Thread 11925896

Can we get a good ol' shader thread? just post the fucking screenshots and argue less. Show off your stuff

I have posted about this before. In Stage 1 of Alisia Dragoon, with crt royale 320px composite enabled, (or anything that uses ntsc composite 2 phase) there is a rift in the sky which contains etheral white bars that make it look like there is another layer of parallax scrolling. There is no way you can convince me this wasn't an intentionally designed effect by the graphic artists. It looks stunning in motion.

>>11925954
DELET THIS

Any good composite/color bleed shaders out there?
VHS Pro works but doesn't have much customization for that.

>>11925941
>>11925954
Yeah it's cool

>>11925954
Now do Shinobi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=creDKP43oCI
You can do it. I believe in you.

It's also cool how the shader gives this a 3D effect, makes it look kinda like pre-rendered graphics.

>>11925975
>The warehouse walls seem to shift from light to dark purple every eight pixels. This effect is not seen in the same way when viewing the game through an S-Video or RGB connection. I am aware of no emulator that can replicate this effect.
That's literally just the sprite pattern for the walls though...?

>>11925992
Isn't that just the effect that happens when you put certain colors next to each other and they appear to be moving?

>>11925991
doesn't do that on real hardware, you're clearly getting some kind of artifacting from the checkerboard pattern interacting with the shader

pretty sure that's just supposed to be smoke and not a "rift" too

>>11926006
Over RF or composite you're either going to get the stripes as they are or blended into a dark purple depending on the quality of the signal. If he's getting some weird effect from them in motion that probably has more to do with his capture card than anything.

>>11925918
Arrgghhh!!! My eyes!!!!
Got a webm of that bad boy in motion?

>>11925991

oh interesting. I'm going to try this on my CRT but im currently using RGB so it probably wont do it. Im going to hazard a guess that composite or RF might though - several things that have rainbow effects (sonic waterfall etc) in composite dont really work in RGB on my tv.

>>11925954
Shadow mask?

>>11926409
>let's darken the image by 66% for an effect that you can't even see on a typical crt unless you shove your face into the screen

>>11925941
>>11925954
>>11925969
>>11925985
>>11925991

>literally an optical illusion of the static background and the shader layer on top of that static background

I don't see it mang.

>>11926014
>>11926017
>This depiction of an aurora is actually just smoke
>This attempt to approximate a parallax layer from the arcade game is actually just a capture card quirk
Do you have a mental roadblock to graphical effects existing or something?

>>11926550
>aurora
>brown

>>11926550
Are you trolling or just retarded? There literally is no Alisia Dragoon arcade game.

A comparison between 256px composite and s-video on snes. S-video looks better because the rocks aren't covered with lines.
>>11926579
You're illiterate. Go back and read the posts I was replying to.

>>11926550
lmao what are you even talking about? the point of alternating black and purple is to get dark purple when your tv smears the colors together, not to "approximate parallax", that doesn't even fucking make sense

sega master system only had 16 colors so devs constantly used shit like that to fake additional colors, oldest fucking trick in the book

>>11925991
>>11925991
>>11925991

Even in motion on a real capture device it doesn't look like there is any more movement in the backgrounds. I think this is just a quirk of the shader itself.

>>11925896 (OP)
ewe

>>11926635
You missed the whole point that it only looks like that through composite video, just like the sonic waterfalls, the earthworm jim tubes, and everything else on the genesis.

>>11926661
except it doesn't look like that through composite video

it looks like that with your shader and only with your shader

>>11926679
proof?

>>11926635
most effects like this break with higher quality signals than composite, things like dither-based transparency and blending quirks like the shimmering cliffs in final fantasy
of course it's not going to work with an rgb signal upscaled to 720p on a modern lcd

>>11926625
Okay retard.

>>11926604
game will look 10x better if you stop using the incorrect aspect ratio btw.

