What made Sega Saturn textures look like that
- Quads instead of triangles, textures drawn as distorted sprites
- 15-bit RGB and 4/8-bit palettes
- Mesh (checkerboard) transparency instead of blending
Sega Saturn texture filter
Sharp sprite-like textures with 15-bit color and mesh transparency.
Preset settings
| Resolution | 64×64 |
|---|---|
| Palette | 32 colors (median) |
| Dithering | bayer2 |
| 15-bit color | yes |
| Downscale | nearest |
Every value can be tweaked in the editor; drop in your own photo or texture to convert it.
Other styles
- PlayStation 1Low resolution, 15-bit color, 4/8-bit indexed palettes and the GPU's 4×4 ordered dither.
- Nintendo 64Tiny textures limited by 4 KB of texture memory, soft colors and smooth gradients.
- DOS / QuakeOne shared 256-color palette, gritty brown tones, no dithering.
- Build engineDuke3D/Blood-like look: 256-color palette, crisp pixels and strong contrast.