I’ve been using this a lot more than I expected, it’s great considering how light and easy to run it is. Thank you for making it.
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Hello guys! I’m about to get Anbernic RG406V, which has a 960×720 screen resolution, and I’d love your suggestion on which version of the shader would be best suited for this device - would you recommend using fakelottes-geom-mini or fakelottes-geom for a 720p screen? Does ‘mini’ means it’s made for handhelds? Geom (not mini) says in description about sub-HD res
Thanks in advance for your advice and for creating such a fantastic-looking shader!
For those of you who, like me, appreciate the look and speed of Fakelottes, I created a shader preset that also adds a lightweight NTSC shader pass to it, which will add the characteristic Composite or S-Video look and allow it to better display effects like the iconic Sonic Waterfall.
The NTSC shader pass I used is not resource-intensive, I used the lightest one I found but that still provided a consistent look between the GLSL and Slang versions. More advanced NTSC shades would give a better and more accurate look, but they also are more demanding (like ntsc-adaptive.slangp), so I gave up on using them since the focus here is on being lightweight and fast.
It still ran on a cheap low-end Android device from 2021 that I had (that according to some reviews I read, apparently is comparable to the Raspberry Pi 4 in performance), so I thought more people might appreciate it and submitted a PR to the repository some months ago, already merged.
You can find it in /shaders_glsl/presets/fakelottes-ntsc* if you’re using GL as video driver, and in /shaders_slang/presets/crt-plus-signal/fakelottes-ntsc* if you’re using Vulkan, GLCore or D3DXX as video driver.
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Just to add some extra info to my comment above. By default, it doesn’t do the dithering effect that well, but you can change that by going to Shader Parameters>Luma Resolution.
The default value is set to 1.60, and it looks like this:
With it set to 0.80, it looks like this:
I didn’t change this in the preset because I think it’s up to the user to decide how they want the image. I like Super Nintendo games with the default value of 1.60, but I prefer Genesis/Mega Drive games at about ~0.80.
Also, I want to give a big thank you to metallic77/DariusG on GitHub, who developed the ntsc_module.slang for his CRT-Consumer-1w shader, and allowed me to use it in this preset for Fakelottes (originally, I used the great ntsc-adaptive.slangp, but unfortunately it caused a performance hit on my weak Android).
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