Bilinear texture filtering in software backend

[STRESS]

Hi there,

Is there any chance that we will see bilinear texturing filtering for the software backend? I know it is a bit more costly. But especially when using label geometries the font quality suffers quite significantly especially when the size is smaller making it nearly unreadable compared to the JOGL backend.

If there are no plans a hint on what would the place in the source one would have to modify would be nice.

[STRESS]

Actually I noticed there is already binlinear filtering, sorry. The poorer quality of labels is probably more down to the alpha blending I assume.

[steffen]

I think that alpha-blending works in the software backend but does not work in the jogl backend (except when transparency is enabled...). Am I wrong?

[STRESS]

No alpha blending is not on in software backend for labels while if you look at the JOGL backend implementation it switches alpha blending on before it renders label nodes. I slightly modified the software backend to force alpha blending on when it encounters a label geometry that increases the quality of labels especially under heavy magnification but for minification you would also need at least MIP mapping and potentially trilinear filtering to reach the same quality level.