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Graphical adjustment software for 2D games?

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First post, by Hareton100

Posted on 2015-04-07, 16:14

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There is a program called SweetFX that can do a lot of things in 3D games without modyfing them. I wondered if it is possible to do something like this with 2D games, specifically I wanted to increase color intensity and contrast in Ultima 7. It's too bleak in my opinion. It shouldn't be hard to apply such filter, right? I just need proper software, if it exists.

Reply 1 of 4, by kolano

Posted on 2015-04-07, 22:35

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There is a patch for DOSBox that support shader filters, and a few builds that include it (Yhkwong's DAUM, a few others). As long as you have some understanding of how shaders work, it should be easy enough to generate one for your desired output.

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Reply 2 of 4, by Hareton100

Posted on 2015-04-08, 06:07

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I have no idea about shaders. But in this case any shader editor would work. Does SweetFX work with DOSBox?

Reply 3 of 4, by kolano

Posted on 2015-04-09, 15:56

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It likely should, though you may need to configure an appropriate graphics mode in DOSBox (i.e. DirectX vs OpenGL, I don't have clarity on which may work with SweetFX). I think SweetFX is based on HLSL shaders which should be transferable to DOSBox's direct shader support (CG shaders are unsupported atm).

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