Mega Bezel Reflection Shader! - Feedback and Updates

[frenki]

What core are you using? I only know mame (native) or retrarch-mame to emulate CD-i in a convenient way. When using mame you can access the menu with |TAB]. Here you can switch between different displays. One of them is without the extra information on top. So it’s not an retroardch or shader option, you use the interal option gui of the emulator. I used this option when playing “the apprentice”.

I think the same applies for the retroarch mame core. You can enter the internal gui options with [TAB] as well, afaik. Maybe you have to enable or disalbe internal keypresses with [SCROLL-LOCK] first.

[HyperspaceMadness]

@BendBombBoom

Is there a way to scale the frame over the game screen to crop it correctly?

So I think the thing you will want to do this is use the cropping to remove the black bars, then change the aspect ratio in the shader to match the proper aspect ratio of the resulting cropped image then change the scale to reduce the image size to the size you want to view it on the screen.

So in this case it looks like the aspect ratio of the image after cropping would be something like 1.77, then to have it appear the same size on the screen as you see here the non-integer scale would probably be something like 60%

Keep in mind that the cropping is not working on all shaders yet, I think it works 100% on easymode and partially on guest-venom (has problems with bottom cropping), and it’s not implemented yet on royale or guest-sm.

[HyperspaceMadness]

@Tromzy

Is anyone experiencing heavy flickering with Flycast when using latest HSM-Bezel-Royale shader ?

Were you using it with no flickering before, and now it is showing flickering?

Just a guess but it be that the interlacing is being turned on by the resolution and that is what looks flickery. If it’s the interlacing you can try turning “Interlacing - Toggle” to 0…

[Tromzy]

Yes, that was it ! Thanks a lot !

[BendBombBoom]

@frenki I’m using the mame core. I can get the CD-I logo to go away but those awesome Zelda games have black bars on the top and bottom. (For that true cinema effect.) Doing what @HyperspaceMadness suggested worked. (And for real games too like Vagrant Story.) I can finally play the zelda classics they way Phillips intended them to be played.

[Duimon]

Duimon - HSM Reflection Shader - Graphics - Feedback and Updates

Gamecube has been updated. I tweaked the bevel highlights a bit. (They were bugging me. ) [Gamecube_Update1]

[STAiNLESS]

is there a solution to why atari 2600 shows in vert mode? stella core

[frenki]

Well, I think that the automatic aspect recognition does’nt always work correctly. The standard value for ASPECT RATIO MODE is set to “AUTO”, which will fail in some cases.

I’ve got the same problem with MAME and horizontal games. Just set aspect ratio mode to “1” and it will most likely work (for me at least it does)

[HyperspaceMadness]

@frenki

I’ve got the same problem with MAME and horizontal games. Just set aspect ratio mode to “1” and it will most likely work (for me at least it does)

This is correct, the reason it is this way for ATARI is because the vertical resolution is much higher than you would normally expect it to be for something that was played on a horizontal monitor.

@frenki, do you have an example on a MAME horizontal game which exhibits this problem? I don’t think I’ve run into it there before.

[frenki]

“Moon Patrol” for example, it defaults to vertical.

[Duimon]

Duimon - HSM Reflection Shader - Graphics - Feedback and Updates

Thank you! These shaders look amazing! I’m putting it out there. If anyone wants to add these reflect shaders to my realistic arcade bezels you’re welcome to. I give permission. I just ask for credit for me and the others involved if you’re gonna post it for download or make a video.

[Duimon]

Duimon - HSM Reflection Shader - Graphics - Feedback and Updates

Hi everyone. Here’s a new one! [Dreamcast] SEGA Dreamcast. And my first alternate… [Dreamcast_Alt] For anyone willing to sacrifice a bit of screen real estate for a little added bling! (Requires 0% frame opacity and some Non-integer % scaling.)

[GemaH]

Is there a way to make the shader ignore the given resolution and display scanlines as a fixed one, say 320 x 240?

