Smooth motion lost most of its generated frames with bloom on (R4 race,
120 Hz: ~30% of bloom-off). Measured and fixed in order of cost:
- Depth-stencil blits (CPU milliseconds each on macOS) are gone:
generation surfaces no longer copy the marks and are not marked while
drawn (generated frames reuse the newer real frame's mask); the
native-wide centre copy is colour only again and the mask takes the
centre's marks from the hr surface; the mask itself is resolved in the
presented surface's own pixels through an R8 target that shares the
surface's depth-stencil renderbuffer, then mapped to the window.
- Marking needs one pass per batch, not two: 3D batches only set, 2D
opaque ones only clear, semi-transparent ones only set; only batches of
unknown make (queued replays, lines) still do both.
- No full-size copy of the image: `source_down` (a blit straight to the
pass's size) feeds the bright pass, and the composite screen-blends onto
the window (`blend screen`; unlit pixels are discarded, so they keep their
exact value). The debug split/bloom-only views go with the copy.
M4, R4 race, render thread + reprojection, PSX_FRAME_GEN_FORCE, a host
loaded by other work (absolute rates low): bloom pass on real / generated
frames 1.2 / 0.7 ms at 1080p, 1.3 / 0.9 ms at 1440p, 2.6 / 1.6 ms at 4K
(glFinish-bracketed); generated frames with bloom 79-80% of bloom-off at
all three (was ~30%). A 1/8-resolution blur chain was tried and kept no
more frames, so the 1/4 chain (the look) stays.
Tests: parser (blend, source_down, bloom preset reads no full copy), GL
fixture (source_down + blend screen chain exact; HUD and mask checks
unchanged), FXAA unchanged.
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pfx_stage_load checked loaded before failed, so a preset whose pass did not
compile was rebuilt on every present. failed is checked first; setting
[video] post_shader again (same path or not) reloads and clears it. The GL
fixture presents once more and checks no rebuild happened; the parser
fixture writes its sample files in binary mode (LF byte-exact on Windows).
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- Uniform locations are looked up once per program (each lookup can be a
driver round trip on a threaded GL; the executor runs per present,
generated frames included).
- State save queries only capability flags and the viewport. The mask pass
no longer clears (it draws 0 then 1), so the clear colour is never
touched; the present's window target and texture unit 0 are left bound.
The GL fixture checks exactly that contract.
- postfx_chain_test: a preset with CRLF line ends parses the same, and the
import check writes its shader in binary mode (it failed on Windows).
- docs/POST_EFFECTS.md: `generated reuse`.
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Post effects now run as chains of full-screen fragment passes on one
executor (gl_postfx.inc), as asked in review. A chain is a small .pfx preset
(postfx_chain.c, GL-free): passes with a shader (a file next to the preset or
builtin:<name>), inputs (source, the optional primitive-derived mask,
previous or a named earlier pass), a scale, format, filter and uniforms.
The executor owns target allocation and lifetime, program build/cache,
uniform binding (u_rcp, u_size, u_org) and GL state save/restore.
Stages, in order, each from a fresh copy of the image: the built-in "bloom"
chain ([video] bloom), a user chain ([video] post_shader / PSX_POST_SHADER,
elective, off by default), and the built-in "fxaa"/"fxaa_hq" chain
([video] antialiasing_mode). FXAA folds in as a one-pass chain and its
output is byte-identical to the former fixed pass; it still runs on real
frames only. Generated (Smooth motion) frames run bloom and the user chain.
The "may glow" mask is an optional pipeline input: draws keep stencil bit 1
only while an active chain reads `mask`, and the window-sized mask texture is
built once per present for the chains that use it.
Tests: postfx_chain_test (format, built-ins, errors, file import, no GL);
gl_bloom_test gains an imported two-pass chain (byte-exact invert), the mask
input (HUD unlit, 3D lit), a bad preset, a pass that does not compile, and GL
state restored with bloom + a mask chain + FXAA on, all on the caller thread
and the render thread. docs/POST_EFFECTS.md documents the format.
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[video] bloom = 0.0 (off, default) .. 2.0 adds a glow around lights on the
OpenGL backend. PSX_BLOOM overrides it for one run; {"cmd":"bloom"} reads or
changes strength, threshold and a debug view live. It is a plain [video] key,
so [quality.*] presets can switch it off on low-end machines.
The HUD never glows: with bloom on every textured and untextured draw is
followed by two stencil-only passes of the same vertices that keep a
"may glow" mark in stencil bit 1 (bit 0 stays the mask-bit mirror). Opaque
primitives clear it under their coverage, then PGXP-proven 3D primitives and
additive semi-transparent texels/primitives (modes 1 and 3) set it, painter
ordered like the colour; 3D and non-3D primitives never share a batch while
bloom is on. Semi-transparent primitives leave the mark alone and the PGXP
depth-clear pass (colour writes off) marks nothing. Without PGXP geometry only
additive primitives glow.
The pass runs on the composed game image before AA and the OSD: the presented
surface's marks are blitted into a quarter-resolution stencil, a soft-knee
bright pass runs under it, three separable Gaussian iterations spread it and a
screen blend adds it back. The marks follow the picture: native-wide centre
copies and Smooth motion surfaces (redraw and reprojection) copy stencil with
colour, and generated frames get the same pass. Off: nothing runs, no state
changes, and the composed frame is byte-identical to master.
test_gl_bloom (gl_bloom_test): off is byte-identical before/after bloom and
with --dump against master; on, a bright 2D panel and a panel over a lit 3D
polygon are byte-identical to off, an additive and a 3D polygon glow; guest
VRAM is unchanged; on this thread and on the render thread.
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