Mega Bezel Reflection Shader! - Feedback and Updates

[Duimon]

@Nightsax

is it possible to remove them while keeping the original look/aspect ratio?

I’m a bit confused. The only way to display 4x3 content, in it’s original aspect ratio, without black borders, is on a 4x3 monitor.

[Nightsax]

Sorry, I knew it should not be possible, but just wanted to be sure, thanks for answering

[eonder87]

MBZ__3__STD-GLASS__GDV

I use this file and it has a CRT effect. And I want to create or configure a preset file for slang shaders. My friend hates CRT looks and absolutely loves reflections. Basically, I want xbrz filter with basic standard reflections with a 4k overlay.

Please explain to me and I will try. Or if you wanted to help I will be happy.

[HyperspaceMadness]

So I would suggest using one of the SMOOTH-ADV presets which have ScaleFx integrated.

To remove the crt effect go to the shader parameters and reduce the Interlace Threshold to 100, this will trigger the interlace effect which is by default set to 4 which gives just a smoothed image.

In the future you would be able to turn on the No Scanlines parameter but that’s not there yet.

[HyperspaceMadness]

If you take your Max-Int-Scale preset and change the reference line to point to a glass preset that could fill the extra space with color which matches what is generally going on in the game

To do this you would change the reference line like this:

#reference “…/…/Base_CRT_Presets/MBZ__0__SMOOTH-ADV-GLASS__GDV.slangp”

[HyperspaceMadness]

@Zombeaver

I do hope that at some point there’s a way to incorporate some equivalent of Ambient Light as this is something I used to add in via Reshade but that doesn’t play quite as nicely with Vulkan as it does with GL.

I agree this is something that is currently missing in the toolkit to add this kind of overall screen bloom done with AmbientLight, or similarly with MagicBloom. I’ve been asked about this a number of times now.

I looked into it and both these take like 8 passes to produce the glow, and I think with AmbientLight it’s actually 8 full screen passes. So these slow down the performance quite a bit.

@Guest.r I’m not sure if it’s really possible, but is this something you have ever thought through of how to do a full screen bloom like this without the exorbitant cost? If you want to take a look at one of these already ported to slang, MagicBloom is in the reshade folder.

[guest.r]

@HyperspaceMadness

@Guest.r I’m not sure if it’s really possible, but is this something you have ever thought through of how to do a full screen bloom like this without the exorbitant cost? If you want to take a look at one of these already ported to slang, MagicBloom is in the reshade folder.

The implementation, at a quick glance, is also using double for loops for blur calculations, it could be optimized i guess. With default settings i’m getting like 160FPS, while guest-advanced standard pushes like 900.

Possible optimizations are definitelly in using separate horizontal and vertical blur passes, combined with mipmapping and outputting the result to a lower resolution this could get decent speeds.

[Zombeaver]

If Ambient Light was supported natively via Retroarch shaders that would be a dream come true for me. It is a performance-intensive pass in Reshade, but it’s still one that I basically always use.

Some screenshots from my old CGP shader pack:

Esper preset:

Esper preset + Reshade (not just Ambient Light, but that’s the main thing going on here):

Esper preset:

Esper preset + Reshade:

[p3st]

I think i had such weird problems with other before shaders aswell … Its not in all N64 games but in some in Super Mario 64 its just at the start but in Donkey Kong 64 its every scene transition. Is there some setting i screw up/missed that fixes that ?

oh yeah its the Mupen64Plus-Next core ^^

[HyperspaceMadness]

Are you using the crop black only feature?

If so, it is likely that the black becomes not quite black, then it doesn’t trigger the crop.

I also remember that this sometimes happened related to dithering modes, so you could try a different dithering pattern in the core options if that’s available.

You can also try to increase Black Threshold for 'CROP BLACK ONLY' and see if it still happens.

[p3st]

tired all of this now and it still happens , i will try around a bit more and will let you now what exactly causes it …if i find it ^^

[p3st]

Seems to be a strange bug with the ParaLLEI-RDP plugin tried every setting nothing helps but switching the RDP plugin to angrylion gets rid of it

[B-Nerd]

i just found another great project that uses mega bezel by zombeaver Zomb's Mega Bezel Pack

[WaffeSS]

Oh yeah, ReShade so good because Hook on 99% Softwares ^.^

ATM i playing old PC Games with HSM, and result is awesome

[HyperspaceMadness]

Mega Bezel is updated to V1.6.1_2022-11-21

Changes:

• Megatron
  • HDR versions Added
  • Megatron Updated to V4.3
  • Multiple Categories available
    • ADV
    • ADV-SCREEN-ONLY
    • STD
    • STD-SCREEN-ONLY
  • Note: The color of the reflection for the Megatron presets is a little off & oversaturated, I still need to go in and see how to fix the issue
• Fixed GLCore viewport size cache issue
• Guest Advanced (GDV)
  • Updated to crt-guest-advanced-2022-11-14-release1
  • Interlace mode -1 option added which turns on No Scanlines for both GDV and GDV-NTSC
  • Added Noise Multiplier at 4K (Will double at 8K if not 1)
• Image Fill Mode parameter changed to be simpler
  • It now has 3 options
    • 0 - KEEP TEXURE ASPECT
    • 1 - SPLIT
    • 2 - STRETCH
• Scanline Direction Fixed, was giving the wrong direction compared to the parameters
• Core Sampling Multipliers now go to 0 which is Auto
  • Auto means that the samling multiplier will match the upscale in the shader chain
  • The scanline direction multiplier is now set to 0 by default
• Improved Glass so it doesn’t get create banding as much
• SMOOTH-ADV & SUPER-XBR now have Mask size set to 0 so they will scale 2X at 4K
• SMOOTH-ADV has the Opposite Direction Multiplier set to 1, this avoids artifacts in a number of different places

