- vector_length_ratio is now independent from screen size
- changed vector_length_ratio range from [0.0, 1000.0] to [0.0, 1.0]
- updated display name and description of vector_length_scale vector_length_ratio
- if specified all textures (.png) within the same directoy of the given texture will be selectable via slider in the UI
- also added slider for "shadow mask tile mode" to HLSL chain
- separated curvature parameter into distortion, cubic_distortion and distort_corner
- distortion and cubic_distortion can be negative, to compensate each other
- distort_corner is intependent from the image distortion
- reduced raster bloom level to 8
- extended vector bloom level to 15
- changed vector bloom to be less blocky
- removed bloom_lvl9_weight and bloom_lvl10_weight options
- options are reset to loaded preset when game is closed
- changed default values of options to result in no effects activated
- init_slider_list() does not returns but sets g_slider_list directly
- removed unnecessary oriented_vector_texcoords
- implemented proper texture coordinates for vector quad primitive
- vector screen is now processed in texture coordinates
- revered workaround for raster screen, which is again processed in
texture coordinates
- known issue: cocktail mode for vector screen looks wrong
- split into primary.fx into 3 techniques for vector buffer, screen and
UI pass
- moved register_texture() for shaders outside of texture_info creation
- added render_primitive parameter to register_texture(); currently
unused
- removed other unused register_texture() definition
- calculation of bloom dimensions is now done only once, when render
target is created
- reduced blur width for non-vector screens
- implemented shadow u/v option for source tile mode
- HLSL now uses NPOT sized target surfaces (breaks compatibility with
graphics cards based on R300/R400/NV30 and older)
- HLSL target surfaces now have the size of the screen canvas
- removed HLSL pre-scale factor
- HLSL now uses a sharp bilinear interpolation to pre-scale textures to
screen canvas size, based on [Themaister's] implementation
- improved overall performance (based on the previously required
pre-scale factor, you might notice a 5-50% speed-up depending on your
graphics card, more if you used a higher pre-scale factor)
- improved shadow mask quality (pixel-perfect) in screen-mode
- fixed half source texel offset of bloom level alignment
- removed ./hlsl/artwork_support folder
- all shaders after pre-scale are now based on screen coordinate
(workaground, till both raster and vector pass can work on texture
coordinates)
- disabled distortion shader for more than one screen and for artworks
in full mode, does not affect artworks in copped mode (workaground, till
both raster and vector pass can work on texture coordinates)
- moved compute_texture_size() from texture_info to texture_manager (nw)
- fixed target dimensions of bloom levels, which results in a much
better alignment especially for game with very low resolution (therefore
current bloom settings might look a little less intense than before)
- small cleanups (nw)
- changed the amount of scanline darkness, a setting of 1.0 now becomes
fully black (to get the same result as before half your current setting)
- scanline height now depends on the brightness of the underlying color
- the amount of the scanline brightness and overdrive now depends on the
scanline darkness
- renamed 'Scanline Screen Height' to 'Scanline Screen Scale' and
'Scanline Indiv. Height' to 'Scanline Height'
- merged YIQ encode and decode pass into one NTSC pass
- added options for most NTSC settings
- reduced sample count to 64
- changed default O value to 0
- fit NTSC signal jitter between a reasonable limit of 0 and 1
- fit A and B value between a reasonable limit of -1 and 1
- fit scanline jitter between a reasonable limit of 0 and 1
- added hum bar simulation based on [MooglyGuy's] GLSL port of the mame
shader pipeline
- added monochrome-chessboard.png
- added slot-mask-aligned.png (to simulate a TFT LCD)
- fixed half texel offset
- readded usage of A value in encode/decode pass
- readded jitter of B value in encode/decode pass
- readded usage of P value in encode pass
- fixed not set O value uniform for decode pass
- removed duplicate YIQ option definition
- changed default of O value back to 1.0
- color converge is now independent from ratio
- the radial converge now "translates" the most outer pixel as thay
would be translated by the linar converge with the same amount
