ZDoom

This is a port of the film grain shader from https://www.shadertoy.com/view/Mdj3zd but combined with the concept of a pixelated screen shader from https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/quest ... ion-shader

What makes this shader different from your typical film grain shader? Have you noticed that with usual film grain shaders, the effect becomes harder to see as your video resolution goes up? That is because the effect is applied per-pixel, so at 640x480, for example, the effect is very clear, but at 4k resolution, you almost can't see the effect because the pixels are too tiny. Then you compensate for this by cranking the "amount", but then it starts to look bad because you are just making the viewport harder to see.

With this shader, the size of one "grain" stays constant no matter resolution you're using. You can use the options to adjust the pixel size - lower number produces larger, blockier grains.

This shader is best understood by just running it and playing with the options, while changing resolutions. The film grain effect and intensity will remain consistent regardless of whatever resolution you set.

Have fun!

EDIT: Updated on 02/28/2020 - better random noise generator (fixes weird bug where the grain starts having zig-zag patterns after extended lengths of time)

This is cool!

Thanks. Feel free to use in BoA if you want - I know you love shaders. ;)

Will check this and replace actual noise filter on BoA with this one

Aaaand it has been added, wonder if there are some fallbacks or issues since I kept zscript version at 3.7.2 as present on BoA instead of 4.2.0 (which generated a little pack of deprecated warnings not belonging only to Film Grain anyway)

ZScript version should be irrelevant, as far as I can tell, I didn't use any new ZScript-side features for this shader. :)

Noticed it in the end... Thanks a lot for this shader!

Now all we need is a VHS shader lol

XLightningStormL wrote:Now all we need is a VHS shader lol

I do recall seeing one that at least comes close to that. "Old Video Shader" was its name, I believe.

Updated on 02/28/2020 - better random noise generator (fixes weird bug where the grain starts having zig-zag patterns after extended lengths of time)

Ah thanks for the update, need to fiddle it and export that on BoA later then

You can just lift the updates from the shader (.fp) file - there are no changes to any of the other files. :)