Uborder shaders

[Hyllian]

Inner Bezel you meant? It’s always there since the beginning.

The new params are these:

These new params can be seen being used in this particular screenshot. See how the bezel outline curvature is slighty less curve than the content. I used the modifier param to decrease curvature in the bezel.

The second param can be seen too. As you didn’t notice, the bezel isn’t transparent, but the outer bezel is and it was slightly increased to smooth the bezel outlines so that it blends better with the overlay.

[Boz1978]

The slight white edge on the very inside of the bezel on the arcade overlay pictures you’ve posted.

[Hyllian]

Oh, these white lines are from the overlay itself, I’m using transparent bezels there. That overlay isn’t from your pack. It’s from here: https://github.com/cosmo0/retropie-overlays-arcade-realistic/blob/master/overlays/configs/aliens.png

[Boz1978]

Ahh right no problem m8… you’ve done a great job … but you’re giving me work to do lol!

[Hyllian]

I don’t think you need to change anything. Your presets will work with this versions. It doesn’t affect existent presets.

[Boz1978]

I know but I’m gonna be looking at actual cabs now as reference… and I’m pretty sure they all have rounded edges lol.

[Starman99x]

@Hyllian

To use classic-crt-collection, get the overlays in this link: https://github.com/TreyM/classic-crt-collection

Awesome update!

Small nitpick: I think the presets should lead to “overlays/classic-crt-collection/CRT” instead of “overlays/CRT”.

[Cyber]

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This was my gig growing up!

[Hyllian]

@Starman99x

Small nitpick: I think the presets should lead to “overlays/classic-crt-collection/CRT” instead of “overlays/CRT”.

Not by the instructions in his github:

I just follow instructions from the source.

[Hari-82]

Doing some testing and I’m going back and forth between Lights ON/OFF

I like very much how the lighting behave using Lights Out regarding the border, that can also be adjusted with the Border Dimming parameter, but I think that the effect on the bezel is too strong and not adjustable -> it goes to black or very close to it; on the other hand using lights ON the ambilight on the border is more difficult to handle even lowering Border to ambient light weight, the bezel (middle and outer) retain the color but feels a little detached from the whole “scene”…

am I overlooking something? is there a way to give a little light to middle and outer bezel with light out?

Lights out

Lights “on” - Border to ambient light weight : 0.10

[Hyllian]

So, basically, you’d like to unify controls between lights out and on?

[Hari-82]

what do you mean by unifying? I was thinking to have some control over the bezel lighting; in both, light on/off, the bezel stays the same (dark with lights off and “normally” bright but no changes from ambi in light on).

[Hyllian]

Ok, now I understand. In fact, the koko-ambi is only applied over the border. I’ll need to test if applying over bezels may work as we expect.

[Hyllian]

Ok, after trying many approaches with the help of @Hari-82 to test, I’ve come with an update that improves the reflection bezels when lights are out. Koko-ambi now affects the bezels too in any case.

As it’s a minor update (only one file is changed, and a pack), I won’t create a full github release for 3.4.

To update it, considering you already have the 3.3 installed, you just need to download this and unzip over it: Update to Uborder-v0.3.4

I’m happy with the results for lights out now, the reflections are toned down, creating some realism. One example below:

Lights ON:

Lights OUT (using border_dimming = “0.25”):

[Starman99x]

so I was playing with the new update, and I think the Soqueroeu-TV-Backgrounds pack, particularly the Night presets, could use a darker inner bezel:

Maybe the other packs need this adjustement too but I didn’t test yet, anyways thank you for this fantastic shader!

[Hyllian]

Thanks for the feedback. There are many ways to adjust it, one is just changing the color values towards lower values. Another way is lowering Ambient Intensity or Ambient Size (or both), even if they’re disabled, they can be used to modulate the bezel lighting.

I confess I didn’t fine tune too much these night presets. I just turned the Lights Out.

[bitman]

What I did for my modified version, was to reduce those color values for the bezel to nearly 0, and also lower the ambient weight a lot so it’s not noticeable

[Starman99x]

I understand how time consuming that would be, in that case I think simply batch lowering the ambient params would be a decent quick fix for night presets.

[Hyllian]

Ok, but this thing is highly subjective. If I set some value, someone will say it’s not dark enough or not light enough. It’s a rabbit hole. Not only that, if I calibrate it with my room lit, I get values different from when I calibrate in dark room. So, even our environment lighting can deceive us to think something is off.

I’ll change the Ambient Size from 0.85 to 0.5, it’ll reduce the clarity of the bezels in that pack. Next version will have it.

[Hari-82]

you can try to to set

Border to ambient light weight = 30
Border dimming (lights out) = 75

Before

After