I have a problem with Mupen64plus-next, i use 640x480 resolution because 320 x 240 is far too blocky but the shader makes it look like high-res because it takes that 640 x 480 into account. I used CRT-Geom before and that shader doesn’t care what resolution you have, it always diplays the scanlines like a low-res 320 x 240 but the games don’t look blocky because “natively” they are 640 x 480.

How can i achieve the same effect with the reflection shader?

[HyperspaceMadness]

Possibly the Resolution Independent Scanlines would achieve this, This would need to be worked into the shader chain, probably in the prep after the CRT image is generated

[Syh]

If you can spare a setting space, you could just use scanline resolution multiplier from my repo. It’d only work for guest-dr-venom though so you may be better off with what you were planning.

[HyperspaceMadness]

The Mega Bezel is updates to V2020-05-16-0

Changes:

• Top Image Opacity Mask and and Blend modes added so textures can be placed on top of the screen, or outside of the screen, or on the frame. Thanks to @Duimon for his input and testing on this feature
• New Screen Vignette, using the one @syh recommended.
• Phosphor Persistence from Mame_hlsl which seems to be working well
• Lut Colors added to all presets, you can now turn on lut colors, it is using the Other1 LUT from torrid gristle. This works on all but Royale because royale doesn’t have any texture slots left to use. Overall this seems to give better blues
• Color Controls added , Luminance, Gamma, Saturation, Temperature from Guest-Venom to all presets
• Gamma at the end to control final brightness of everything including Frame & Background, basically something that you might tweak between different monitors, or day vs night
• Glass Presets for Easymode & Royale
• MDapt parameter now chooses between none, strict, relaxed and stripes to have a more permissive treatment.
• GTU Switch is now in one parameter, Off, On, Composite
• Debug printing is now larger at larger core res.
• Debug now shows the version and the non-integer scale. This can be useful, so you can turn on integer scale, then check the debug to see what the non-integer scale percentage is for this size on the monitor
• Royale version currently has an issue with where the vignette is not working, I’ll figure out what this. Royale is touchy I think because it has so many full res passes, and I’m running into wacky buffer corruption bits
• Some parameter names updated, notably the screen corner & the overlay image is now top image
• You will need to update your presets

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Debug Info

Phosphor Persistence

Top Image in Add Mode

Screen Vignette

Regular Colors

LUT Colors

New Color Controls

@HyperspaceMadness

Here’s a link to the package

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AlJgyN_LYasyoIxcS8s6B2gH947dQg?e=1M2dzs

Set your video driver to Vulcan or GLCore

Set your video aspect ratio to your monitor resolution and set integer scale to OFF

Installation Instructions

• If you have previous versions of the Mega Bezel installed:
  • Delete shaders/shaders_slang/crt/shaders/HyperspaceMadness
  • Delete all hsm presets from shaders/shaders_slang/crt
• Inside the .zip is a shaders folder, drop this shaders folder directly over your existing one and everything will go into the right place
• Set video driver to Vulcan or GLCore
• Set video aspect ratio to your monitor resolution and set integer scale to OFF
• Load a preset in the shaders menu, mega bezel shaders are found in shaders_slang/crt

[Syh]

Just curious which vignette? As I sorta recommended two, one was the fancy one @frenki was messing with (which is modified from mame-hlsl, then there’s the one I’m using in my repo (which is entirely different, it’s the one I posted for @Dogway that he then modified for grade), lol.

I enjoy mame’s phosphor shader alot as you may know. (It’s in my repo, lol)

[HyperspaceMadness]

@Syh

Just curious which vignette?

It’s the one from shadertoy

[Duimon]

That Phosphor Persistence looks awesome! This looks like a really hard won update. Thank you and Congratulations!

[Syh]

@HyperspaceMadness

Which pass is the vignette in? I’d like to compare how your implementing it, as me and Dogway are applying it differently from each other.

Also could you point me to the mame phosphor persistence as well? (There’s so much code to wade through, lol.)

Edit: Found both but now I’m trying figure out where it actually applies the phosphor persistence.