There's probably a way to do it through HLSL Direct3D postprocessing using that d3d patch (found in yhkwong's build). I know i've done the same to Darkplaces and OA before.

If you had the original disks for Dark Queen of Krynn, you could install EGA or Tandy 16-color graphics. Eye of the Beholder III does not support EGA, despite what MobyGames claims (change just submitted).

I forgot to check DQoK for EGA files, because I was going by memory; I have it on the dos box series cd, so that's covered, unless they are somehow differently packaged, I'll have to check.

But yeah, EoB 3 has no EGA files, I was thinking something like what leileilol wrote, but I've never used yhkwong, so I'll ask: is something that even a code illiterate can use?

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Thank you, I was not sure that was the right section indeed...

By the way, is there some way to do the thing leileilol says without scripting an effect, that I've no clue?

I'd do it if I knew HLSL. I've done it before in GLSL (really, it was a bunch of if's)

leileilol wrote:

I'd do it if I knew HLSL. I've done it before in GLSL (really, it was a bunch of if's)

Haha, W3C needs to adopt "SkiFreeDogPee" as the official CSS name for #AAAA00, POST-HASTE.

anyway, here's a quick and dirty HLSL port. Needs "shader.code" which is included with ykhwong's distribution anyway.
http://ompldr.org/vZ3ltMg/EGAfilter.fx
I just tinkered with some of the numbers... can't really get it to look "right", and dark gray doesn't show up at all - there's probably a way to fix that, I just didn't try very hard (never touched HLSL before either). Anyone else want to play with this?

Well yeah, it could be done much better. I had a hard time getting even grays. Best to test with an actual EGA game (Commander Keen 4 is a good one for its use of grays)
I think the shader I posted was modified to adjust for OA's overbrights

This looks interesting, I'll test this evening, and try to understand the code, thank you!

Here's a rewrite... it uses a lookup table for downsampling, so you get dark gray, and actual EGA/tandy games show no changes.
http://ompldr.org/vZ3l4OQ/EGAfilter.fx

Performance is surprisingly semi-OK even on my crap GPU!

Aww! This is so cool! Thank you very much! 😀

Sometimes I don't ever see the dark greens, i.e. in Heretic

How would this look with crtfx... 😁

I tried to port the shader into Media Player Classic, weird result.
is therey any good (16 color) dithering shaders available?

A dither table could also work in HLSL, maybe a simple 50% one

I played Settlers 2 in 16 colours. Not that bad.

Here's a modified version with saturation control.

ooh, good idea - keeps the gray away. More greens are showing up 😀

Unfortunately there's bugs with oversaturation like at 4.5, didn't really cap it
Check out the clipping on X's boots

(this is ZSNES in 16-bit color mode)

Also I was able to combine it with the CRT shader, though for some reason it takes a long time to load

I don't think I've ever heard of anyone wanting less colors in a game before...