Scaled sprites don't look good

RetrocadeNet

I am evaluating Godot for making some future games in it and I've stumbled upon something I can't understand about smoothing. I think it's best to explain it with an image:#1 - Filtered, #2 - No filter, Starling is an Actionscript 3.0 GPU rendering engine[img width=750 height=171]http://godotdevelopers.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=15728.0;attach=2400;image[/img]And in action (Godot):[img width=104 height=123]http://godotdevelopers.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=15728.0;attach=2406;image[/img]In action (Starling):[img width=104 height=176]http://godotdevelopers.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=15728.0;attach=2407;image[/img]Perhaps it's subjective but I believe it looks way better in Starling - the hair and the shape of the circle does not fluctuate as much. I can't really say what is the source of the problem but I really would like to have smoother and less jarring filtering. Is there any way to fix this? I know I can enable mipmaps, but then it breaks down completely and looks awful, completely blurred.

RetrocadeNet

I guess I kinda figured out the solution to my problem myself. If I enable mipmaps it actually behaves the same as in Starling, but the problem is that enabled mipmaps make the base sprite smoother which is a problem with small sprites. If the sprite is much bigger the effect is ignorable.