Two Questions... Fullscreen Shader

[Danny]

I've worked with shaders in the past on 3D engines, but when it comes to MMF2 Dev I've never had the chance to even revise anything let alone try anything.

Some of my games are being developed at 480x320, the sprites and graphics are drawn at a costly but nice resolution of 150dpi, however some of the graphics look quite 'edgy' and 'blocky' in fullscreen.

So my question is, is there a fullscreen shader to apply a 'blur' effect or more importantly a 'Gaussian Blur' to the whole screen (which should in turn curve off those nasty edges)

My second question is, can a shader like this be applicable per layer?

I've not had chance at all to revise any of the HWA stuff yet, but it would be a good footing if I could get these questions answered to see if this is a good route to go down to achieve a much deeper effect.

Danny :cool:

[UltimateWalrus]

What's the point of using a low resolution if you don't like the way pixels look? Anyway one option would be to go into the application properties, check "Resize display to fill window size" and then "Anti-aliasing while resizing."

[Danny]

iOS/Android rescaling?

I already knew about the Anti-Aliasing, however, I wanted to know if a full screen shader could be implemented per layer, rather than per screen.

[CeriJC]

Sorry to bump an old post, but after much searching I couldn't find anything else on this topic. I have just about gotten the hang of applying shaders to objects now, but would love to be able to set a shader that covers everything displayed on the screen. Specifically, I'm looking for a good way of doing faux-scanlines and my current cludge of a large transparent active object running on the top layer is both ugly and inefficient.

I'm not that fussed about it being exporter-independent; I know the HLSL shaders are only supported on the Window exporter at present.

On a related note, any word on whether 3.0 will stick with HLSL shaders or if it'll change to GLSL? Would be amazing to be able to run some of the Shadertoy.com shaders on our apps!

[piscesdreams]

I'm not near my PC at the moment to verify the shader name (maybe it was just scan lines) but there is in fact a scan line shader that you can apply to an entire layer or the entire frame.

[CeriJC]

I can write a scanline shader myself (in fact, I'd actually prefer my own, to sort out other things like sub-pixel colour bleed, etc.)

I suppose what I'm asking for help with is "how do I apply a single shader to a whole frame?"

I'm sure it's painfully obvious when you know, but after weeks of looking, I'm still scratching my head.

For clarity, I know how to apply shaders to individual objects, backdrops, etc., but not *everything* in the frame with one shader.

[piscesdreams]

Click on the frame in the main application tree, view properties and add the shader as you would with any active.

[CeriJC]

Perfect! works great, thanks a lot for helping with this, I'd been pulling my hair out for weeks.