* added simple procedural texture for vectors with rounded line ends and beam smoothness
* added optional -vector_beam_smooth option
* removed -antialias option, antialiasing is now always applied, except for plain D3D
- vector_length_ratio is now independent from screen size
- changed vector_length_ratio range from [0.0, 1000.0] to [0.0, 1.0]
- updated display name and description of vector_length_scale vector_length_ratio
- separated curvature parameter into distortion, cubic_distortion and distort_corner
- distortion and cubic_distortion can be negative, to compensate each other
- distort_corner is intependent from the image distortion
- reduced raster bloom level to 8
- extended vector bloom level to 15
- changed vector bloom to be less blocky
- removed bloom_lvl9_weight and bloom_lvl10_weight options
- options are reset to loaded preset when game is closed
- changed default values of options to result in no effects activated
- init_slider_list() does not returns but sets g_slider_list directly
- removed unnecessary oriented_vector_texcoords
- HLSL now uses NPOT sized target surfaces (breaks compatibility with
graphics cards based on R300/R400/NV30 and older)
- HLSL target surfaces now have the size of the screen canvas
- removed HLSL pre-scale factor
- HLSL now uses a sharp bilinear interpolation to pre-scale textures to
screen canvas size, based on [Themaister's] implementation
- improved overall performance (based on the previously required
pre-scale factor, you might notice a 5-50% speed-up depending on your
graphics card, more if you used a higher pre-scale factor)
- improved shadow mask quality (pixel-perfect) in screen-mode
- fixed half source texel offset of bloom level alignment
- removed ./hlsl/artwork_support folder
- all shaders after pre-scale are now based on screen coordinate
(workaground, till both raster and vector pass can work on texture
coordinates)
- disabled distortion shader for more than one screen and for artworks
in full mode, does not affect artworks in copped mode (workaground, till
both raster and vector pass can work on texture coordinates)
- moved compute_texture_size() from texture_info to texture_manager (nw)
- merged YIQ encode and decode pass into one NTSC pass
- added options for most NTSC settings
- reduced sample count to 64
- changed default O value to 0
- fit NTSC signal jitter between a reasonable limit of 0 and 1
- fit A and B value between a reasonable limit of -1 and 1
- fit scanline jitter between a reasonable limit of 0 and 1
- added hum bar simulation based on [MooglyGuy's] GLSL port of the mame
shader pipeline
- added monochrome-chessboard.png
- added slot-mask-aligned.png (to simulate a TFT LCD)
- added shadow mask type option to choose between "Screen" and "Source"
tile mode ("Screen" is the default as before)
- added bloom type option to choose between "Addition" and "Darken"
blend mode ("Addition" is the default as before)
- the alpha channel of a shadow mask is now filled with the background
color of the screen by the amount of the inverted alpha value
- added monochrome-matrix.png which can be used in combination with
"Source" tile mode and "Darken" blend mode to simulate a STN LCD, for
example
