Please show off what crt shaders can do!

[Hyahieja]

I like applying substantially different settings depending on target resolution and optional auxiliary enhancements. Lower native output resolution needs thicker lines and more distinct mask, and vice versa. Don’t care so much for scanlines but rather for slot mask to provide that satisfying grainy look and polish any imperfections due to original art limitations.

To think I’ve made a total 180 in my relationship between CRT look vs. Pixel shader. The latter tends to make text and transparency effects uglier and tarnish the looks intended by the artist. I’ve only recently found about Retroarch and Reshade and they’ve been a real game changer. But you know what they say, only the wisest and dumbest men never change their mind.

The subtle glow or halation really makes a striking picture but people should learn to use it a bit more sparingly (myself included). Here’s some screenshots from Super Robot Wars from ps2/gba era I’ve went through in my recent extra spare time thanks to covid.

bonus: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13TSHnFKUzCg6ugREirw1S2pBi0VFPcgD/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Racmp3kjAkm2-NfdbvBL7xxZkATLXKrG/view?usp=sharing

[DariusG]

The second one reminds me my old Commodore 1084-SP, with small shield-like shape pixels. Absolutely loved that monitor.

[crtJoe]

Thanks for the tip. I’ll try preformatted text next time

[crtJoe]

The effect comes from the aperture grille mask with moderate color deconvergence and a large triad size.

[monoculero]

@crtJoe Wow its cool!!! Can you share the preset? Thanks!

[crtJoe]

Just scroll up a few posts and find my reply to crtseeker and you’ll find the preset.

For comparison, here’s a pic of a real Trinitron set. https://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=63197&start=30

[Syh]

Prepare for arcade stick spam! XD jkjk

For real though, I’ll be posting a couple pics of all the parts I’ve collected now, sometime next week.

I still need to get a few more japanese levers (sticks), though I do have a few now, still team korean lever all the way tbh.

[DevilSingh]

Working on something!

Soon™

[CybeREX]

Not advertising. Just found man who record gameplay on PVM. Now I use it for color / effect matching in games that use shaders. Example of Super Donkey Kong 3 - Super Famicom

Scanline Pawaa

[CybeREX]

any settings? and version of Guest.r?

[DariusG]

I don’t have the PC now, it’s mask 7, with mask intensity raised a bit and scanlines beam 6 and 12, scanlines dark 1,6 or so and bright 0,95 iirc

[DevilSingh]

CRT-Guest-Advanced for ReShade :

I've ported Guest-Dr-Venom to ReShade!

CRT-Guest-Advanced for ReShade (Let me know if you found any issues!) : /* CRT - Guest - Advanced (Copyright (C) 2018-2021 guest(r) - [email protected]) Incorporates many good ideas and suggestions from Dr. Venom. I would also like give thanks to many Libretro forums members for continuous feedbacks, suggestions and caring about the shader. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free …

[frenki]

[BendBombBoom]

Took me a bit but I got RetroArch running on my iPad Pro. It looks great even with no gpu. Here is venom_sm on some DoomII in dosbox.

[HyperspaceMadness]

@BendBombBoom

Took me a bit but I got RetroArch running on my iPad Pro. It looks great even with no gpu. Here is venom_sm on some DoomII in dosbox.

It’s amazing how much better Doom looks with a CRT shader

[BendBombBoom]

I’m assuming things are running at 60hz but that 120hz Oled screen of the iPad is nice looking. If only you don’t have to dance around to get emulators up and running on iOS.

[SkyHighGam3r]

@Hyllian

New release of crt-super-xbr :

• Added crt-super-xbr-curvature-ntsc-adaptive ;

crt-super-xbr and variants (slang) - 21-01-24

It looks like this link is dead. Is there any other way to get this shader? I’m drooling over it a little bit. Maybe a lot a bit. lol I didn’t see it in the folders at all.

