dolphin/Source/Core/VideoCommon/PostProcessing.cpp, branch 2512

VideoBackends / VideoCommon: add support for specifying include files in shader code

2025-10-27T03:47:23+00:00

VideoCommon: Move backend_info out of VideoConfig struct.

2025-03-09T07:42:45+00:00

Core/VideoCommon: Fix some weird (!eof) logic.

2024-12-31T02:13:59+00:00

PostProcessing: Don't potentially leak memory in BlitFromTexture()

2024-01-23T18:34:40+00:00

All release() does is relinquish the pointer, rather than free the
memory associated with it.

PostProcessing: Remove unnecessary get() calls in BlitFromTexture()

2024-01-23T18:34:16+00:00

We can just use operator-> instead.

VideoBackends / VideoCommon: add type enum to dictate whether a texture is a 2D texture, a texture array, or a cube map; support 2D texture type across backends

2023-12-15T17:06:02+00:00

Co-authored-by: TellowKrinkle

PostProcessing: Mark helper functions as static

2023-12-11T22:07:59+00:00

These didn't have any prototypes and were generating
-Wmissing-declaration warnings.

Video: fix post process shaders with parameters failing to build on OpenGL

2023-08-17T23:00:56+00:00

This was because the shader uniforms between the pixel and vertex shaders
were willingly left different, to avoid filling the vertex shader with unnecessary
params. Turns out all backends are fine with this except OGL.
The new behaviour is now much more consistent and well explained,
the "default" shaders are the ones that always run, and the non default
ones are the user selected ones (if any).

Video: implement output resampling (upscaling/downscaling) methods

2023-08-17T23:00:55+00:00

Video: implement color correction to match the NTSC and PAL color spaces (and gamma) that GC and Wii targeted.

2023-06-18T22:34:42+00:00

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 
Co-authored-by: Dogway