Improves cross-platform compatibility of Shaders written for StreamFX through the use of preprocessing to make things a bit more compatible. While we don't perform any proper parsing, this will be able to prevent basic issues.
Originally intended to be an experiment with no future, it turned out to be very popular with streamers that move a lot. In the end it was popular enough that NVIDIA added their own variant to their Broadcast software, which works decently enough. Unfortunately my wrapper code around the library was written very poorly, so it didn't take long for it to break out of nowhere.
'Perspective' and 'Orthographic' work great if you know what the parameters were to generate the exact object position, but what if you don't know them? That is where 'Corner Pin' comes in! With it you can specify the exact location of every corner down to the micro-pixel, instead of fiddling with parameters.
Fixes#565
As none of the known Upscaling algorithms handle Alpha, we need to manually restore and interpolate it properly. While this technically reduces visual quality slightly, the chances of this being noticed are slim to none considering that Upscaling is already a questionable solution to quality. Linear was picked here as it produces the best overall result for scaling, keeping gradients mostly in one piece. Mostly.
Fixes#646
As the Alpha channel is completely ignored and possibly destroyed by denoising algorithms, we should restore the Alpha channel manually. Linear interpolation was chosen here as it will behave like Point if the size matches, and properly interpolate if the size doesn't match.
Fixes: #646
The previous name was too strict on what could be put into the effect, and would result in additional clutter in the Filter menu when we eventually decide to support other Upscaling methods than Super-Resolution networks.
Grouping properties by what they do improves the user experience as the user does not have to guess at what belongs to which part of the effect. Additionally toggleable groups automatically disable all child elements, so the user is not confused by them still being active.
Michael Fabian 'Xaymar' Dirks