- color converge is now limited to a maximum of 10
- added color converge pass to vector rendering
- replaced shader parameters OrientationSwapXY xor RotationSwapXY by
SwapXY
- made shader parameters SourceDims, SourceRect, TargetDims, ScreenDims,
QuadDims and SwapXY available for all shaders
- color convolution, defocus and phosphor pass will now be skipped if
all influencing parameters are 0
- removed unused bloom_texture and bloom_target arrays from cache_target
class
- fixed half texel offset in prescale.fx
- added shadow mask type option to choose between "Screen" and "Source"
tile mode ("Screen" is the default as before)
- added bloom type option to choose between "Addition" and "Darken"
blend mode ("Addition" is the default as before)
- the alpha channel of a shadow mask is now filled with the background
color of the screen by the amount of the inverted alpha value
- added monochrome-matrix.png which can be used in combination with
"Source" tile mode and "Darken" blend mode to simulate a STN LCD, for
example
- fixed wrong detection of vector screen, which meant that a LCD screen
was also detected as vector screen
- re-enabled scan-line and other CRT related sliders for LCD screens
- defocus is now independent from screen size and ratio
- horizontal and vertical defocus now have the same strength
- replaced asymmetric defocus kernel by a symmetric kernel
- defocus is now limited to a maximum of 10
- added shader uniforms for orientation and rotation settings
- fixed not used HLSL settings from <custom>.ini if MAME was started
without driver parameter
- removed default values from HLSL sliders, the defaults here are more
like null values to hint when an effect would be disable
- slightly changed default HLSL settings
- screen adjustment (scale, offset) can now be handled by the respective
render API itself (default behavior is as before)
- D3D (if HLSL) is activated handles screen adjustment by itself within
the shader, which fixes the odd behavior of some effects (e.g. round
corners) when screen scale and offset is used
- added special post.fx and distortion.fx shader, which support enabled
artworks, but they cannot apply some of the previously implemented
corrections (e.g. bloom staircase artifacts when screen is curved,
elliptic rounded corners when aspect ratio is not 4:3)
- changed default values of curvature, vignetting, reflection, round
corner and smooth border to 0
- reverted compute_size_subroutine() back to non static
- removed some test code
- added experimental bloom overdrive effect and options, this effect
allows to overdrive pure colors like red, green and blue to become more
brighter
- added lcd.ini to parse_standard_inis()
- enabled smooth border effect and added option, its amount is limited
by the amount of rounded corners
- added raster.ini to parse_standard_inis()
- merged vector and raster bloom options, use vector.ini or raster.ini
to distinguish
- fixed defocus strength with difference prescales
- removed default screen ratio of 4:3, ratio is now based on the screen
quad size
- reverted some space to tab changes
- added distortion pass, which is applied after the bloom pass
- moved vignetting, curvature, round corners and reflection effect to
distortion pass
- disabled distortion pass for multi screens and activated artworks due
to not yet fixed misalignments
- disabled scanlines for vector rendering in post pass shader
- removed prescale knowledge from downsample, bloom and post pass shader
- fixed half pixel offset in most shaders
- fixed position of reflection effect when screen is rotated or flipped
- fixed roundness of round corners in any aspect ratio
- fixed shadow mask bleeding (nearly completly)
- added bounds() and screen_bounds() getter to layout_view
- added current_view() getter to render_target
- some cleanup and refactoring
- removed position offset in post.fx
- fixed texture offset caused by 0th level of bloom.fx
- fixed texture offset caused by focus.fx
- changed Passthrough parameter in phosphor.fx to boolean
- simplified defocus pass function and calling it twice
- removed CU_PHOSPHOR_IGNORE (Passthrough) uniform, which was only used
in phosphor pass function and is now directly set
- added CU_TARGET_DIMS (TargetDims) uniform based on the current render
target
- fixed missing Prescal parameter in downsample pass function
- some code cleanup
- added support for post pass effects for vector rendering (does not
work properly in full screen mode, yet)
- made texture_info::compute_size_subroutine() function public static
