Blender shader-based halftone CMYK offset printing emulation process

by CyMonkon 5/27/2022, 2:11 PMwith 52 comments

by arcticbullon 5/27/2022, 2:35 PM

Gorgeous. I'd love to see a side-scroller or roguelike type game in this visual style.

> MRMO-Halftone "Deluxe" version can be used in both non-commercial and commercial projects of any kind, excluding those relating to or containing non-fungible tokens ("NFT") or blockchain-related projects.

Warms my heart <3

by Ombudsmanon 5/27/2022, 6:49 PM

Halftone webgl tutorial here: https://weber.itn.liu.se/~stegu/webglshadertutorial/shadertu...

by focusedoneon 5/27/2022, 3:57 PM

Wow, this is a calibration mark and inky fingers away from perfect nostalgia.

Does the offset mismatch do rotation too?

by gilleainon 5/27/2022, 7:09 PM

Reminds me of when I started gaming there was a cRPG series called the 'gold box' - pools of radiance, curse of the azure bonds, secret of the silver swords, etc.

The first of these was in CGA (I guess corresponding to CMYK?) which was I think '4-bit'. Then 'Curse' was EGA and Silver Blades was VGA.

Ok on looking these up, its way more complicated than that. Still, those colours are a nostalgia trip...

by thetwentyoneon 5/27/2022, 3:47 PM

This is very cool! Are there any libraries to do this with HTML elements? I'd love to do certain site content in a similar way.

by ameliuson 5/28/2022, 12:57 AM

I'd like to see this further developed, where the resolution is increased such that the halftone effect becomes invisible.

by jamesfisheron 5/28/2022, 2:35 PM

Nice, but weird to mix it with retro pixel art. Simultaneously simulating old print AND old screens?

by junonon 5/28/2022, 12:19 AM

Beautiful. Would love to see this ported to an engine.

by stoicjumbotronon 5/28/2022, 6:53 AM

This is insanely good! Will definitely buy this.

by matthewfcarlsonon 5/27/2022, 2:58 PM

This looks gorgeous. A really clever idea