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Re: I feel like I'm missing something when it comes to HLSL
09/30/13 06:27 PM
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> > Is it just me, or does HLSL look nothing like a real CRT monitor?
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> The default settings for HLSL are similar to the so-called "torch mode" that modern
> HDTVs default to where the picture is unnaturally bright and vivid because that's
> what uneducated consumers prefer (and also because your average Best Buy has way
> brighter lighting than your average living room). In the case of CRT simulation,
> emulation users have shown a marked preference for a look that I describe as "the
> monitor PCB is on fire while the CRT is being sucked into Cygnus X-1": extreme
> curvature that you'd never see on a real physical object that could hold a vacuum,
> all the settings that correspond to "fucked up capacitors" cranked to 11, and so on.
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> Many users have come up with much better settings; if you actually learn what all the
> settings do you can accurately simulate the trademark foibles of pretty much any
> monitor on the planet, because it's all mathematically based on the actual physics of
> CRTs and their associated electronics.
I was playing with HLSL for the first time in quite a while the other day. To me, the default settings look kind of like the image you'd get filming a CRT with a video camera, like what you'd see in a period news piece about arcade games. Not how I'd want to play games all the time, but it is kind of a neat effect. It's so processed it almost doesn't look like a live game you can interact with.
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Not working. Even hit Scroll/lock.
