Mega Bezel Reflection Shader! - Feedback and Updates

[Cyber]

@TheNamec

@Cyber Nonetheless, I think with a little cranking it may get as good on 1080p as on those marvelous 4k screenshots!

I may already have some settings like that, however real life beckons so a little later for that.

Updated: 6-11-21

1080p (and possibly 1440p) users can now enjoy presets that are optimized for that resolution providing almost the same look and feel of my existing presets which were all designed, tested and targeted towards 4K display users!

CyberLab Mega Bezel Death To Pixels (Composite - Pure 1080p Edition)

CyberLab Mega Bezel Death To Pixels (Arcade - Raw (I think) 1080p Edition)

CyberLab Mega Bezel Death To Pixels (Blending and Transparency 1080p Edition)

CyberLab Mega Bezel Death To Pixels (Arcade - Sharp 1080p Edition)

Click the link below to download

CyberLab Mega Bezel Death To Pixels Shader Preset Pack 6-11-21.zip

[c9f5fdda06]

Good game selection

[Cyber]

Take a look at these @TheNamec and everyone else of course. Lol I made a new preset yesterday - CyberLab Mega Bezel Death To Pixels (Arcade - Raw). It doesn’t use Scale FX but still looks great in my opinion and it takes care of aliasing in different ways. It has a very authentic feel and testing it has been a joy! These new 1080p optimized presets have me a little jealous now because of how good they look and get the job done! I mean, I don’t really have much use for them for myself but I expect that using them and playing at 1080p would give much better performance than playing at 4K with the original ones. I’m glad I can give back something to the community.

I was thinking that they might be a good fit for the non-integer scale bezel presets.

You can check them out by clicking the drop down button in the link below:

Please show off what crt shaders can do!

Oh really? Well when you’re up and running you can try my latest shader presets as well then! CyberLab Mega Bezel Death To Pixels (Arcade - Raw 1080p Edition) [ffight-211106-213342] [ffight-211106-213409] [ffight-211106-213440] [ffight-211106-213447] [ffight-211106-213539] CyberLab Mega Bezel Death To Pixels (Arcade - Sharp 1080p Edition) [ffight-211106-222737] [ffight-211106-222750] [ffight-211106-222831] [ffight-211106-222929] [ffight-211106-223001] [ffight-211106-22310…

@c9f5fdda06

Good game selection

Thanks!

[Wally]

Thank you for this superb pack.

One naive question.

Lets say I want to change the mask to Trinitron. Which file should I edit? Also, should I need to go in each platform and do the same change or can I do it somewhere centrally?

Thank yoy

[Cyber]

@Wally

Thank you for this superb pack.

Is this a question for @HyperspaceMadness about the HSM Mega Bezel Reflection Shader or my recently posted CyberLab Mega Bezel Death To Pixels Shader Preset Pack?

[Duimon]

Either way there shouldn’t be a need to manually edit anything. Just load the shader, call up the shader parameters dialog, make the change to the mask, and save the preset with a new name.

[Wally]

Hi Cyber. For both actually.

[Wally]

Hi Duimon. In your wonderful bezel pack project, should I need to go platform by platform or changing the HSM preset is enough for all platforms?

Thank you

[Duimon]

I don’t use any custom mask in my CRT presets, (I do have some in my LCD systems.)

You will have to edit each one. I would not recommend changing HSMs presets as it will make it hard to update. I would load HSMs GDV preset, make the change and save it. Then do a mass search and replace on the presets to change the reference shader to your saved preset.

Of course you will have to do it again after the next update, but by then you will be a pro.

The next update will break some things, but it should be stable after, and going forward.

If there is enough interest, I would consider adding in a Trinitron preset, I just don’t want to double the number of presets, so I would have to limit it.

Alternatively, you could edit HSMs preset, but the layout is unfriendly. (He cleans up the output when saving a preset.)

Open one of my presets and read the first line to get the path of the reference shader.

[Cyber]

@Wally

Lets say I want to change the mask to Trinitron. Which file should I edit? Also, should I need to go in each platform and do the same change or can I do it somewhere centrally?

Thank yoy

Okay, the way I have my stuff setup is I first have HSM Mega Bezel Reflection Shader installed properly then I have my presets in the \RetroArch\Shaders folder. I load up my Composite - Sharp Preset and save that as a global preset and as a core preset for SNES, TurboGrafx16 and any other core I come across in the future that I want to use it with.

I’m currently experimenting with having my Blending & Transparency Preset as my default Core Preset for Sega Genesis. So far so good. I’m looking for the one that works best in most cases.

