Dolphin Progress Report

[iwubcode]

Nice job. I forgot to mention on your PR but thank you for making this

[Silent Hell]

Nice job.  I forgot to mention on your PR but thank you for making this

Thanks! It's something I've wanted for a long time, and you guys already got all the other major ones I wanted, so  I figured I'd complete my list.
So, no, thank YOU.

[e2zippo]

@e2zippo - what level did you try?  I don't have the game to test but it's possible the goop resolution is something outside what we are expecting.  Can you show a screenshot of the mod on and off?

It doesn't sound like you did anything wrong.  No, that is a builtin mod so it should "just work".

Sorry for the late reply!
It was on Bianco Hills and it looks the same with or without the mod.
Although it seems to be blocky even at native res now that I tested.

[Craftyawesome]

Sorry for the late reply!
It was on Bianco Hills and it looks the same with or without the mod.
Although it seems to be blocky even at native res now that I tested.

Image:

Hmm. Native definitely looks less blocky, I don't know why you don't see it. But I guess the mod doesn't work on shine 5, since I can't get it to work either. The goop in shine 1 works for me, though.

Shine 5 images:

1x


4x

Shine 1 images:

1x


4x no mod


4x mod

[NaturalViolence]

Great stuff! The graphics mods are really cool. I thought we'd never get rid of that awful offset bloom effect.

This. I never thought I would see the day.

[Silent Hell]

Are there any other games that use bloom that haven't been looked into yet? I heard Prime's bloom is fucky.

[NaturalViolence]

Prime 3, Twilight Princess, and Skyward Sword are the worst offenders off the top of my head. The earlier GC games mostly don't have an issue with this. But the Wii is rampant with games that use this same crappy bloom shader that nintendo came up with.

[MayImilae]

Sonic Colours is another big one.

But the Wii is rampant with games that use this same crappy bloom shader that nintendo came up with.

It's because HDRI was finally possible and growing in use during the early to mid 2000s, but the GameCube (and thus Wii) doesn't support an HDR pipeline. So Nintendo faked the look of HDRI by using multiple blurred layers with blend modes that gives the impression of overexposure. The effect looks good at intended resolutions (certainly better than the many terrible HDRI implementations in that period), but the technique's defining limitation is that it can only upscale or downscale within a certain range without falling apart. It was not a new technique and Nintendo didn't even come up with it - you'll find it in many titles, even on PC, in the early to mid 2000s. Prince of Persia Sands of Time on PC, for example, uses the same technique and reveals the same weirdness at high resolutions.

[Mariojacob7red]

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2021/04/05/...arch-2021/

The February and March 2021 Dolphin Progress Report is live! Feel free to discuss this month's update below.

Free Look Troubles:

I know I may be a little late to the game in saying this, but ever since Free Look had an update, I can no longer use rotation for any game I play, no matter the controller or if I choose keyboard and mouse. I've also tried every setting I could think of to try to get it to work again, but nothing's working. Could someone help me figure out how to get rotation to work again? I'd really appreciate it if anyone has any ideas, including the developers.

Thanks guys!

[MayImilae]

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2022/09/13/...gust-2022/

The July and August 2022 Dolphin Progress Report is live! Feel free to discuss this month's update below.