Post-Processing FX

🔥 The most robust, easiest and efficient post-processing solution available for GameMaker. All in a 2 MB package!

😍 Post-Processing FX is a project that aims to make your game look beautiful, with 50+ ready-made customizable effects.

✅ With as little friction or setup as possible. It's modular, user friendly, and very easy to extend and build upon.

Unlike all other similar ones, with PPFX, you have HDR mode and you can use all effects at the same time! (Saves GPU/CPU usage if the effect is not in use!)

VERSION 3.1 IS NOW AVAILABLE (with HDR support)!

Documentation.

DEMO: Click here to open.

• Works great with 2D Pixel-Art and HD games;
• 3D is also supported;
• Extreme easy to use and highly customizable, whether you're new to GML, or an experienced developer. You can start just creating the system with a function, create a profile with the effects and then use the drawing function.
  
• Currently, there are 51 high quality effects, which are:
  • Bloom;
    • The Bloom effect creates fringes of light extending from the borders of bright areas in an image. This creates the illusion of extremely bright light overwhelming the screen. The Bloom effect also has a Lens Dirt feature, which you can use to apply a full-screen layer of smudges or dust to diffract the Bloom effect.
    • HDR compatible;
    • Ultra high performance (even in mobile and HTML5), CPU + GPU to render;
    • Lens dirt;
  • VHS;
    • VHS effect imitating old TVs from VHS tapes. It is fully customizable.
  • Slow Motion;
    • Effect that mimics slow motion or when drunk.
  • HQ4x;
    • Pixel-art upscaling shader, which aims to try to make the pixel-art in HD.
  • Depth Of Field;
    • Is an effect that describes the extent to which objects that are more or less close to the plane of focus appear to be sharp. This effect is given by an optical phenomenon called circles of confusion, which progressively increase as objects move away from the plane of focus;
    • Circular or shaped (with custom sides);
    • Works for both 2D and 3D.
  • Shockwaves;
    • Screen distortions made simple;
    • Supports spectral LUTs;
    • Curves for size and alpha control;
    • Uses normal maps (6 built-in types included);
  • Sunshafts (Godrays/Volumetric light);
    • Simulates the radial light scattering that arises when a very bright light source is partly obscured;
  • ACES Tone Mapping;
    • Tonemapping is the process of remapping the HDR values of an image to a new range of values. Its most common purpose is to make an image with a low dynamic range appear to have a higher range.
    • Academy Color Encoding System;
    • Filmic mode (for a more cinematic look);
  • Chromatic Aberration;
    • It mimics the color distortion that a real-world camera produces when its lens fails to join all colors to the same point;
    • Spectral/prisma LUT is changeable!
      
    • Blur for smooth colors!
  • Motion Blur;
    • Simulates the blur that occurs in an image when a real-world camera films objects moving faster than the camera’s exposure time.
    • Ready example of usage;
    • Contains a central mask!
      
    • Includes a special render texture that is not affected by blur;
  • FXAA v3;
    • Fast Approximate Anti-Aliasing is a screen-space anti-aliasing algorithm created by Timothy Lottes at Nvidia.
  • Panorama Distortion;
    • The same effect the FNAF game uses!
    • Works both horizontally and vertically;
  • Gaussian Blur;
    • Blur the image with this effect!
    • This one has a slimmer fit and a round mask!
  • Kawase Blur;
    • Extreme high performance blur, even on Mobile!
    • It also has a round mask;
  • White Balance;
    • White balance is used to adjust colors to match the color of the light source so that white objects appear white;
  • Glitch;
    • Image and colors distortion/interference to imitate a problem with the video signal; Useful for horror games!
  • Shake;
    • Screen shake simulation; Useful for explosions and strong ground collisions.
    • Individually controlled speeds allow the shake to be just horizontal, vertical or both!
  • Speed Lines;
    • Manga/Anime speed lines, useful for visual novel and racing games;
    • Contains a central mask!
  • LUT Cube;
    • Day & Night Cycle example included!
    • Use your own edited texture in other editing software such as Photoshop;
    • Many LUT sprites included;
  • Palette Swap;
    • Useful for retro/arcade games. Change the color of all pixels using a palette, based on luminosity;
    • Includes Game Boy and Grayscale palettes;
    • Supports color quantization;
  • Cinema Bars;
    • Add a cool more cinematic touch to the game;
    • Both horizontal and vertical;
  • Displacement Maps;
    • Used for water, underwater, rain, drips and many others;
    • Examples included;
    • Uses normal map textures;
  • Vignette;
    • Vignetting is the term for the darkening and/or desaturating towards the edges of an image compared to the center. You can use vignetting to draw focus to the center of an image;
  • Radial Blur;
    • Blurred zoom effect to give the impression of speed;
      
  • Scanlines;
    • Draw horizontal lines over the screen;
    • Contains a central mask!
  • Texture Overlay;
    • Useful for blood on screen, VHS effect and others;
    • Bonus feature: Draw texture on top or bottom;
  • Border;
    • Hide the outside of UVs with a smooth black border, useful for using along with VHS and Lens Distortion effects.
  • Dithering;
    • Removes color banding artifacts in gradients, usually seen in sky boxes due to color quantization.
    • Bayer Matrix 16x16, 8x8, 4x4 and 2x2;
    • 3 types of dithering modes!
    • Use matrix position of camera or world;
  • Exposure;
    • Adjusts the overall exposure of the screen.
      
  • Brightness;
    • The amount of white color mixed with a hue;
  • Contrast;
    • The overall range of tonal values;
      
  • Saturation;
    • Relative bandwidth of the visible output from a light source;
    • Used for "grayscale" effect;
  • Hue Shift;
    • Shift the hue of all colors.
    • HSV (hue, saturation and value) colors;
  • Color Blindness correction:
    • Protanopia, Deutanopia and Tritanopia;
      
  • Colorize:
    • Preserve the white colors and change only the hue;
  • Color Tint;
    • Mix game screen color with some other color;
  • Invert Colors;
    • White is black and black is white;
  • Channels;
    • Control each color channel individually;
  • Lens Distortion;
    • Useful for simulating CRT TV tube distortion or speed;
    • Barrel and Pincushion distortion;
  • Swirl Distortion;
    • Radial distortion effect, useful for black hole effects and so on;
  • Sine Wave;
    • Wave effect (both horizontal and vertical);
  • Noise Grain;
    • Simulates the random optical texture of photographic film, usually caused by small particles being present on the physical film;
    • It is possible to show only white noise (cool for CRT effect);
    • Uses custom texture;
  • Posterization;
    • Perfect for retro/SNES/arcade games. Decreases the amount of color displayed on the screen;
  • Pixelize;
    • A retro resolution effect, creates pseudo pixelart;
  • Fade;
    • Simple color overlay, fade the entire screen in one color;
  • NES Fade (Famicom 8-bit, 1983);
    • Perfect simulation of the NES transition.
    • Change amount and levels (color amount);
      
  • Rotation;
    • Rotate the screen, useful for angular shake;
  • Zoom;
    • Zoom in the screen, all done in shader, no cameras for that! useful for cutscenes.
  • Lift, Gamma and Gain;
    • This effect allows you to perform three-way color grading.
    • Lift controls the dark tones;
    • Gamma controls the mid-range tones with a power function;
    • Gain is used to increase the signal and make highlights brighter;
  • Shadows, Midtones and Highlight;
    • This effect separately controls the shadows, midtones, and highlights of the render. Unlike Lift, Gamma, Gain, you can use this effect to precisely define the tonal range for shadows, midtones, and highlights;
  • Mist;
    • A fog effect to give a gloomy look, which can be used in forests, imitate fire, and among others;
    • It is possible to be affected by light, giving a sensation of volumetric light. Useful for dark forests and horror games.

• Profiles;
  • A collection of effects to use;
  • Change the mood of your game globally in real time! Useful for games where there are several different environments/rooms;
  • Create and load as many as you like;
• Layers;
  • Apply the effects in multiple room layers, it can be individual or in a range too!
  • Literally just write ppfx_layer_apply(...) in Create Event!
  • Both room-based and camera-based sizes;
  • There is an example showing this;
    
• Areas;
  • Draw a normal sprite, with the effects inside it! Use the sprite as a mask. Useful for glass UI, game logo, and many others!
• Post-Processing FX can also be applied to the GUI;
  • There is an example showing this;
    
• The PPFX is modular. Everything works individually and at the same time together!
• All effects can work together or individually!
• Fast shader compilation;
• Apply the effects in your game in less than 10 minutes! (for real);

• Cross-Platform;
  • Windows, Mac, Ubuntu, Android, iOS, HTML5, OperaGX, UWP, Playstation 4, Playstation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X | S and Nintendo Switch.
• GameMaker version;
• Works on 2D and 3D games;
• Uses GLSL ES;
• Works on: x64 and x86 runner. With YYC and VM;
• Split-screen compatible;
• Compatible with Bulb lighting system and Scribble, by Juju;
• Compatible with other external effects;
• Feather compatible.

• Includes 15 usage examples;
• Basic UI system (belongs to the example only);
• Includes a camera object (belongs to the example only);
  • Target object;
  • Horizontal and vertical margin to start moving;
  • Smooth movements;
  • Zoom.
• All example codes are commented to understand how each part works. All the code is super organized and well written;
• Dedicated Discord server for support;
• LUT Pack (18 images);
• Source project ready-to-use.
• Super lightweight package! Only 2MB (.yymps) - even less, if you remove things you don't need from the package!
• Free updates forever!

• HDR (High Dynamic Range) support; (ADDED)
  
• Effects that will be added in future updates (no order):
  • SSAO (Screen Space Ambient Occlusion);
    
  • Fish-eye distortion;
  • VHS (retro TV effect); (ADDED)
  • Infrared;
  • Anamorphic Flares;
  • HQ4x; (ADDED)
  • Slow Motion (Drunk Effect); (ADDED)
  • Color Curves (YRGB and HHSL)
  • 1D LUT
  • .Cube LUT support

• Q: Is it difficult to import into an existing project?
• A: No, there are several examples in the project showing how simple this is to do. All you need to do is import the .yymps file into your game and use the appropriate functions to apply the effect to the screen.
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• Q: What is the shader performance?
• A: All effects are super lightweight (includes Bloom), run smoothly on Android and on weak computers (tested in an onboard 128 MB VRAM GPU).
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• Q: How I learn to implement in my game?
• A: There is a manual with detailed information that will help you to implement it quickly. If you have questions, send a message on Discord.

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