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Title: How are you setting vector arcade games in MAME .204 ?
Post by: Mr. Peabody on November 30, 2018, 01:01:36 am: HLSL used to handle vector bloom, and does when I run, say, .159 . I can't find ANYthing on it. I think it's broken, as enabling HLSL for vector games crashes them.
Title: Re: How are you setting vector arcade games in MAME .204 ?
Post by: TheManuel on November 30, 2018, 08:32:44 am: I'm not sure why it would crash for you but I'm using the default MAME HLSL preset.
You need to enable the d3d backend for HLSL to work as there is nothing similar in BGFX:
video d3d
If you are not on Windows, I don't know is there is an alternative.
Title: Re: How are you setting vector arcade games in MAME .204 ?
Post by: Mr. Peabody on December 02, 2018, 06:54:07 pm: Isn't D3D the default rendering? I'm using Windows 7. Verbose said scanlines.fx and chroma.fx were missing. I don't know how. Replacing the hlsl folder fixed that. Setting bloom scale to .75 gives an effect of brighter-ness, and the lines pulse white into screen changes, for example from the logo screen to level screen.
Title: Re: How are you setting vector arcade games in MAME .204 ?
Post by: TheManuel on December 03, 2018, 08:39:53 am: I believe the default is auto which usually does choose D3D in windows. If those files were missing perhaps you've updated just the MAME executable at some point and missed updating those.

I'm not sure about your issue with bloom. Is it phosphor persistence you are seeing, perhaps?
Title: Re: How are you setting vector arcade games in MAME .204 ?
Post by: Mr. Peabody on December 05, 2018, 04:34:33 pm: No no. In older HLSL increasing bloom created a haze around lines. That is no longer there. The pulse is a flash as the screen changes. It could be my hardware, but I wouldn't know what to check for.
Title: Re: How are you setting vector arcade games in MAME .204 ?
Post by: Mr. Peabody on January 04, 2019, 05:18:59 pm: Tried 205 on another computer/display adapter and an LCD monitor. Positive values of bloom make lines translucent and lighter. No bloom. And the flash still occurs when the screen changes.
Title: Re: How are you setting vector arcade games in MAME .204 ?
Post by: Moksi on January 13, 2019, 07:13:15 am: is there someone with a fine tuned vector hlsl setting with 0.205 that like to share.
plz send

thanks
Title: Re: How are you setting vector arcade games in MAME .204 ?
Post by: TheManuel on January 13, 2019, 09:30:42 am: I'd like to see one too. I use a slightly modified version of crt-geom-deluxe but don't have an HLSL setup that I really like, in case I decide I need d3d video.
Title: Re: How are you setting vector arcade games in MAME .204 ?
Post by: Mr. Peabody on January 16, 2019, 06:23:42 pm: People who know better must not be using recent MAME, since it's obviously wrong.
Title: Re: How are you setting vector arcade games in MAME .204 ?
Post by: Mr. Peabody on February 01, 2019, 01:43:22 pm: It occurs to me that most people are using shaders. I think them being too much for my system, hence using HLSL - which apparently is broken.