For NES I have my Composite - Pure preset saved as the Core Preset and for Arcade Games I have my Arcade - Sharp Preset saved as the Core Preset.

If you don’t like a setting or want to experiment with the settings you can use one of my presets or any other preset as a starting point then go into Shader Parameters and change the settings you like then save as a new preset or you can make this your new core preset, global preset or game preset. Make sure Use Simple Presets is turned on. Once you set it you should be able to forget it.

For the CRT Mask Type you can probably start from the bottom and go up until you find that setting and pick the mask type and size of your choosing. I hope this is answers your question.

[ledoeye]

Is there a way to load our own wallpaper instead of the black texture default one?

[Duimon]

Yep. Load one of HSM’s presets and save a core, game, or content directory preset. (Make sure to leave “Simple Presets” on.)

Browse to your Retroarch/config folder.

Browse into the folder for the core you saved. (i.e. Beetle PSX HW) and open the saved preset.

Add a line of text after the contents.

BackgroundImage = ":/shaders/Mega_Bezel_Community/Duimon-Mega-Bezel/Graphics/Amiga_A500_Plus/A500.png" replacing my path with the path to your image.

The path I posted uses absolute paths with :/ being the root Retroarch folder. If your graphic is somewhere in there you can leave it. Otherwise you can use a normal absolute path like…

BackgroundImage = "D:/My wallpaper/A500.png"

[ledoeye]

Thank you so much @Duimon!

[Duimon]

You are welcome. Eventually we will have a guide to all the features of the Mega Bezel. I believe we may use example presets to help explain these image layer features.

It will be a pretty big project because of all the features, so don’t expect anything very soon.

[Cyber]

1440p users can now enjoy presets that are optimized for that resolution providing almost the same look and feel of my existing presets which were all designed, tested and targeted towards 4K display users!

While the 1080p presets can actually work well and look sharp at 1440p, certain settings vary quite a bit according to the resolution so the solution that would best preserve my vision and also help 1440p users encroach even more on 4K image quality would be dedicated optimized presets for 1440p resolution. After doing the 1080p groundwork, this wasn’t difficult at all to implement.

CyberLab Mega Bezel Death To Pixels (Blending and Transparency 1440p Edition)

CyberLab Mega Bezel Death To Pixels (Composite - Sharp 1440p Edition)

CyberLab Mega Bezel Death To Pixels (Composite - Pure 1440p Edition)

CyberLab Mega Bezel Death To Pixels (Arcade - Sharp 1440p Edition)

Click the link below to download

CyberLab Mega Bezel Death To Pixels Shader Preset Pack 8-11-21.zip

[moontype]

I’m rather new to this and was hoping someone could save me from scrolling through 2 years of posts. I’ve got everything working following the installation instructions but the picture of the game being emulated doesn’t fill the area inside the bezel. Instead I there is a black bar at the top and bottom. I’m guessing I need to tweak a specific value under shader perimeters?

[HyperspaceMadness]

Yup, you can adjust the Crop Top and Crop Bottom to remove the black bars from the top and bottom.

The parameters are nearish the top of the parameter list.

[Tromzy]

Hi @Cyber, just tried your 1440 presets, I like them ! A question though : you make “Composite” preset, what setting should I change if I wanted to go with a Scart / RGB look ? In France we didn’t really use composite video signals, because our consoles used RGB cables and Scart (“Péritel”).

[Cyber]

I completely understand. In that case you can try the Arcade - Sharp preset as the inspiration for that preset was arcade games and monitors and those were more or less RGB. Should give you a nice sharp, clear “signal” (image) with a bit of smoothing on some of the edges. All composite signal effects are disabled in that one!

You can try it and let me know how it looks for you. If there’s a need, I can try to develop another specific preset for the RGB look but that’s kinda what I was going for with the Arcade - Sharp preset anyway just without the raw edges and aliasing/jaggies.

I’m really glad you like and find my presets useful! Thanks for the feedback!

If you want to tweak some settings for a more RGB look in the existing presets you might just have to disable GTU and also disable deconvergence then maybe you might still have some manual tweaking to do to rebalance everything. You might also want to disable Scale FX. Go and play around, it takes some time but it’s actually a lot of fun!

There are also some presets in the shader parameters to choose between RGB or Composite output. You can look for them and play with them and see but they may not even be necessary.

You might also need to turn down the halation as well.

[moontype]

That did the trick. I really appreciate you helping me instead of responding with “Did you read x guide?”