Question Pixel art feels "blurry" when moving the camera

Hello, first of all I would like to say that I implemented everything that I found online specially what the documentation say about seting up cinemachine + pixel perfect camera.

When I set up cinemachine to follow my player the tilemap gets a this laggy kinda blurry effect:
https://imgur.com/a/XbL3NYd

It's hard to detect at a first glance, but when you play with this happening for some time it's definitely noticeable. I've tryed another engine that has pixel compatibility out of the box and the difference is there, I came back to unity again because I really like the how the physics and rigidbody mechanic is in Unity.

I would really like to continue developing in Unity, is there any way of fixing this?

Let me know if you need the project to reproduce it, I have made a small one for this purpose.

 

Is your sprite filter type Point? Click your sprite > Filter Type, change it to Point. Hope this helps

 

Also, I looked at your Imgur link, and I don't see any blur. It looks like a great game!

 

Yes it is

Like I said it's kinda hard to tell, but if you move around there is definetly some lag/blur it's hard to explain because I dont know exactly what it is. My friend was the first one to spot this so I dont think that it is a problem with my perspective on the issue, when I put unity and the other engine side by side (or one after another, thats how I tested) it's easier to see.

And thank you for the compliment on the game

 

Not trying to be mean, but if it's kinda hard to see, then maybe it can stay the same and seem normal to players.

 

And also when you finish the game, can I have a link to an installer or the ZIP file? Thanks!

 

Try to put compression to none

 

We’re you able to find a solution to this? I’m running into the same thing. It’s not the end of the world, but definitely makes it feel a bit less polished.

 

Have you already tried this by any chance?

https://forum.unity.com/threads/sprites-blurred-while-moving-with-cinemachine.959967/#post-6672907

 

Hopefully unity can address this. I also have this problem where my tilemaps look blurry whenever the character moves and cinemachine is in smart/fixed update mode. However when changing to late update mode for cinemachine everything looks crisp except that the player is now the one that is blurry, even when changing my character movement update to late or update.

 

Apologies for being unclear with my intentions, but what could be addressed are what you mentioned such as the difference in updates (fixed vs late) that lead to this blurriness especially in the official unity docs and remedies that can help alleviate this issue so all 2D developers can benefit from this. I'll write my thoughts and my solution to this issue for others.

My setup:
Unity 2019.4.40f1
Used before 2D Pixel Perfect Package 2.1.0

Issue:
The pixel perfect package does not fully address this and even causes issues of sudden jitter in the game. When moving the camera along with the character that is updating at fixed update, the camera causes other sprites/tiles/etc to have a certain blurriness most likely because of the rendering, which is why the late update works for them but not for the player that moves at the fixed update. Also if the PPU does not match the correct camera size, it leads to some pixel distortion (which can be addressed by pixel perfect package but causes additional issues).

Solution for problem (maybe not the same with anyone elses):
The only thing that alleviated this issue was having the rigidbody2d interpolate setting turned on and be moved at fixed update (not late update) which causes the cinemachine to also move at a late update. Additionally, the different PPU pixel distortion was addressed by a shader/material that does the same as this shader toy (https://www.shadertoy.com/view/ltBGWc). You can see the PPU scaling problem here side by side as well. With this shader, sprites/tiles can achieve pixel perfect at any camera size. Hopefully this helps some people who encounter the same issues and are looking for a solution.

 

This has always been a issue.There are so many issues with Cinemachine + PixelPerfect camera. Especially if your PPU is 8 or 16. Do pixelsnapping on sprites. But with cinemachine is get worse. I am working on a different solution to this.

 

Any updates?

 

Nothing. Still same issue. Seems Unity can't handle this at this stage

 

Always test your monitor with this.

https://www.testufo.com/mprt#backgr...d=ffffff&size=12&thickness=2&pursuit=0&ppf=12

If it's blurry then it's not Unity, it's your monitor.

@MelvMay has addressed the other issues that could cause stutter and not blur when moving, meaning things are not sync'd or interpolated properly especially when using physics.