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[Alpha Pink]

Hey folks!
 I'm currently working on a game with a friend, and I've encountered a bit of an issue with mip mapping(?) textures in unity.
without it, my textures tend to get stripey at long distances, but with it they get kind of mucky and dirty.

with:


Without:

(it's way worse in motion)

What do you guys think? Do you prefer one setting over the other? Are there ways to tweak the mip maps beyond the settings offered in unity? Should I just create textures with mip mapping in mind? What did you guys do in your projects?

thanks!

[Sgt. Pepper]

Some players may like the stripy, non-mipmapped graphics, and some may hate it, so you could simply have an option to turn mipmapping on.

[Oddball]

If that is going to be the resolution of the final textures then I'd say without. But if you're gonna have higher res textures then definitely mipmap the hell out of it.

[Polly]

What level of anisotropic filtering are you using ( "Aniso Level" in Unity )?

[Alpha Pink]

Some players may like the stripy, non-mipmapped graphics, and some may hate it, so you could simply have an option to turn mipmapping on.

That's a good idea. Is there a way to enable that in the editor?

If that is going to be the resolution of the final textures then I'd say without. But if you're gonna have higher res textures then definitely mipmap the hell out of it.

Those are final resolution textures. It does look better on some textures compared to others. Would it be a good idea to only have mipmapping on certain textures?

What level of anisotropic filtering are you using ( "Aniso Level" in Unity )?

I'm not sure, but anisotropic textures were forced on and AA was disabled in the quality settings in unity.

So far I think I'll leave them on and fool around with the settings. Thanks for the input folks!

[Netsu]

What is the resolution of those textures? If this is 1:1 scale pixelart then you could increase the resolution of the textures without changing the actual look. Just scale it 4x or whatever. Then mip mapping should produce much better results.

[ProgramGamer]

Maybe try reducing the contrast of the textures? 

[BorisTheBrave]

I don't see anything wrong with the mip mapped image.

But I note that your texture layout is pratically a textbook case for why Anisotropic filtering is needed, as you are looking very obliquely at those textures.