Go to the first post here for links to the package and install instructions. Please make sure to read the install & setup instructions

Mega Bezel Reflection Shader! - Feedback and Updates

[Mega_Bezel_Logo] This thread is about the Mega Bezel Reflection Shader for Retroarch! Here you can tell me what’s working for you and what could be better. If you are wondering “What is this thing?” here’s a nice little overview up sharing our ideas around the project and some of the Mega Bezel features: RetroArch – Introducing the Mega Bezel Reflection Shader – Libretro This shader package is meant for you to experiment with and make your own creations if you like. Try adjusting the shader …

Parameter to show results of different passes

Regular Scanlines

No Scanlines

[p3st]

just updatet retroarch a hour ago , it seems to load/ save the shader/settings now much much faster now i have to update this

[Fifaozinho78]

Amazing ! could you share the shader / config used to have such result please ?

[hgoda90]

@HyperspaceMadness there is a bug with the DREZ presets.

[ERROR] [slang]: Duplicate parameters found for "HSM_DREZ_TITLE", but arguments do not match.
[ERROR] [slang]: Duplicate parameters found for "HSM_DREZ_TITLE", but arguments do not match.
[ERROR] [slang]: Duplicate parameters found for "HSM_DREZ_TITLE", but arguments do not match.
[ERROR] [slang]: Duplicate parameters found for "HSM_DREZ_TITLE", but arguments do not match.
[ERROR] [slang]: Duplicate parameters found for "HSM_DREZ_TITLE", but arguments do not match.
[ERROR] [slang]: Duplicate parameters found for "HSM_DREZ_TITLE", but arguments do not match.
[ERROR] [slang]: Duplicate parameters found for "HSM_DREZ_TITLE", but arguments do not match.
[ERROR] [slang]: Duplicate parameters found for "HSM_DREZ_TITLE", but arguments do not match.
[ERROR] [slang]: Duplicate parameters found for "HSM_DREZ_TITLE", but arguments do not match.
[ERROR] [slang]: Duplicate parameters found for "HSM_DREZ_TITLE", but arguments do not match.
[ERROR] [slang]: Duplicate parameters found for "HSM_DREZ_TITLE", but arguments do not match.
[ERROR] [slang]: Duplicate parameters found for "HSM_DREZ_TITLE", but arguments do not match.
[ERROR] [slang]: Duplicate parameters found for "HSM_DREZ_TITLE", but arguments do not match.
[ERROR] [slang]: Duplicate parameters found for "HSM_DREZ_TITLE", but arguments do not match.
[ERROR] [slang]: Duplicate parameters found for "HSM_DREZ_TITLE", but arguments do not match.
[ERROR] [slang]: Duplicate parameters found for "HSM_DREZ_TITLE", but arguments do not match.
[DEBUG] [Shaders]: Load parameter value: "SHARPEN" = 0.000000.
[INFO] [slang]: Compiling shader: "A:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\shaders\shaders_slang\bezel\Mega_Bezel\shaders\base\add-params-all.slang".
[INFO] [slang]: Using render target format R8G8B8A8_UNORM for pass output #0.
[INFO] [slang]: Compiling shader: "A:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\shaders\shaders_slang\bezel\Mega_Bezel\shaders\hyllian\cubic\hsm-drez-b-spline-x.slang".
[ERROR] [GLCore]: Duplicate parameters found for "HSM_DREZ_TITLE", but arguments do not match.
[ERROR] [GLCore]: Failed to create preset: "A:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\shaders\shaders_slang\bezel\Mega_Bezel\Presets\Base_CRT_Presets_DREZ\MBZ__3__STD__GDV__DREZ-240p.slangp".
[ERROR] [GLCore]: Failed to create filter chain: "A:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\shaders\shaders_slang\bezel\Mega_Bezel\Presets\Base_CRT_Presets_DREZ\MBZ__3__STD__GDV__DREZ-240p.slangp". Falling back to stock.
[INFO] [slang]: Building pass #0 (N/A)
[INFO] [GLCore]: Not using frame history.
[INFO] [GLCore]: Not using framebuffer feedback.

Found that the problem is that params-0-screen-scale.inc file has parameter argument set as 0 0 0.001 0.001 and hsm-drez-b-spline-x.slang has the parameter argument set as 0 0 0.01 0.01. I changed one set to make them match and it worked again.

[HyperspaceMadness]

Mega Bezel is updated to V1.6.2_2022-11-22

Changes:

• Fixed DREZ Presets – Thanks for the catch @hgoda90!
• Fixed DeviceVertImage
• 480p POTATO presets included

Go to the first post here for links to the package and install instructions. Please make sure to read the install & setup instructions

Mega Bezel Reflection Shader! - Feedback and Updates

[Mega_Bezel_Logo] This thread is about the Mega Bezel Reflection Shader for Retroarch! Here you can tell me what’s working for you and what could be better. If you are wondering “What is this thing?” here’s a nice little overview up sharing our ideas around the project and some of the Mega Bezel features: RetroArch – Introducing the Mega Bezel Reflection Shader – Libretro This shader package is meant for you to experiment with and make your own creations if you like. Try adjusting the shader …

Also this makes 5000! posts on this thread! A huge thank you to the community for your engagement in this project!!!

[WaffeSS]

I’m using default Settings from “Thenamec-Commodore-Pack-RC3_4K Pack” this Pack include various Presets from old Amiga PC… Another Pack i use is Duimon a good preset for Dosbox