Mega Bezel Reflection Shader! - Feedback and Updates

[Cyber]

@vookvook

It seems like there might be an issue with the shader?

Nope, in this case it’s definitely not. Some of us here literally live with this shader so we’ll probably find issues like these in our daily use and testing if it did in fact have anything to do with the shader.

Try my preset pack which has been tested, verified and vetted by yours truly to work as I expect and see if you have similar results. If you still do then it’s definitely something going on your end. Maybe you might need to setup RetroArch and Mega Bezel again. Remember updating Mega Bezel requires you to delete the old folders.

Try these and see, you can also try with a fresh install and you can report your findings in the CyberLab Mega Bezel Death To Pixels Shader Preset Pack thread.

CyberLab Mega Bezel Death To Pixels Shader Preset Pack

[CyberLab Mega Bezel Death To Pixels Preset Pack Title] [Screenshot_20220408-113722_Chrome] [Screenshot_20220408-114931_Chrome] [Screenshot_20220408-114949_Chrome] [Screenshot_20220408-115001_Chrome] This is a moment some have been waiting for. By popular request, I’m moving my CyberLab Mega Bezel Death To Pixels Shader Preset Pack to it’s new home in it’s own thread! In commemoration of this significant milestone, I’ve included 2 updated versions of my venerable CyberLab Mega Bezel De…

[HyperspaceMadness]

Hi all the survey closes soon on Aug 1st.

Please respond if you are interested in helping influence the future of the Mega Bezel!

Mega Bezel Survey 2022

[mrfomt]

Could I flip the screen, tate mode, with mega bezel? I want bigger screen for vertical games. Have a monitor with a stand that you can easily rotate the monitor. Have not tried yet, must move my hyperspin setup to another PC.

[HyperspaceMadness]

Yes you can do this no problem.

Just set your windows desktop to portrait, and make sure the retroarch video aspect ratio is still set to FULL.

You may also want to set the Preset is for Monitor Portrait Mode to 1 if you are going to use it with an arcade type vertical graphic

[lilbud]

For the glass presets, is there any way to have the borders be a blown up version of the game window as opposed to reflections? Something like this (quick PS mockup).

[HyperspaceMadness]

Yes there is a reflection scale parameter, just increase it and voila

Here it is before:

Here it is scaled:

Here it is on driving games:

HSM Mega Bezel Reflection Shader! - Feedback and Updates

Some more snippets of the new shader, I added scaling and position offset of the shader so you can fake a “widescreen” like effect with driving games, or you can just get a similar effect to what the Big Blur preset does. Kind of fun [Glass_Out Run] [Glass_RoadBlasters] For anyone using the Alpha version of the shader from my Github it’s been updated. and there’s a preset you can try here: bezel\Mega_Bezel\Variations\MBZ__1__GLASS__GUEST-DrVENOM_Driving_Outrun.slangp

[lilbud]

Okay, modified it. Is there a way to remove the little edge on the frame and the diagonal strip in the reflection?

[HyperspaceMadness]

Yeah, start with the Glass-Minimal-Bezel-Edge__ADV-GLASS.slangp preset in the variations folder, and reduce the glass background opacity to 0.

[lilbud]

okay, think I finally got it where I want it. Thanks.

For settings, choose the minimal bezel edge, turn off curve and set integer scale to both axis and the scale to 1. For reflection amount set that from 100 to 150 (for 1080p

another image (excuse the weird timing, windows screenshot tool doesn’t work super well with RA

Heres the preset file if anyone wants it:

#reference "shaders_slang/bezel/Mega_Bezel/Presets/Variations/Glass-Minimal-Bezel-Edge__ADV-GLASS.slangp"
HSM_ASPECT_RATIO_MODE = "5.000000"
HSM_INT_SCALE_MODE = "2.000000"
HSM_INT_SCALE_MULTIPLE_OFFSET = "1.000000"
HSM_CURVATURE_MODE = "0.000000"
HSM_SCREEN_VIGNETTE_ON = "0.000000"
HSM_TUBE_SHADOW_IMAGE_ON = "0.000000"
HSM_SCREEN_REFLECTION_SCALE = "150.000000"
HSM_REFLECT_NOISE_AMOUNT = "0.000000"
HSM_REFLECT_NOISE_SAMPLES = "0.000000"
HSM_REFLECT_NOISE_SAMPLE_DISTANCE = "100.000000"
HSM_GLASS_BORDER_ON = "0.000000"
HSM_REFLECT_VIGNETTE_SIZE = "50.000000"
HSM_BG_BLEND_MODE = "0.000000"

