Any tips for 4k rendering optimization?

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Is there anything out the box that is useful for resolution scaling on different display resolutions? Working on a client project targeting 4k but we don’t have AMD FSR or Nvidia DLSS on the web from what I can see. Do you guys use anything to limit resolution or upscale the view?

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by user 103054507105067008

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I’m almost thinking like a clamp on resolution to say don’t render natively higher than 1920x1080

by user 103054507105067008

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The resolution is defined by the domElement width and height where the needle-engine component is in. You could call this.context.renderer.setSize(width, height) to change that programmatically (this.context.domWidth gives you the current size)

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Sweet, would that still scale okay if the screen is 4k? Will test this afternoon :+1:

by user 103054507105067008

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Right now you would need some additional css to make the renderer canvas scale, in js you could do it like this
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gives you this beautiful rendering (0.1 scale just for testing)

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Super useful, thanks!

by user 103054507105067008

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will add this.context.resolutionScaleFactor for the next version

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That’s brilliant, makes it easier to change that between projects and keep it consistent

by user 103054507105067008

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I guess I would read the screen resolution in code and set it appropriately if the resolution is above 1920x1080 I could half the scale factor or similar

by user 103054507105067008

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Yes. this.context.domWidth will still be your actual resolution

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@ROBYER1 just published

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wondering - can we adjust the filtering applied to the scaled renderer?

by user 540540751424258048

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@marcel :cactus: there’s also
renderer.setPixelRatio(window.devicePixelRatio * scaleFactor);
in three which is important to get Retina rendering and such right, we could expose that as well I guess

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You mean like an additional devicePixelRatioFactor?

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maybe? since that’s already a renderer scale. not sure

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This seems to be affected by windows 11 window scaling e.g. 250% at 4k res is close to 125% at 1920x1080 resolution with this value. Should I use another way to read screen size instead?

by user 103054507105067008

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window.screen.availWidth is better, but it is still affected by Windows 11 scaling in display settings

by user 103054507105067008

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Using this function I can get the actual screen dimensions! Would be very useful to have some callback for it maybe. As if I used the other callbacks I listed above, I wouldn’t know the real resolution of the screen the content was running on (on a 4k laptop the build is very laggy vs 1920 x 1080)

    getResolution() {
        const realWidth = window.screen.width * window.devicePixelRatio;
        const realHeight = window.screen.height * window.devicePixelRatio;
        console.log(`Your screen resolution is: ${realWidth} x ${realHeight}`);
      }

by user 103054507105067008

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Ah nice, thanks for figuring it out :slightly_smiling_face: