Arcane Bloom

Arcane Bloom, AKA MagicBloom 2(4) Electric Bogaloo



tl;dr Files available here: ArcaneBloom.fx ArcaneBloom.fxh
Right click and "save as", put both files into your effects/shaders folder.

Almost an year (or more) ago, I posted about an update to Magic Bloom, a shader I made for the reshade-shaders repository.
In the meantime I worked on a few other versions, which are available in my personal repository as well if you'd like to try them.

This is meant to be a flexible and thorough bloom solution, but currently I still consider it a work-in-progress.

Some improvements I'll be adding are a debug mode, dirt texture support and maybe coloring too.

Right now it features inverse tonemapping as brightpass, eye adaptation, custom texture distribution, custom gamma or sRGB curve, white point fixing, maximum brightness adjustment etc.
I also try to make some things available to other shaders through the "ArcaneBloom.fxh" header, like the adaptation texture.

Feel free to leave some feedback, I'll read when I can.

I really like Magic Bloom, thank you very much for this update.

Imo this is the best bloom shader ever made for ReShade, and believe me, I tried every single one of them. Great job.

Added simple debug technique for displaying the final bloom texture.
Here you can see how good custom distribution can be.

Already pushed to my repo, only ArcaneBloom.fx was changed.

luluco250 wrote: Added simple debug technique for displaying the final bloom texture.
Here you can see how good custom distribution can be.

~ Damn, dude, this settings, are very incredible, I really enjoyed it!!

Added support for dirt textures using multiply-add + linear interpolation. Currently it does not have any built-in aspect ratio fix, I believe it is better to adjust the texture itself, it's resolution is set to the same as the display.

I have provided a basic 16:9 dirty lens texture, "ArcaneBloom_Dirt.png". You may notice it's the same as "MagicBloom_Dirt.png".

So feel free to grab both "Shaders/ArcaneBloom.fx" and "Textures/ArcaneBloom_Dirt.png" from my repo.

So, it was you who made the Magic Bloom. I used it a lot when I played Dark Souls 3. Thanks a lot, man. I am always down for new bloom shaders ^^

Wicked Sick wrote: So, it was you who made the Magic Bloom. I used it a lot when I played Dark Souls 3. Thanks a lot, man. I am always down for new bloom shaders ^^

I'm glad you enjoyed it, hopefully you'll find this version to be even better.

I dont have time for test this bloom shader but have depth buffer ?

Looks amazing, keep doing what you do!

Cool, my dude
Small tip: crosire recently added UI categories, might help grouping the UI uniforms that are toggled by a preprocessor command neatly together. Just addto your UI params and ReShade will automatically group them.

Marty McFly wrote: Cool, my dude
Small tip: crosire recently added UI categories, might help grouping the UI uniforms that are toggled by a preprocessor command neatly together. Just add

ui_category = "Foo";

to your UI params and ReShade will automatically group them.

Thanks, my dude

Yeah I know, I ended up not using them because I focused on just adding features and polishing code, I'll probably add them later tonight.

Chavolatra wrote: I dont have time for test this bloom shader but have depth buffer ?

No, but it could be very easy to make a quick add-on shader that uses any one of the bloom textures available through the "ArcaneBloom.fxh" header, so you could have some nice fog.

Unless maybe you mean having the bloom intensity increase with object distance, which I could also look into implementing.

luluco250 wrote:

Chavolatra wrote: I dont have time for test this bloom shader but have depth buffer ?

No, but it could be very easy to make a quick add-on shader that uses any one of the bloom textures available through the "ArcaneBloom.fxh" header, so you could have some nice fog.

Unless maybe you mean having the bloom intensity increase with object distance, which I could also look into implementing.

i think is good ideia and mask of colors for avoid certain colors. example use bloom only yellow and another for blue,

Chavolatra wrote:

luluco250 wrote:

Chavolatra wrote: I dont have time for test this bloom shader but have depth buffer ?

No, but it could be very easy to make a quick add-on shader that uses any one of the bloom textures available through the "ArcaneBloom.fxh" header, so you could have some nice fog.

Unless maybe you mean having the bloom intensity increase with object distance, which I could also look into implementing.

i think is good ideia and mask of colors for avoid certain colors. example use bloom only yellow and another for blue,

Hm, the mask thing in theory would be easy to implement, just remove the unwanted colors from the brightpass texture. Problem is I have no idea where to start to do THAT. Maybe try lerping out the colors using some sort of step() or smoothstep()? I'd have to check it out carefully, I'll look into it tomorrow.

I recorded a video showing Arcane Bloom improving the atmosphere in my little voxel world. Once again, thank you very much for your wonderful work!

Is there a way to layer this effect? It seems to render under MXAO and it looks a little weird.

Move it in the list of shaders in the reshade GUI below mxao, using drag/drop.

Yeah, do what OtisInf said, bloom should come after all depth-based effects or anything that changes the look of objects rather than the scene itself.

Now whether to put it before or after post processing like vignette, curves, coloring etc is up to personal taste, I pref to put it before.

Been having alot of fun, takes while to setup though.