Scanlines Renderer?

TeleVisor · Medic **Joined**: 17 Dec 2020

Hi Everyone,

(Quick intro: after rediscovering TS and finding out the impressive mods some of you guys made during all these years, I have been lurking these forums for a few months, and modding TS has become a whole new hobby in itself. So thank you for your very inspiring work!
All right... ).

I was wondering how difficult (and time-consuming) would it be to create a graphic renderer which shows scanlines, or a raster effect, during gameplay.

Specifically, for someone who knows nothing about DLLs, EXE hacking, or basically anything related to develop such a thing.

Any advice? Razz

Tuc0 · Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2020 8:17 pm Post subject:

Try Reshade, it is free postprocessing tool, that can be used almost in any game. It has many effects you can adjust on top of eachother in real-time. Plus if games have directX depth buffer, other effects like shaders, pathtracing, etc. can be used.
But I did managed it to work only with one of the TS renderer, not remember which one.

TeleVisor · Medic **Joined**: 17 Dec 2020

Thank you.
I tried it and it works with the Direct3D 9 renderer. My only problem with that though, is that D3D doesn't have VSync.

I'll look for a Reshade equivalent which is compatible with DDrawCompact (if it exists).

Otherwise, an ideal solution would be making a clone of DDC, but with scanlines coded in (if that's even possible).

GREEN · Cyborg Soldier **Joined**: 26 Dec 2016

got a pic for what type of scanlines ye have in mind? black every other line?

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