Sunday, May 1, 2022

Home features release Commodore Pack RC3.1 comes with Commodore slot-mask and aperture-grille pixel shader

Commodore Pack RC3.1 comes with Commodore slot-mask and aperture-grille pixel shader

Heya brothers in pixels!

Following experimentations with CRT shaders, I decided to release an intermediate RC to include a separate chain for slot-mask and aperture-grille.

This includes heavy modified versions of some really nice pixel shaders from the Libretro community:

Commodore displays are set to Slot-Mask. Procedural bezels make use of Aperture-grille.

Here we go with the changelog:

Mega Bezel Commodore Pack RC3.1 (May 1st, 2022)

New release for public testing, added a new pixel shader chain to customize displays CRT visuals. BONUS: squashed some minor visual bug.

Software requirements:

Features:

Added CRT-TECH CHAIN to get pixel shaders customization according to actual IRL display technology

Enhancements:

Added CRT-TECH SLOT-MASK COMMODORE for Commodore displays visuals (based off CRT-A2080-HiResSmartResShader by Guest.R & Rincewind)
Added CRT-TECH APERTURE-GRILLE SHARP for procedural bezels visuals (based off Death-to-Pixels by Cyber)

Fixes:

Fixed SCALE PRESETS for better visual coherence across curved, flat and integer (tnx Ryusan)
Fixed SCENE PRESETS to fix tube reflections texture (tnx HyperSpaceMadness)
Fixed GITHUB REPO STRUCTURE to ease out the updating process for advanced users (tnx HyperSpaceMadness)