PNG graphics for a 2D game

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Hey guys. So I’ve been planning on trying my hand on creating a 2D game using one of the toolkits you can get in the asset store (“2D Toolkit” it’s called). Although before I want to actually make the purchase, I wanted to try some things first. The first being making sure imported 2D graphics looked okay. I plan to be making them all in illustrator, and I exported a few test ones as a png. But for whatever reason the quality was always, well kind of bad. And so, here is my question:

What settings do I have to change to make them look at higher quality? Should i export them as a different file type? I was just sticking them on a cube and playing with the cube’s size. I should also note that the PNGs I used were created in high quality and were very large.

I spent 45 minutes or so looking for answers online, but only found a few png issues that were in the context of GUI stuff, and didn’t seem of much help.

Any advice is much appreciated

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Illustrator is what I use to make 2D game art and 2D ToolKit is a fantastic product - if you are normally importing it before buying 2D Toolkit then you need to make sure that you sent the import type of the file in Unity to GUITexture - which will give you the pixel perfect unlit look that you will get automatically form 2D toolkit. Otherwise it is expected to go on a mesh and Unity wants it to be square in that case + the shader will play with the lighting etc etc etc.

Bottom line - using 2D toolkit and Illustrator you graphics will look exactly the same as they do in Illustrator. You should output as PNG that’s just fine - you should output the graphics at the size you want them to be.