Shader inside the GUI?

RetroArch General
#1

I would like to use a specific shader inside the GUI, but I don’t know how to activate it. I only see either no shader or linear filter.

I only know how to activate shaders in loaded core/content, but not in the GUI.

#2

The only shader that works in the GUI is the built-in ribbon shader that’s in the background. You can’t add background shaders at runtime.

#3

I thought to use a shader like sabr to smoothen the font edges. If its not possoble, I’ll have to stick to the blocky font.

Thanks.

#4

Which menu driver are you using? if GLUI or XMB, your fonts should be crisp and antialiased.

#5

I’m using rgui, since glui, xmb and zarch just crash Retroarch with the error “Segmentation fault”.

I installed extra packets for glui and xmb, don’t know why it still doesn’t work. I also updated assets, no change.

I installed the following packstes on Arch Linux with pacman: retroarch and retroarch-assets-xmb. I installed glui from AUR with yaourt.

#6

Hmm, you shouldn’t need extra packets for GLUI or XMB. They’re built into the main program. Can you run ‘retroarch --features’ from a command line?

#7

retroarch --features

Features: LibretroDB: LibretroDB support: yes Command: Command interface support: yes Network Command: Network Command interface support: yes SDL: SDL input/audio/video drivers: no SDL2: SDL2 input/audio/video drivers: yes X11: X11 input/video drivers: yes wayland: Wayland input/video drivers: yes Threads: Threading support: yes Vulkan: Vulkan video driver: yes OpenGL: OpenGL video driver support: yes OpenGL ES: OpenGLES video driver support: no XVideo: Video driver: yes UDEV: UDEV/EVDEV input driver support: yes EGL: Video context driver: yes KMS: Video context driver: yes OpenVG: Video context driver: no CoreAudio: Audio driver: no ALSA: Audio driver: yes OSS: Audio driver: no
Jack:
Audio driver: no
RSound: Audio driver: no RoarAudio: Audio driver: no PulseAudio: Audio driver: yes DirectSound: Audio driver: no XAudio2: Audio driver: no OpenAL: Audio driver: yes OpenSL: Audio driver: no 7zip: 7zip extraction support: yes zlib: .zip extraction support: yes External: External filter and plugin support: yes Cg: Fragment/vertex shader driver: no GLSL: Fragment/vertex shader driver: yes HLSL: Fragment/vertex shader driver: yes libxml2: libxml2 XML parsing: yes SDL_image: SDL_image image loading: no rpng: PNG image loading/encoding: yes rjpeg: JPEG image loading: yes FBO: OpenGL render-to-texture (multi-pass shaders): yes Dynamic: Dynamic run-time loading of libretro library: yes FFmpeg: On-the-fly recording of gameplay with libavcodec: yes FreeType: TTF font rendering driver: yes CoreText: TTF font rendering driver (for OSX and/or iOS): no Netplay: Peer-to-peer netplay: yes Python: Script support in shaders: no Libusb: Libusb support: yes Cocoa: Cocoa UI companion support (for OSX and/or iOS): no QT: QT UI companion support: no AVFoundation: Camera driver: no Video4Linux2: Camera driver: yes

#8

Hmm, dunno what to tell you. That all looks okay.

I guess you could get a backtrace out of gdb to see what’s actually causing the segfault.

#9

I removed retroarch-1.3.6-1 and installed retroarch-git-1.3.6.r1888.9561b55-1 through yaourt/AUR.

Now rgui, glui and xmb work.

Thank you for your help.