Icon compression

Unity Engine
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I always thought my icons looked bleh compared to other apps so I did a comparison.

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Left is what Unity created (with it set to ‘truecolor’). Right is what I exported from photoshop. You can tell the difference on the device, too (just replace the icon file(s) in the xcode project). Is there a reason for this? Unity’s is smaller in file size but I haven’t read about any size limitations for icons yet. Thoughts?

edit: the effect is more apparent with more complex icons

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At a guess, Unity just does simple bilinear filtering on the source image when reducing the size for the icon, whereas you’d use better filtering in Photoshop.

–Eric

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Yeah unity filters the shit out of images. Getting crystal clear images is really hard in unity.

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Would be nice to have a checkbox in Unity that’d let me set it to not overwrite the icon so I didn’t have to replace it every build.

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You shouldnt have to, and its often better just to write all 4 icons. 512, 114,72,57. Make sure to use GUI settings on the those textures otherwise it will round them up to 64,128 etc