Pixelate shader, filter2D [BGE]

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My first handwrited 2d filter for blender game engine.
Its convert image in pixel image.

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//Author SL_RU. e-mail: [[email protected]](http://vk.com/[email protected])
//2013

uniform sampler2D bgl_RenderedTexture;

void main()
{float ScreenW = 640., ScreenH = 480.;
float Pixeliz = 5.;

float pixW = Pixeliz*(1./ScreenW), pixH = Pixeliz*(1./ScreenH);
vec2 pos = vec2(pixW*floor(gl_TexCoord[0].x/pixW), pixH*floor(gl_TexCoord[0].y/pixH));
gl_FragColor = texture2D(bgl_RenderedTexture, pos);
}
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That’s pretty good! For some constructive criticism:

  1. You can use bgl_RenderedTextureWidth / bgl_RenderedTextureHeight to eliminate having to specify the screen size through variables.
  2. You can offset the sample positions by a bit to eliminate that blurriness you get on some of the edges of the objects.
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Thank you for answer!

How to do it? I don’t understand…
Sorry, i’m from Russia and know English only a bit…

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Great work, thanks!

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This takes me back to the SNES days… even though I never had one.

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I used this for a game

http://gamejolt.com/games/arcade/conform/28396/

grazie

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I glad to hear it!
Nice game!

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Sorry for missing this. Yours looks pretty good, actually.

You can check out a shader I made here that’s similar if you want to (in the SFL.py file, the Pixellate() function).

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Thanks for posting this. If anyone sees this, can you point me to where I can learn about .fs and whatever this language is

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It is GLSL. You use it with the filter2D actuator on custom filter. It’s executed everyframe (compiled beforehand). It has C-Style syntax. Here you have some good tutorials: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GLSL_Programming/Blender
Those tutorials are generic for any shaders (not only 2D filters), check this too: https://sites.google.com/site/blendergameengine/customfilter

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book marking those pages now

At first i was confused that I might have needed to download some plug in to do this, but after trying the filter last night I realized you can just go ahead and start using that language in blender without anything extra! So sweet

Unfortunately, the pixel shader looks way more ‘censored’ than it does ‘old gamey’ because the frame rate is still high. Then when i put the frame rate down, everything mooooveeessss soooo slooooow and the magnitudes and animations are all out of scale. I thought this was funny, not a complaint

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Don’t use an Always sensor with True pulse mode with 2D Filters, if that’s what you’re doing…

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Can this filter be used to increase screen resolution not just to decrease it ? Like resolution scaling in BF4 ? Can we make the pixel size be 0.2 ?

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WTF? Do you think this is CSI or something?

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lol just read this after looking for this thread again

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Hi I know it’s been 5 years, but is there a way to make this shader sharper?Especially along the silhouettes of objects, I keep getting artefacts along the edge, even with AA samples off
image

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GLSL UPDATE

Fixed the original pixelate script to work in UPBGE 0.3x releases. Enjoy.

uniform sampler2D bgl_RenderedTexture;

in vec4 bgl_TexCoord;
out vec4 fragColor;

void main() {

    float ScreenW = 640.0, ScreenH = 480.0;
    float Pixeliz = 5.0;

    float pixW = Pixeliz*(1.0/ScreenW), pixH = Pixeliz*(1.0/ScreenH);
    vec2 pos = vec2(pixW*floor(bgl_TexCoord.x/pixW), pixH*floor(bgl_TexCoord.y/pixH));
    fragColor = texture(bgl_RenderedTexture, pos);
}
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