Mega Bezel Reflection Shader! - Feedback and Updates

[Duimon]

@lazostat

he says to put integer scale to ON, but here i read to put it on OFF.

Integer scale needs to be off in the retroarch video settings. Setting it to on or off in the shader is a personal preference.

Integer scale jumps around a lot and can be quite restrictive on a 1080 display. (It does help with moire.)

@lazostat

Also, do i read the readme.txt for the best up-to-date settings and installation or somewhere else?

The readme.md just explains what the settings do. “Best” is subjective and it doesn’t include any recommendations, for that you’ll have to play around a bit. The defaults are acceptable, until you gain more experience and get fussy.

@lazostat

Lastly, it’s the same thing to just download the file from here and to download it from retroarch in the slang presets?

There is a versioning bug but the end result is the same. (If by, “from here”, you mean the link to the GitHub release.)

[Kefka2b]

Can you point me to the specific settings please?

[Cyber]

@Kefka2b

Can you point me to the specific settings please?

@HyperspaceMadness

WHAT DOES EACH PRESET DO?

• Try this preset to start: Mega_Bezel/Presets/MBZ__3__STD.slangp
• Presets are named and organized based on capability and performance
• The most performance heavy presets’ names start with MBZ__0__SMOOTH-ADV and then lighter presets have higher numbers, ending in MBZ__5__POTATO
• For details see the README here https://github.com/HyperspaceMadness/Mega_Bezel

@HyperspaceMadness

INSTALLING ADDITIONAL PRESET/GRAPHIC COLLECTIONS

• Create a folder named Mega_Bezel_Packs in the root of the shaders folder, the final path of this should be `Retroarch/shaders/Mega_Bezel_Packs
• Place any of the additional collections inside this folder
• For example the final path to the examples pack should be Retroarch/shaders/Mega_Bezel_Packs/HSM_Mega_Bezel_Examples

I suggest you read over the readme.md file.

@HyperspaceMadness

THANKS TO THE SHADER WRITERS!

The Mega Bezel uses a number of shaders written by awesome shader writers from the community:

• Guest.r (Guest-Advanced crt shader)
• Hyllian (Super-XBR & Checkerboard DeDither)
• Sp00kyFox (Scalefx & MDAPT DeDither)
• EasyMode
• CGCW (LCD Grid)
• DariusG (GDV Mini)
• Dogway (Grade Color Correction)
• aliaspider (GTU)
• Trogglemonkey (Royale 3D Curvature)
• Flyguy (Text Shadertoy)
• A special thanks to hunterk for porting a number of these and helping me with his expertise along the way!

@HyperspaceMadness

Blend that Waterfall!!! De-Dithering with MDAPT

No blending of dithering

Blended dithering

Contour Smoothing Scale-FX smooths

[Kefka2b]

Thanks but looks like MDAPT is not available in recent versions, I found the setting, it is the HYLLIAN-SGENPT-MIX-DE-DITHERING, by default it is set to Checkerboard only, I have now set it to both (Checkerboard and Vertical Lines) which also blends the waterfall, and that doesn’t really impact the rest of the image (or just slightly), I hope it doesn’t produce some unwanted effects elsewhere, as I created a base preset for all my plaftorms. I’ll figure it out hopefully or won’t notice it

[Cyber]

@Kefka2b

HYLLIAN-SGENPT-MIX-DE-DITHERING

This is an updated and improved version of MDAPT. It does everything MDAPT did and more.

@Kefka2b

I hope it doesn’t produce some unwanted effects elsewhere

That’s not possible with heuristic algorithm based approaches to dedithering.

If you don’t want false positives or any weirdness, it’s better to use something like the GDV-ADV-NSTC base presets or Blargg NTSC Video Filter Presets from the Settings–»Video–»Video Filter Menu in conjunction with whatever Base Preset you’re currently using.

For more advanced video filter presets you can download my CyberLab Custom Blargg NTSC Video Filter Presets pack.

[Kefka2b]

Awesome thanks for the info.

[tr3v0rb]

bezel project = win mega bezel = win duimon presets = win

triple win! Awesome work all

I am using it on retroach mame only. Every time I load a new game, I have to reapply the shaders. I saved a core config, did not work

any ideas anyone?

Cheers!

[Duimon]

Are you using my Bezel Project presets?

[tr3v0rb]

I am indeed! It’s the only one that works flawlessly with the bezel project

[Duimon]

@tr3v0rb

any ideas anyone

Did you follow my install instructions to use a temporary install of retroarch to run the bezel project installer?

My concern is that some of the installer’s scripts have written interfering configs.

[tr3v0rb]

I did not follow those instructions, lol.

Thanks for the heads up, will restart

[RetroBoy100]

I used retroarch version 1.19.1. I installed version 1.21.0 today and I discovered that the shaders have too strong colors! Here are two photos for comparison:

RetroArch 1.21.0

RetroArch 1.19.1

What can you do to make it look like it did before??

[RetroBoy100]

No answer? Will there be an update so that the colors are normal in RetroArch 1.21.0? This is related to all shaders here, the colors are not displayed correctly!

[Drybonz]

Have you tried making any adjustments in the settings to get the colors you want? Megabezel isn’t just one set thing, you can make a huge number of adjustments to the image in the F1 menu.

[RetroBoy100]

No, I havent tried any adjustments. Its due to the New version of RetroArch. A check and an update would be the best solution, rather than trying to get the correct colors in the settings. The colors are no longer compatible.

[Duimon]

Depending on the reason it is different, if it is the result of some unintended issue with a Retroarch update, then updating the shader is not the “best” solution.

Even if it was intended, making some small change in the shader parameters to get what you may consider “corect” color is far less arduous that HSM needing to track down the issue and update the shader.

The Mega Bezel is a complex beast, and I am positive that if he were to make the attempt, an update would wait for more changes to accumulate.

[RetroBoy100]

To set the parameters you need some knowledge. Other shaders I use run normally. Why is the HSM no longer working properly with version 1.21.0?

[guest.r]

Wildcards were “repaired” with recent versions, also normal nightly builds come with updated shaders.

You could try to delete the 1.21.0 shader folder and copy 1.19.1 content into it to check if this is the case.

You could also toggle between GLCore and Vulkan RA system drivers, see if it makes a difference.

[RetroBoy100]

Its absolutely awesome! I deleted the shaders “shaders_glsl” + “shaders_slang” and copied the ones from version 1.19.1 into 1.21.0 and it worked thank you very much, @guest.r

[Arcanthur]

Here is my custom preset, based on my 1953MD (No screen curve because the moire pattern drives me insane LOL)