DELTREE'S PROFILE

Oh, haha, y'all are still talking about the A/B thing when I already committed to B a few days ago!

The camera automatically zooms in slightly for cutscenes and when interacting with/speaking to characters to make it more intimate, so, that's all good.

Since Unity is a totally 3D engine, getting sprites to look "right" is a monumental task in and of itself. For instance, all the sprites in the game are actually imported at 400% resolution, then scaled down to 25% with a bilinear filter, so it "looks" pixel-perfect. Trying to bring in sprites 1:1 makes for a jittery, broken mess - believe me, I tried! So, there's not an easy way to make the pixels a consistent size, but this method gets things close enough, and lets me do camera zoom tricks close to losslessly.

Anyway, enough words! Thanks again for the responses!

TMS trip report: It's, uh, all right. I was pleased that they totally stuck to the idea of the "SMT and Fire Emblem" crossover, especially in a mechanical sense, but I am already finding the battle system to be tedious and I'm only a few hours in. It keeps the idea of the "press turn" system, but it only applies to automatic followup attacks from your other party members, so it's even more whack-a-mole than Persona. The story and characters are complete anime fluff, which is to be expected, and thankfully every cringeworthy animated cutscene is totally skippable. If you have a high tolerance for that stuff, it might be worth a go.

Also, I just remembered that Zero Escape 3 released today, so I'm gonna go play that instead!

I know right, unfortunately my present touchscreen capabilities will be limited to "replacements for the missing L2 and R2 buttons."

Thanks for the response, y'all! It is starting to look quite a bit sharper, I'll admit. I do have to go through all the scenes and make sure the backgrounds are all properly cropped and such, and relocate some "hidden" treasures that are meant to be off-screen and naturally out-of-view (until you use the right analog stick to push the camera around and see them). All that will probably take me a couple more days to finish.

In celebration, here's one last gigantor screenshot!

Hey y'all. I've been messing with camera projection settings and am wondering if a zoomed-out look would work in my favor. The consensus I've gotten so far (and the first thing that I noticed too) is that the zoomed-out camera makes for less blocky sprites, but it also makes things feel less intimate.

As this is a platformer, it also reveals more of the level at once, which could be good or bad (seeing more of the level, but revealing traps and hidden surprises/enemies). Performance does not seem impacted, but I haven't tested the change on my "beater" laptop yet.

Here's the "regular" zoom level:



And here it is zoomed out about 25%, which is as far as I could go before I started getting weird interpolation errors on the sprites. I also adjusted the projection on the foreground elements slightly:



Anyway, if you could take a moment and vote A or B, I'd appreciate it!

(Late edit) Here's a different area with better lighting and also zoomed-out. Also, it shows the UI layout, which is the same scale and won't change.