Recreating PS2 atmosphere - I've found logic, coders needed

[Snoops27]

I'm still stupid.

Edited October 10, 2014 by snoops26

[The Hero]

Yes, I understand that, because that's the version you should be using. Use the other one with a PC timecyc.dat, I wrote that in the description.

Edited October 10, 2014 by THE HERO

[Snoops27]

Ah my bad. My brain doesn't process things when I read something as soon as I wake up lol.

[nyolc8]

Can someone tell me how the lovely plugin adjusting the brightness? So what values are getting read from the timecyc?

Edited October 10, 2014 by nyolc8

[Snoops27]

 

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[The Hero]

Can someone tell me how the lovely plugin adjusting the brightness? So what values are getting read from the timecyc?

 

The RGB1/2 and Alpha1/2 values from the timecyc are passed to a function rendering the effect.

This function uses a pixel shader to draw the screen like this:

dst = src*(rgb1 + rgb2*a2)*2

where src is the unprocessed pixel and dst is the post processed pixel.

 

Just look at the source code NTAuthority posted on page 5 or so. Notice that I fixed his code as explained in one of my other posts above.

[_CP_]

Image resolution seems to be a bit decreased, but looks beautiful, well done

PC:

 

PS2:

 

 

 

 

Edited October 10, 2014 by _CP_

[plsdeletemyprofileN0r0k]

HERO, it works awesome, but the bug when driving a fast car with nitro is still here, i downloaded the new lovely2-mod-ps2.asi and used the ps2 timecyc, or did i get an older version?

[El Dorado]

Sun in San Fierro weathers are this way on PS2?

 

 

 

Sky gradient - A shader would do the job I think, but I don't have a single clue of how to do that

Edited October 10, 2014 by format c:

[Wesser]

Sky gradient - A shader would do the job I think, but I don't have a single clue of how to do that

Using shaders is the only way I can think of. The color banding is due to the loss of precision occuring when blending two 32-bit colors (8-bit per channel) whose contrast is visibly different. The less bits precision is, the more the issue is noticeable. We can overcome it by doing the blend between two real colors (with each channel being a floating-point value) within a shader (by passing the colors which make the gradient) for every sky quad. I was rewriting the CClouds::RenderSkyPolys (0x00714650) procedure to make the sky width FOV dependent for WSHPS and try to solve the color banding at the same time, but some requests led me to stop working on momentarily.

 

By the way, nice job, @The Hero.

Edited October 10, 2014 by Wesser

[El Dorado]

Then I request you to start working on it again

Edited October 10, 2014 by format c:

[Wesser]

No promise, though.

[El Dorado]

Motion Blur Advanced makes it even more close to the PS2 look. However, two problems - Don't work on cutscenes and effect coronas, like sun, which don't look nice when blurred.

[SilverRST]

And to make it even more PS2 look, turn down your resolution to 640x480 and turn off AA

[Gummy]

Do we need SAGrading with lovely2-mod-ps2.asi together or just lovely is fine?

[El Dorado]

And to make it even more PS2 look, turn down your resolution to 640x480 and turn off AA

 

640x480 was the original output? On emulators it runs at 640x447

[Blackbird88]

 

And to make it even more PS2 look, turn down your resolution to 640x480 and turn off AA

 

640x480 was the original output? On emulators it runs at 640x447

 

Depends whether the game is NTSC or PAL and what R* actually used.

NTSC can be 480i/480p and PAL 576i/576p

Edited October 10, 2014 by Blackbird88

[VERSA]

Guess. PC or PS2?

 

 

[Blackbird88]

Guess. PC or PS2?

 

 

HUD icon gaves it away

[SilverRST]

@VERSA,

I think PC because of the famous alpha bug lol

[Gummy]

I noticed when using lovely2-mod-ps2.asi the game also blurs out and the resolution lowers a bit, will there be an option to disable that later on?

[TJGM]

I'm pretty sure the blur in intentional and its what gives the game that nice effect. It also covers up aliasing and non-mipmapped textures.

 

Anyway, finally got around to testing it, here's some comparison screenshots.

 

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Off:

 

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[erorcun]

@Prince Gumball

 

Neither of files in this topic have dependencies.

 

And blur was unexpected thing, NTA may work on it if he wants.

[rainlys]

Also, I don't wanna sound repetitive.. but the problem caused by motion blur is pretty annoying when you are driving a high speed car on a highway... the flickering between effect on/off kinda breaks the immersion.

I hope this can be solved..

[inadequate]

^

You can post a screenshots for comparison with it and without?

[-KING-]

The only difference between PC & PS2 is that color saturation

[El Dorado]

Also, I don't wanna sound repetitive.. but the problem caused by motion blur is pretty annoying when you are driving a high speed car on a highway... the flickering between effect on/off kinda breaks the immersion.

I hope this can be solved..

 

You can disable motion blur using this - http://gtag.gtagaming.com/mods/53-stream-ini-extender-07/

I personally disabled it on my game.

[ThirteenAG]

ShaderAPI motion blur works fine:

 

 

But I still think that blurrish effect is not cool.

[rainlys]

^

You can post a screenshots for comparison with it and without?

 

Normal:

 

 

 

 

After accelerating for some seconds:

 

 

 

[Blackbird88]

Yeah that happens to me too. Really annoying.