>>11926679
idk this looks really specific to be a shader effect

>>11926424
I find that earthbound insists upon itself

zfast crt finemask

>>11927125
same shader, for kicks

Comparison of different styles. PVM+RGB vs Consumer+RF

>>11927391
>>11927403
got a preset for the consumer rf?

>>11927449
It's just stock ntsc-adaptive on top of guest-advanced with custom settings

https://files.catbox.moe/d698fg.slangp this is optimized for 1080p screens, if you have another resolution, adjust the CRT mask zoom setting (or pick a different CRT mask)

>>11927464
dope thanks

An approximation of pc crt monitor with guest advanced (reshade). It's really hard to get it right but I'm okay with this, especially at 1080p. Very slight scanlines which are barely visible plus other stuff like slight blurriness and glow. It needs to be very subtle.

>>11928656
congrats all you accomplished was darkening the image

>>11925918
is it possible to learn this power?

Depth illusion only in composite.

>>11928818
>Depth illusion
>of which there is none

>>11928830
It's the same guy who's been trolling the entire thread.

Shaders hurt my eyes after a while.

this

>>11928805
Output is actually somewhat brighter because Guest Advanced changes the gamut and exposure.

>>11928874
矯めつ眇めつ

>>11928830
>>11928851
>t. can't imagine an apple

>>11928839
With that shader is makes it look like the yellow dragon is nibbling on Alyssia's bum.

>>11928874
No one even posted a shitty scanline overlay, get new material retard. It would be so easy to come in here, drop bait about royale-ntsc being > guest-advanced-ntsc, and actually derail the thread, but you people cant even shit-stir correctly

>>11929054
>dark AND washed out
nice!

I'm partial to Koko's AIO TV aperture grille as it looks very close to my actual crt I still own so for the times when i'm not going OG hardware it is my shader of choice. It does help i'm using an oled screen as well.

>>11928818
It's "depth of field".

Most people are unable to understand the nuances of crt displays. Creating a functional shader look is an art form.

>>11929238
Koko's shaders made me a believer, using them at 4k oled hdr look insanely good. I did tweak several things though, like remove curvature, remove the "light spot" and made custom bezels that interact with the ambient light. Usually don't like bezels but they are needed if you want your oled to wear out evenly.

>>11925985
Oh yeah!

>>11929238
Problem here are the vertical gaps between grill patterns.

>>11929276
Yeah when I first discovered guest-advanced-ntsc I spent like a week reading about what the fuck any of the parameters even did (inb4 someone implies thats a bad thing, I had a great time and learned a lot about CRTs)

>>11929238
is having the fake TV sitting on your OLED long term not a burn in concern?

>>11929515
I'm not playing it for hours upon hours at a time nor do I have the screen at full brightness so no.

>>11929515
The inner frame has reflexions that comes from the game and the outer frame is affected by the ambient light making the whole 16:9 screen not static. It's a better solution than having a 4:3 game with no overlay at all since pixel wear is a thing and you'd end up with lighter big square image on the center of your tv in the long run. But, if you don't like it, you can turn it off of course.

>>11929594
>>11929597
There are shaders that add blur to the sides if you want.

>>11929515
>>11929719
Surely the game's HUD would cause more problems than a smooth, low-contrast bezel.

>>11929719
I like the bezel and screen reflection.

>>11930475
That's cool. What about the other CGA palettes?

>>11925896 (OP)
I'm still on crtglow_gauss.slangp and it rocks, just a shame how my tablet's not too powerful, so sometimes it doesn't work well, mainly on PS1 and consoles more demanding than it, up to Genesis, SNES and GBA it's fine. I'm trying to find any similar light alternatives I like, but not much luck so far. Anyways, I'll keep experimenting, maybe I'll need to upgrade my tablet soon really.

>want to use cool shaders
>don't want to use retroarch
suffering

>>11930769
Ares is compatible with RA shaders IIRC. Even then, you have also ReShade and ShaderGlass