For fans of pixelation, check this graphics mod for Doom

[Pixel Fiend]

I used to think that pixel-perfect pixelation would be my ultimate goal in making Doom look beautiful, but actually I'm never fully satisfied with the look. In a 3D game, there's never a perfect line between blurriness, sharpness and grain. Yesterday I accidentally ticked "Luma sharpen" setting from Mari FX shader loaded after Pixel Retro FX shader and I can't shake how amazed I am with the result. It reminds me of the effects the developers of Prodeus use in their promo art. When you walk around, there's no such grain distortion I've seen before and every square is strikingly accentuated witout looking rough. What is visible here is that every 4x4 pixel square is given a pixel-wide illumination border. Obviously not everyone is a fan of pixelation but to me personally, this makes this game's visuals substantially more consistent by today's standards.

 

 

Edited May 2, 2020 by <<Rewind

[Redneckerz]

Mari FX isn't a built in Doom graphic setting as far as i know, nor is Pixel Retro FX.

 

Admittely the pic does look good, but by Doom graphic setting, i associate that with a built-in option in a source port. Mari FX and Pixel Retro FX aren't part of source ports. :)

[NoXion]

Are there links for either of these? Google is not being useful.

[Redneckerz]

39 minutes ago, NoXion said:

Are there links for either of these? Google is not being useful.

• MariFX Shader Suite + Github
• Retro FX is an older shader part of MariENB. Github.

Not sure what Pixel Retro FX is, but it might be one of the two below:

 

There is also Indecom's Retro FX with Dither and torridgristle's RetroShader.

[Pixel Fiend]

https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=103&amp;t=60127 

https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=103&amp;t=63394

 

Thanks for replying. To be honest, I was hesitant if anyone would even be interested in the topic and I forgot about placing those two links. The other two pixelation shaders you mention didn't work properly for me. I'm still satisfied using luma sharpening and I realized the graphic settings mod settings I used before were rather too blurry. Here's a comparison picture: before (up) and now (down). This lazy pic has jpeg damage but conveys the gist

 

 

 

[Redneckerz]

27 minutes ago, <<Rewind said:

Here's a comparison picture: before (up) and now (down). This lazy pic has jpeg damage but conveys the gist

 

 

 

The two look nothing alike. If you were using these to demonstrate Luma Sharpen, wouldn't the exact same picture with the effect on and off make more sense?

[Pixel Fiend]

Luma sharpen off

 

 

Luma sharpen on

 

 

[Pixel Fiend]

But my older screenshots don't seem that blurry, so I'm not completely sure if I hadn't messed something up for it to look so.