Mega Bezel Reflection Shader! - Feedback and Updates

[MrBlastman]

Yes they were. When you pressed a channel button they were mid-bright green, if that makes any sense. One could only press one at a time, of course. The power light was red, I believe, as well.

What was neat is one could actually change the button numbers with plastic inserts provided by the television set, and behind the front panel were digital tuning buttons for VHF and UHF stations, which went through a nifty process of making noise and cycling some colored lights.

That would be awesome if you could port this set into your collection!

[MrBlastman]

Thank you Sir.

[RetroGames4K]

Is there a way to low the screen a bit down? I like this option too, but the screen is more cutted off at the top…

[Duimon]

@MrBlastman

That would be awesome if you could port this set into your collection!

Now that is definitely a request. I will put it at the top of my new list.

Thanks for the color info. I will ask your opinion when I post a WIP. (Although it may be a month or so before I get to work on it.)

[MrBlastman]

Fantastic.

Someone posted some footage on Youtube, actually, of the set in action:

Unbelievable Rare Find Vintage Sony Trinitron 19" KV-1946R & 32" Sony...

You can see the true color for the keypad there. I almost forgot: in the top right there is that dark box and within showed a thin, broken line for volume, and as you increased the volume additional segments would light up. This was also a green LED bar.

[HyperspaceMadness]

@RetroGames4K

By the way, there’s a bug in the Box Blur option. when it’s on, an artifact comes when you move horizontally

Can you post images of this?

@RetroGames4K

Is there a way to low the screen a bit down? I like this option too, but the screen is more cutted off at the top…

There is a position y in the parameter list after the scaling options that you can use

If you want the screen smaller then you can change the parameters in the scaling sections

[RetroGames4K]

@HyperspaceMadness

Can you post images of this?

Yes, here you go… Blur on 1

Blur on 2

Blur on 3

Blur off

Check the “N” on the score with blur on and off… It’s more noticeable when the screen moves horizontally…

[Hari-82]

Love your preset! is there a chance to try it?

[MrBlastman]

Yep, link is in the post above to download.

[RetroGames4K]

Wow! This dedither option is amazing!.. Looks awesome!!!

[Hari-82]

Yes I did download it already but is a preset that reference another preset

#reference “FIX2 MEGA Snes Test.slangp”

HSM_SCREEN_VIGNETTE_ON = “0.000000”

[HyperspaceMadness]

@RetroGames4K

Wow! This dedither option is amazing!.. Looks awesome!!!

Yeah! I think that is @Hyllian’s you have there, he did an amazing job on it you should take a look at his saturn examples, pretty fantastic stuff

Checkerboard-Dedither shader

Yes, I’ll add that switch in the next version. BTW, it works well with saturn transparencies: [sat1] [sat2] [sat3] [sat4] [sat5] [sat6] [sat7] [sat8] [sat9] [sat10] [sat11]

Also I need to add the switch to control if it is done in gamma space, I’m curious if this could be adjustable, basically how much gamma is used while doing the blending to make it adjustable how much transparencies are shifted darker.

[MrBlastman]

Ah yes good catch! Here is the correct one.

Sorry about that.

https://mega.nz/file/aR9BiJLK#Ich09QTl18F3RZuClOC5hzt5ZRSV42TphB0cKAmYHO0

[Hari-82]

No problem man! thanks for sharing!

[HyperspaceMadness]

@HyperspaceMadness

I’m curious if this could be adjustable, basically how much gamma is used while doing the blending to make it adjustable how much transparencies are shifted darker.

So I did the experiment and it is looking pretty interesting, What it is doing is just adjusting the gamma before the de-dithering, then the gamma adjustment is reset afterward. Since most of the dithered transparent objects, e.g. clouds, waterfall, lights are generally much brighter than the background adjusting the bias towards a a darker blend results makes it look more transparent.

Here’s a photo of a CRT with the sonic waterfall

With a default setting for the brightness bias for the transparent amount

Then a series of different settings on the brightness Bias

Of course not ever dithered effect is brighter than the background

Bias at 50

Bias at a default 100

Bias at 200

It’s pushed to my Github if anyone wants to try it out

[Hyllian]

Hi, @HyperspaceMadness. Is this bias a lower gamma value? (I’ll put a gamma switch and probably gamma value as params in cb-d asap)

[RetroGames4K]

@HyperspaceMadness

Yeah! I think that is @Hyllian’s you have there, he did an amazing job on it you should take a look at his saturn examples, pretty fantastic stuff

Yes, it’s really good… By the way… Did you check the pics above of the blur option bug? It’s the Terminator CD game… In that game is where I saw it most, but happens in every game…

[HyperspaceMadness]

@Hyllian

Is this bias a lower gamma value?

Yes that’s right, the 100 corresponds to a gamma of 1.3 used to linearize before, then delinearize after.

So if I actually used the gamma value instead of a 100 oriented range then 2.4 would be the same as just running it in linear space, and the default gamma value I’m using here would be 1.3, and 1 would be running without any gamma adjustment on the input.

[HyperspaceMadness]

@RetroGames4K

Yes, it’s really good… By the way… Did you check the pics above of the blur option bug? It’s the Terminator CD game… In that game is where I saw it most, but happens in every game…

Yes I took a look at the images, it’s strange that I’ve never seen an artifact like this with the box blur before.

I’ll have to look into it, I’m not sure if I will be able to fix it though as I didn’t write the box blur.

[RetroGames4K]

@HyperspaceMadness

Yes I took a look at the images, it’s strange that I’ve never seen an artifact like this with the box blur before.

I’ll have to look into it, I’m not sure if I will be able to fix it though as I didn’t write the box blur.

Just to let you know, I have an RTX 2070 with latest drivers. I have vulkan on. And a 4k screen…