[sonkun]

Been messing around with mask 3 in the guest shader lately.

shaders = "12"
shader0 = "shaders_slang/stock.slang"
filter_linear0 = "false"
wrap_mode0 = "clamp_to_border"
mipmap_input0 = "false"
alias0 = "StockPass"
float_framebuffer0 = "false"
srgb_framebuffer0 = "false"
scale_type_x0 = "source"
scale_x0 = "1.000000"
scale_type_y0 = "source"
scale_y0 = "1.000000"
shader1 = "shaders_slang/crt/shaders/crtsim/composite.slang"
filter_linear1 = "true"
wrap_mode1 = "clamp_to_border"
mipmap_input1 = "false"
alias1 = ""
float_framebuffer1 = "false"
srgb_framebuffer1 = "false"
scale_type_x1 = "source"
scale_x1 = "1.000000"
scale_type_y1 = "source"
scale_y1 = "1.000000"
shader2 = "shaders_slang/misc/grade.slang"
filter_linear2 = "true"
wrap_mode2 = "clamp_to_border"
mipmap_input2 = "false"
alias2 = "PrePass"
float_framebuffer2 = "false"
srgb_framebuffer2 = "false"
scale_type_x2 = "source"
scale_x2 = "1.000000"
scale_type_y2 = "source"
scale_y2 = "1.000000"
shader3 = "shaders_slang/crt/shaders/guest/crt-gdv-new/avg-lum.slang"
filter_linear3 = "true"
wrap_mode3 = "clamp_to_border"
mipmap_input3 = "true"
alias3 = "AvgLumPass"
float_framebuffer3 = "false"
srgb_framebuffer3 = "false"
scale_type_x3 = "source"
scale_x3 = "1.000000"
scale_type_y3 = "source"
scale_y3 = "1.000000"
shader4 = "shaders_slang/crt/shaders/guest/crt-gdv-new/linearize.slang"
filter_linear4 = "true"
wrap_mode4 = "clamp_to_border"
mipmap_input4 = "false"
alias4 = "LinearizePass"
float_framebuffer4 = "true"
srgb_framebuffer4 = "false"
scale_type_x4 = "source"
scale_x4 = "1.000000"
scale_type_y4 = "source"
scale_y4 = "1.000000"
shader5 = "shaders_slang/crt/shaders/guest/crt-gdv-new/gaussian_horizontal.slang"
filter_linear5 = "true"
wrap_mode5 = "clamp_to_border"
mipmap_input5 = "false"
alias5 = ""
float_framebuffer5 = "false"
srgb_framebuffer5 = "false"
scale_type_x5 = "viewport"
scale_x5 = "0.500000"
scale_type_y5 = "source"
scale_y5 = "1.000000"
shader6 = "shaders_slang/crt/shaders/guest/crt-gdv-new/gaussian_vertical.slang"
filter_linear6 = "true"
wrap_mode6 = "clamp_to_border"
mipmap_input6 = "false"
alias6 = "GlowPass"
float_framebuffer6 = "false"
srgb_framebuffer6 = "false"
scale_type_x6 = "viewport"
scale_x6 = "0.500000"
scale_type_y6 = "viewport"
scale_y6 = "0.500000"
shader7 = "shaders_slang/crt/shaders/guest/crt-gdv-new/bloom_horizontal.slang"
filter_linear7 = "true"
wrap_mode7 = "clamp_to_border"
mipmap_input7 = "false"
alias7 = ""
float_framebuffer7 = "false"
srgb_framebuffer7 = "false"
scale_type_x7 = "source"
scale_x7 = "1.000000"
scale_type_y7 = "source"
scale_y7 = "1.000000"
shader8 = "shaders_slang/crt/shaders/guest/crt-gdv-new/bloom_vertical.slang"
filter_linear8 = "true"
wrap_mode8 = "clamp_to_border"
mipmap_input8 = "false"
alias8 = "BloomPass"
float_framebuffer8 = "false"
srgb_framebuffer8 = "false"
scale_type_x8 = "source"
scale_x8 = "1.000000"
scale_type_y8 = "source"
scale_y8 = "1.000000"
shader9 = "shaders_slang/crt/shaders/guest/crt-gdv-new/crt-guest-dr-venom2.slang"
filter_linear9 = "true"
wrap_mode9 = "clamp_to_border"
mipmap_input9 = "false"
alias9 = ""
float_framebuffer9 = "false"
srgb_framebuffer9 = "false"
scale_type_x9 = "viewport"
scale_x9 = "1.000000"
scale_type_y9 = "viewport"
scale_y9 = "1.000000"
shader10 = "shaders_slang/crt/shaders/guest/crt-gdv-new/deconvergence.slang"
filter_linear10 = "true"
wrap_mode10 = "clamp_to_border"
mipmap_input10 = "false"
alias10 = ""
