Fuzzy text and images

[ExpLuuk]

I seem to have found some kind of issue with Nova regarding to the rendering of text and images. The image below is rendered at 2560x1440 and seems to have fuzzy edges surrounding every element that is NOT generated by Nova (Rounded corners on the progress bar seem fine for example).

The UI Root has a Screenspace component with a reference scale of 2560x1440 and the GameObject's scale has been set to 0.001 as is recommended by the Manual.

Below the main image are a bunch of closeups to better show the issue.

[dkonik]

A few follow up questions/things to try:

• Do the suggestions given here make any difference for the text in your scenario?
• If you replace one of the TextBlocks with a regular (non-canvas) TMP component (having all of the same settings as the TextBlock), does it have the same rendering artifacts? (You might need to disable the SortGroup and nudge the TMP gameobject towards the camera in order to have it render over your backing panel if you have one).
  • In either case, it might be worth trying some of the suggestions provided here and here.
• Do you have MSAA (or some other anti-aliasing) enabled? If so, does it have an effect on the artifacts?
• Do the artifacts happen with multiple fonts, or just one?
• For the images/UIBlock2D, does disabling Soften Edges make any difference?
• Does adjusting the Plane Distance on the ScreenSpace component of your UI Root make any difference?

If none of the above suggestions provided above resolve your issue, could you please provide the following so that we can investigate further:

• Unity version
• Render pipeline (i.e., built in or URP)
• Which platform you are using
• The font you are using as well as a screenshot of the font settings in Unity
• One of the problematic images, as well as a screen shot of the texture settings in Unity

[ExpLuuk]

Thanks for your swift reply!

The issue seemed to come from the FXAA Anti-Aliasing, like you suggested. Turning it off solved the issue.

I assume the proper workflow for using AA for the game and not for full screen Nova UI is to render the full screen UI in a different layer?

Thanks again!

[dkonik]

Just changing the layer won't prevent the AA from being applied to the UI, what you'll likely want to do is have your UI rendered by a separate camera that doesn't have the AA applied to it.

[ExpLuuk]

Right, that's what I meant to say. Glad to hear that this is in fact the proper way to handle the situation.

Thanks again for the swift reply and help. I'm absolutely loving the increase in speed and quality that Nova has brought to my everyday work!

[Andy608]

Hello, can you please provide an example of how to get the second camera to work? I've run into this same issue, but when I try to render to a second camera I can't seem to render both the world camera and UI camera at the same time. I am using Unity 2022.3.20 LTS.