(07-17-2013, 02:55 PM)MaJoR Wrote: [ -> ]That's why NV said you'd need a 4k monitor to properly replicate a CRT. As the article talked about, phosphor bloom isn't implement. With that in place the scanlines and pixel grid blur out, and you get more or less the normal CRT experience (fuzzy noisy crap). You'd really need some obscenely high resolution and pixel density to emulate that stuff. Until those things are implemented, scanlines are just too obvious, and by adding them you actually go away from the CRT "experience".
Which makes me wonder what the point of them is at this moment. We've had these types of CRT filters for years (ever since I got into emulation a decade ago), and they haven't been looking very good while we've been waiting for our super-resolution monitors. I know for sure I have a CRT TV in the basement (that thing was heavy) that used to be in my room for ages (I enjoyed the entire GC era on that baby) and I know I had a CRT computer monitor (dunno if it's still down there). Maybe I'll use them sometime since it's been years. Or maybe I'll sell them (at obscene prices) to all of those hipsters
Genesis games would use CRT's to get around 64 color and no transparency limitations. Alternate 2 colors and the NTSC encoder would mush them together to make a 3rd color or to make an object transparent just draw every other pixel so it gets blended into the background. To get the intended look a CRT filter is needed. Too bad the look at my Sega with RGB output on my Sony Trinitron people can't realize that.
lamedude Wrote:To get the intended look a CRT filter is needed.
I assume you're talking about the more accurate CRT filters, not the cheap ones with the black lines (which is what I meant by "these types of CRT filters"). If we don't have the display hardware (yet) to take advantage of those silly black lines to make them look decent, one wonders why they've been around so long and are preferred by some people :/
As someone from a PAL country, we never had to deal with half of this rubbish even on an actual CRT. The issue is mainly the pig-being-branded squeal they emit when they're turned on.
So, did you pass your physics class?
Been finishing my new book. On sale in october
Y-you're writing Vador?! Any previews available of it? Is it going to be in French, or will you publish it internationally?
(07-17-2013, 11:54 PM)Garteal Wrote: [ -> ]So, did you pass your physics class?
I obviously don't know since I just wrote my last one, but I guess it's safe to say that I passed
(not like I was really afraid of not passing anyway)
LordVador, you're making me feel lazy :p I just started mine last month. More info about your book please. You have an early congratulations from me, good luck.