float_framebuffer10 = "false"
srgb_framebuffer10 = "false"
scale_type_x10 = "viewport"
scale_x10 = "1.000000"
scale_type_y10 = "viewport"
scale_y10 = "1.000000"
shader11 = "shaders_slang/misc/glass.slang"
filter_linear11 = "true"
wrap_mode11 = "clamp_to_border"
mipmap_input11 = "false"
alias11 = ""
float_framebuffer11 = "false"
srgb_framebuffer11 = "false"
scale_type_x11 = "source"
scale_x11 = "1.000000"
scale_type_y11 = "source"
scale_y11 = "1.000000"
Tuning_Persistence_R = "0.000000"
Tuning_Persistence_G = "0.000000"
Tuning_Persistence_B = "0.000000"
Tuning_Bleed = "0.000000"
Tuning_Artifacts = "0.000000"
NTSCLerp = "0.000000"
NTSCArtifactScale = "0.000000"
g_space_out = "3.000000"
g_mid = "1.000000"
wp_temperature = "8004.000000"
g_sat = "0.600000"
g_lift = "-0.150000"
LUT_Size1 = "32.000000"
LUT_Size2 = "32.000000"
lsmooth = "0.900000"
GAMMA_INPUT = "3.499999"
interm = "5.000000"
bloom = "0.900000"
halation = "0.200000"
gamma_c = "1.500000"
brightboost = "2.000000"
brightboost1 = "3.000000"
scanline1 = "15.000000"
scanline2 = "5.000000"
beam_min = "2.499999"
beam_size = "0.700000"
h_sharp = "3.000001"
s_sharp = "0.000000"
smart_ei = "20.000000"
ei_limit = "12.000000"
sth = "1.000000"
BLOOM = "1.000000"
csize = "0.010000"
warpX = "0.030000"
warpY = "0.040000"
shadowMask = "3.000000"
maskstr = "1.000000"
maskDark = "0.000000"
maskLight = "1.000000"
mcut = "0.250000"
mask_gamma = "3.499999"
gamma_out = "3.499999"
deconr = "-2.000000"
decons = "1.000000"
g_reflgrain = "0.700000"
g_reflstr = "0.100000"
g_fresnel = "0.500000"
gz = "1.100000"
gzr = "1.000000"
gzg = "1.000000"
goyr = "0.000000"
goyg = "0.000000"
TO = "0.000000"
ASAT = "1.000000"
PER = "2.000000"
temperature = "8004.000000"
textures = "MaskTexture;NTSCArtifactSampler;shadowMaskSampler;SamplerLUT1;SamplerLUT2;SamplerLUT3;SamplerLUT4"
MaskTexture = "shaders_slang/crt/shaders/mame_hlsl/resources/aperture-grille.png"
MaskTexture_wrap_mode = "clamp_to_border"
MaskTexture_mipmap = "false"
NTSCArtifactSampler = "shaders_slang/crt/shaders/crtsim/artifacts.png"
NTSCArtifactSampler_linear = "true"
NTSCArtifactSampler_wrap_mode = "clamp_to_border"
NTSCArtifactSampler_mipmap = "false"
shadowMaskSampler = "shaders_slang/crt/shaders/crtsim/mask.png"
shadowMaskSampler_linear = "true"
shadowMaskSampler_wrap_mode = "clamp_to_border"
shadowMaskSampler_mipmap = "false"
SamplerLUT1 = "shaders_slang/crt/shaders/guest/lut/sony_trinitron1.png"
SamplerLUT1_linear = "true"
SamplerLUT1_wrap_mode = "clamp_to_border"
SamplerLUT1_mipmap = "false"
SamplerLUT2 = "shaders_slang/crt/shaders/guest/lut/sony_trinitron2.png"
SamplerLUT2_linear = "true"
SamplerLUT2_wrap_mode = "clamp_to_border"
SamplerLUT2_mipmap = "false"
SamplerLUT3 = "shaders_slang/crt/shaders/guest/lut/other1.png"
SamplerLUT3_linear = "true"
SamplerLUT3_wrap_mode = "clamp_to_border"
SamplerLUT3_mipmap = "false"
SamplerLUT4 = "shaders_slang/crt/shaders/guest/lut/custom_lut.png"
SamplerLUT4_linear = "true"
SamplerLUT4_wrap_mode = "clamp_to_border"
SamplerLUT4_mipmap = "false"

[datjocko]

Does anyone have a clean way of combining the gtu-v50 slang shader with crt-royale? I tried adding it as the first few passes on top of royale and that didn’t work at all

GTU is probably the best crt blurring shader I’ve personally seen and I feel like it would do wonders on top of royale but I can’t quite get the two to place nice

[Arviel]

Showing off @HyperspaceMadness presets.