Using those masks on a phone is a bold move! Any chance you have a pair of decent second hand eyes to give away?
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hahahaha and yet I found them beautiful, even if it’s actually true, on my 24 inch it’s a different story. However, everything was born as a benchmark, and the lightness of your work continues to leave me surprised every time I see it. With other shaders I am unable to play PSX on my current phone.
A question: do you think your “Monitor FXAA” preset is also suitable for emulating Computer Amiga or MS-Dos? I would also like to dedicate myself and emulate these machines.
The question arises from the fact that I discovered that PC monitors use a sort of double scan line on Dos contents, although it may not be useful given that your presets use FXAA which in itself smoothes out the image.
I emulate Amiga without issues, it is a bit higher in gpu use because uae core defaults to double the X resolution, but you can rever that in the core settings.
Ms-Dos, on the other side uses 31Khz monitors; as I remember there were no visible scanlines and the image was damn sharp and blocky, so if you want to recreate that look, then a simple rgb-mask without scanlines nor fxaa, nor any smooth is the way to go.
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Got it, thanks so much for your advice!
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I wanted to ask if there is a way to use the Generic-Handheld-RGB shader without integer scaling. When I turn integer scaling off in the shader settings it will make a weird pattern on the mask.
Hi there, hard to tell without a screen, but My Crystall ball ™ suggests that you have to play with:
(horizontal mask)
phosphors width min/max and min-max gamma
and/or
(scanlines)
phosphors height min/max and min->max gamma
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I forgot the picture😅 but it was ‘phosphors width min/max’. Now it looks correct. Thank you
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I’m unable to get the artifacts:
can you tell me how to reproduce, so that i can tune the preset to survive non integer scaling?
10x!
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Strange on screenshots it’s not that visible. You can see it much better in motion in scenes like this.
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At the start of Lady Sia I can see it clearly on that wall if I move right or left
I’ve seen this preset a few post earlier. Will you release this one? It looks really good.
Monitor-FXAA-sharp-Aperturegrille.slangp
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Thanks, will check it out.
About the preset, if i’m not wrong there were some moire problems, so i did the (core)slotmask variant that tricks the eye and mitigates it.
Will give it a look.
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There you go, had to lower the overmask strength, it attracts moire patterns like honey for bees.
Monitor-FXAA_sharp-aperturegrille.slangp
(Un)fortunately, i cannot spot it; what settings exactly fixes it on your side?
If I put ‘phosphors+gap’ count to 3 it makes it much less visible. But it changes thr mask a little.
That’s because the vertical gap is halved.
What if you just switch from Mask type preset = 0 to 4 or 6?
At last, release 1.0-NG is up on github and submitted to be included in official update channel.
Changelog is quite big this time:
Main changes from 4.1
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Low level phosphor-grid which superseedes scanlines, vertical and horizontal mask. provides more features and is much more flexible by allowing to emulate common masks and freely draft new ones.
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Add a new overmask preset to increase the whole visible mask (at the price of moire patterns on lower resolution).
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Add a new Spark look punch to increase the vertical mask effect.
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Allow to vertically stagger single phosphors to better emulate y-deconvercence.
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Allow to change vertical and horizontal mask gamma.
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Spot is now painted over the whole tube when using bezels and not just on the game content.
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Improved reflection look.
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Workaround for Flycast + Nvidia + Glcore + Ambient light not playing well (that was tough).
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Ambient light scene changes are not instantaneous.
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Selective NTSC artifacts blurring: inverted logic/workflow.
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Switched to my own curvature function.
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Luminosity tied zoom now has an hardcoded range.
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Add an option to show “basal” unexcited phosphors grid.
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Allow to use negative blurring parameters to switch from gaussian to box + (eventually) unsharp mask.
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Input gain is not tied to glow feature anymore, moved to color correction section.
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Prevent bloom from color shifting high tones due to color temperature.
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Allow to pre-attenuate gain levels before applying halo. That way it does not change whan changing gain and may help in avoiding cascading effects when drafting presets.
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Overhauled nightify function.
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Allow to widen the ambient light effect without pushing led power
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Allow to set virtual led position.
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New ambient light “immersive” preset.
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Now ambient light bezel and/or background image colorization can use two blend modes, multiply and add (see foggy parametter)
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New active (not used because prone to change) parameter to clear dot masks betweeb scanlines (dedot).
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Ambient light does not depend on color/brightness corrections anymore, set it (once) and forget.
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Debanding is now applied on green component only.
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Ported all old preset to new code.
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Made new presets to show different masks possibilities.
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Experimental delta render to save on battery powered devices which only render zones of the screen that has been changed Statically disabled.
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Allow to set minimum lines to detect interlaced content by runtime parameter.
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Add overlay-powered handhelds presets for: Gamegear,Gameboy Advance, Gameboy mono and Gameboy mono pocket.
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More colorful Ambient lights.
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Dot Matrix strength has now an “auto” parameter that adapt the grid steepness to the viewport size to mitigate glitches.
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I found mask type 2 works the best. In most games I’m not seeing it only when there is a solid color and higher contrast but with mask 2 it looks like fine and the mask still looks the same to me. Thank you
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Nice. Looking forward to trying out the new goodies. Been using the slotmask bloom version a lot lately
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Spectacular work, I’m especially loving your NG TV presets, they’re perfect. Thank you with all my heart !
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“Hello, great job! However, I have a problem. Before, I could put games like 1941 in vertical mode, but now I can’t do it anymore. I forced the TATE, but I can’t get the vertical mode. I checked MAME’s options, I tried with the ‘libertro’ option and the ‘internal’ option, but it didn’t work either.”
