HQX(1)

👑 hqx — high quality upscaling program for pixel-art 💖

okay bestie, welcome to section 1 of the User Commands manual, and lemme tell you, this one is a bop. it's called hqx and it's here to make your tiny crunchy pixel art look absolutely ✨stunning✨.

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🎀 NAME 🎀

hqx — a high quality upscaling program for pixel-art 🦋

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🌸 SUMMARY 🌸

hqx [-s SCALE] INPUT OUTPUT

that's it. that's the whole vibe. three little pieces and you're done 💅

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so like, hqx is a high quality pixel-art upscaling program, and the way that it does it?? it's using hqx, which is literally one of the pixel art scaling algorithms developed by Maxim Stepin. iconic behavior, no cap. 🫶

you feed it pixels, it gives you back more pixels, and they actually look good. it's giving glow-up. it's giving main character energy. ⭐

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -s SCALE — the scale factor to use, bestie. the supported values are 2, 3 and 4. if you just… don't pass it at all, it defaults to 4. 🍓

ngl if you omit -s you're getting a 4x upscale whether you planned for it or not. so if you wanted 2 or 3, say it with your chest. 🙈

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

(no see-also refs in this one, bestie — it's a one-girl show 💅)

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so yeah. -s for the scale, an INPUT, an OUTPUT, and you're literally done. go make your sprites gorgeous. 💖✨🎀

this page came to you from the User Commands corner of the manual, dated 2021-11-21, and yeah, it's HQX(1) — mwah, periodt. 👑🌺💀