Resolution recommendations?

[Vixx]

Just curious what resolutions other players use for different sizes of custom puzzles. I know bigger is better, but I'm wondering what people think the sweet spot is that looks good without demanding too much from your GPU.

[Personal Finest Shawn]

Hey, to give you an idea of GPU use our images that come with the game are very high resolution (for video games). Some of them are over 10,000 pixels in width. We did this because we allow puzzles for any size so a 1K,3K, or 10K plus puzzle still needs detail in the pieces.

However this all depends on the size of puzzle you are working on. At lower piece count you can have lower resolution images. I'd say depending on the image a 1920x1080 image (typically what you can find on the internet) would work fine for a 600 piece puzzle or even more.

For GPU use if you can do the default puzzles you should be fine with most reasonable image sizes as ours are very large (over 90% of the game file size is images).
We did run into a problem of people running out of VRAM and their room textures turning blurry from hanging a lot of puzzles on the wall, but in the last update we added in lower res images just for the wall hangings. We still need to implement that for custom images as well so just be careful until then :).


Other things to look for in having an image that is good for Jiggin'.

Most obvious is sections of different color so you are able to sort pieces by color and work on separate sections. Most ideal is main sections of color that inside those sections have obvious difference in shades from there.

If at all possible avoid photographs with focus blur. Blurry areas of photos are not very fun to do.

Horizontal and vertical lines in the image go a long way to helping you do a puzzle. For instance this puzzle from our default pack:
https://i.imgur.com/P0tLBIf.jpeg
Looks difficult at first glance from all the similar yellow color. However when testing I found it really easy to do because of all the lines to follow. Just line up all the pieces with a bit of white on the top and put them together in rows. Then fill in the spaces.

Hope that helps. And if you wanted to check out a workshop image with high resolution, this tapes one my brother uploaded is 7000x4600 and at 3,000 pieces was perfectly clear still.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2856581073

[Vixx]

Thanks very much, that's exactly the info I needed. Love the game!