When I try to use mipmap filtering in LibGDX, none of the images appear.
I'm new to LibGDX, and I have a simple 2d scene with three rotating, scaled circles. In order to anti-alias them, I wanted to use linear filtering. For advice, I looked to this article,which said that, for heavily scaled images, a mipmap can be used to improve speed or quality.
The first unexpected appearance was that, despite the fact that all of my images were scaled down, I would only see a linear filter if the magFilter was linear. In other words:
This code will show a linear filter for minified images:
parentTexture.setFilter(TextureFilter.Nearest, TextureFilter.Linear);
whlie this code will not:
parentTexture.setFilter(TextureFilter.Linear, TextureFilter.Nearest);
which seems opposite to the libGDX function:
void com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.Texture.setFilter(TextureFilter minFilter, TextureFilter magFilter)
This would not bother me, except that it indicates that either libgdx is wrong (unlikely), the article is wrong (unlikely), or I don't understand texture filters. The latter seems especially likely when I try mipmap filters.
This code causes nothing to display
parentTexture.setFilter(TextureFilter.MipMapLinearLinear, TextureFilter.Linear);
This code displays, but with nearest filtering
parentTexture.setFilter(TextureFilter.Linear, TextureFilter.MipMapLinearLinear);
Any explanation of where I'm wrong would be greatly appreciated. I have searched elsewhere, but texture filters in libGDX is pretty specific, so aside from the article, I haven't found much to help.