To further increase the accuracy of the post process phase, I've added (scRGB) HDR support, which is necessary
to fully display the PAL and NTSC-J color spaces, and also to improve the quality of post process texture samplings and
do them in linear space instead of gamma space (which is very important when playing at low resolutions).
For SDR, the quality is also slightly increased, at least if any post process runs, as the buffer is now
R10G10B10A2 (on Vulkan, DX11 and DX12) if supported; previously it was R8G8B8A8 but the alpha bits were wasted.
Gamma correction is arguably the most important thing as Dolphin on Windows outputted in "sRGB" (implicitly)
as that's what Windows expects by default, though sRGB gamma is very different from the gamma commonly used
by video standards dating to the pre HDR era (roughly gamma 2.35).
Additionally, the addition of HDR support (which is pretty straight forward and minimal), added support for
our own custom AutoHDR shaders, which would allow us to achieve decent looking HDR in Dolphin games without
having to use SpecialK or Windows 11 AutoHDR. Both of which don't necessarily play nice with older games
with strongly different and simpler lighting. HDR should also be supported in Linux.
Development of my own AutoHDR shader is almost complete and will come next.
This has been carefully tested and there should be no regression in any of the different features that Dolphin
offers, like multisampling, stereo rendering, other post processes, etc etc.
Fixes: https://bugs.dolphin-emu.org/issues/8941
Co-authored-by: EndlesslyFlowering <EndlesslyFlowering@protonmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Dogway <lin_ares@hotmail.com>
Replace the bool parameter force5bytes in J, JMP, and J_CC with an enum
class Jump::Short/Near. Many callers set that parameter to the literal
'true', which was unclear if you didn't already know what it did.
-An assert would be erroneously thrown when shaders declared an array of 4 int or float options, despite 4 being the max supported (a simple <= / < mistake)
-When changing the type of a shader option (e.g. from bool to float), the serialization would be stuck appending the value from the previous option type, making the shader fail to build permanently until the cache were cleaned
To maintain compatibility with some video encoders, the whole output buffer was scaled to be a multiple of 4.
This change makes it so that that rule only applies while actively recording (or taking screenshots, even if it might not be necessary for that case).
Enable through command line options:
-C Graphics.Settings.TexturePNGCompressionLevel=[0-9]
Or from GFX.ini:
[Settings]
TexturePNGCompressionLevel=[0-9]
@see #10792