not be perfect, just an option that might look ok

[theraot]

You are looking for the term "per-texel lighting".

[JoshCaladia]

yes, i suppose i am

[Calinou]

godotengine/godot#88650 likely resolves this while also avoiding between texels, since the texture still uses bilinear filtering behind the scenes.

You could also enable TAA (or better, FSR2 at native resolution) to get rid of specular aliasing.

[JoshCaladia]

would the first thing there also solve the gradients of light on individual texels? it's not my biggest concern but i would rather have each texel be a solid colour

[Calinou]

would the first thing there also solve the gradients of light on individual texels? it's not my biggest concern but i would rather have each texel be a solid colour

No, that's a separate issue. This can be achieved with a custom light() function in a shader: #8671 (comment)

[JoshCaladia]

would the first thing there also solve the gradients of light on individual texels? it's not my biggest concern but i would rather have each texel be a solid colour

No, that's a separate issue. This can be achieved with a custom light() function in a shader: #8671 (comment)

i was hoping to not have to use custom shaders since i am not good at using them lol, but i guess i'll have to learn