Bilinear or Trilinear settigs

[tbenn52139]

Whats the difference between BILINEAR and TRILINEAR in the display settings in 2004?

Regards TBenn

[Adam24]

I never saw a difference between these settings - its something related to texture clarity. As long as I stay with bilinear, Im okay. You have to find the setting that best suits you

[mrzippy]

I found this explanation on a computer website.

the best is anisotropic filtering, that I know
As for an explanation I'll try, but hopefully someone else can offer a better explanation
Bilinear filtering smoothes out textures that are a different resolution than your screen. If something is pixelated but your screen can handle a higher res, bilinear filtering will make a gradient between the pixels to make it smoother.
Trilinear filtering does the same thing, but the colour gradient will determined by more than one mipmap. Mipmaps are the saved versions of the texture atvarious sizes. Trilinear filtering will do bilinear filtering on multiple mipmaps and then take the average of that to perform the colour gradient.
Anisotropic filtering takes into account angled textures as they get farther away. A texture an an angled surface can be very detailed when it is close to the viewer, but as it gets farther, only less detailed resolutions can be shown. Anisotropic filtering helps with keeping texture that are far away and angled stay sharper.
Hope this helps a little. Also with anti alaising is even better but kills frame rates

[tbenn52139]

Thanks for the Info.

TBenn

[garryrussell]

Thanks for that

Why oh why don't they either call these things names people can understand or issue a list explaining them.

I for one am not going to start messing with something that's name means nothing to me and therefore offers no clues to solutions to problems I may have