[c9f5fdda06]

Anyone have any experience running HSM with the latest AMD drivers/GPUs? I’m having a hell of a time running with Vulkan, HDMI 2.1 @ 4k 120hz without any shaders (frame skipping) and HSM crashes Retroarch. At my wits end and am considering returning my RX 6650 xt.

[Cyber]

@c9f5fdda06

returning my RX 6650 xt.

Don’t return it just yet. What graphics card did you upgrade from? Did you use DDU before changing graphics cards?

What preset are you trying to use in HSM Mega Bezel Reflection Shader?

What core?

Are you using Native Internal Resolution?

Is the graphics card stable under Unigine Haven, FireStrike, Blender and other benchmarks, stress tests and games?

Lastly, can you post a log file?

[c9f5fdda06]

Yeah, I did the whole shebang. I’m pretty experienced with PC hardware and even though I had some mild issues with AMD (ATI) in the past, I decided to give em a chance. Opengl is stable but then I can’t use HDR. Funny enough I got it mostly for RetroArch since I ended up getting a PS5 during the GPU shortage and don’t intend to spend too much to play mostly the same games. Worse yet, VRR doesn’t work on AMD with my LG C9 (wish I did more research).

[Cyber]

How quickly does it crash? You can try lowering your GPU and VRAM clocks and see if it there is any improvement. Alternatively, you can try lowering the VRAM Clock for the highest P-State then increasing the voltage even all the way and see if it still crashes using AMD Adrenalin Driver’s Performance Tuning section.

[c9f5fdda06]

The games run fine they don’t crash unless I try to load HSM which I think it means AMD has issues with Vulcan. HSM loads just fine under glcore. But as I said before I can’t use HDR with glcore and so it’s kind of a gimped setup. Anyway thanks for chiming in.

[Wolfgang]

Hello! I have a little problem… When I want to play arcade games in 4:3 aspect I have no problem… as seen in the image below… the game runs perfectly and the background image looks fine.

Now the little problem I have is with shooting games. When starting the game, the screen automatically puts it in the aspect ratio of the shooting game I use, in this case the game is Dogyuun, but the same thing happens to me with all shooting games… for me this ratio is perfect aspect… but… my little problem is that it doesn’t detect the background image that I put in the game and by default it shows the black background image that you see below…

My question is what should I do to see the background image in this aspect ratio? By the way, here is an image of how I have the configuration with which I load the shader.

That’s the little problem I have with the background image.

[hgoda90]

For Vertical style games the Background Image is set as BackgroundVertImage. So just change BackgroundImage to BackgroundVertImage in the file.

[Wolfgang]

Thank you!!! Now it works wonders!!!

[HyperspaceMadness]

Yeah, you can also set both BackgroundImage and BackgroundVertImage to the same thing and the background will stay constant.

[LetramChi]

Hello, remind me how is the configuration for vertical games in FBNeo please. Game: 1942 Video Scaling: Integer Off / Aspect Ratio Full / Crop Overscan On

When applying shader aspect ratio vertical and in the Core options I activate the Vertical mode, it looks like this

[HyperspaceMadness]

So what you want can be achieved by:

@HyperspaceMadness

Open the Settings Menu and Set:

• User Interface / Show Advanced Settings to ON
• Video / Scaling / Aspect Ratio to Full
  • This will match your monitor aspect aspect ratio
• Video / Scaling / Integer Scale to OFF
• Video / Output / Video Rotation to Normal
• Core / Allow Rotation to OFF – Important for FB Neo
• Do this before loading content

And for FBNEO turn off vertical mode.

One last note is that you need to set the Rotate CRT Tube parameter to 1

In the presets/variations folder there is a preset already set up like this named FBNEO-Vertical__STD.slangp