Links and Guide to Custom Shader for Pete's OpenGL2 PLugin First of all, what are Shaders?

Well for a simplified term, its a graphics hardware feature that enables more complex special effects to be implemented into games by developers, a succesor to the old Hardware Transform and Lighting that were present during the days of Direct X 7 GeForce 2 series and Radeon 7xxx series. But this is OpenGL you say, well lets just say that OpenGL also use the similar feature with some minor differences. For a more technical terms regarding shaders, you may wanna look at this or this In this case for Pete's OpenGL2 graphics plugin, the shaders acts as a "post filter" effect wherein it mostly modifies the stuff you see on screen after its already rendered by the PlayStation itself (such as sprites and polygons). That means you can't modify individual effects since you would have to modify the game itself. Note before using the shaders: These custom shaders, depending on its function, requires a DirectX 9 Fragment(Pixel) and Vertex Shader 2.0 capable card mostly found on newer graphics cards. Make sure they have the recent drivers for them to support newer shader features/extensions needed for ARB/GLSLANG.(Click ATi or NVIDIA for driver updates for Windows XP) For AMD ATi Radeon 9500 cards and above For NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 and above

other card manufacturers might also be supported provided that they can do DirectX 9 Shader Model 2.0, but this is not guaranteed.Also, Pete noted that its better if your card has at least 8 rendering pipelines to get a good speed in higher settings, although it will still work with cards with lesser pipelines. Cards such as the GeForce FX 5200 and 5600 may suffer in terms of performance when shaders are used. At least a GeForce FX 5900 series/ GeForce 6/7 series or Radeon 9600XT and above/Radeon X and X1K series is recommended to play most options enabled as well as shader level/internal X and Y resolution set at very high. If your not sure if your card support shaders, you may wanna check kenmasters' thread regarding checking OpenGL shader capabilities of your card (afaik, if you were able to test OpenGL 1.4/1.5/2.0 tests then your fine). Note:GeForce FX cards might be inferior to their Radeon Counterparts in terms of performance though, as they are weak in high level shaders. Also integrated DX9 cards such as the Radeon X300 and GeForce 6100 and above may also support the shaders but it may give poor performance. LINKS

Most of the custom shader links are available at Pete's Website along with Guest's Shader Collection Guest's Shader Collection: Contains many custom shader files including both Cartoon Shader and StoryBook Shaders, included is a readme on what the shaders or what effect they produce. Guest's Shader Pack 2.2+ can be downloaded in his site here. ShadX's Natural Vision Shader (Modded by SimoneT): This one is originally done by ShadX and was modded by SimonT for better speed.The shader intensifies colors/makes them more vibrant than normal as well as gives an anti-aliased look. This custom shader is better suited for cards which support 4096x4096 rendering resolutions (Very high X/Y internal resolution) such as GeForce FX cards and above and Radeon X1300 and above. (although higher end cards is recommended for more consistent speed)

SimoneT's Bump Map Shader: as stated, produces a nice bump effect/glass look on PlayStation games. Note that in some situations it will look weird and some it will look awesome depending on the game. Steps in using the custom shaders: 1.After downloading the shaders, unpack or unzip them if they are compressed, and place them on the Shaders folder in ePSXe (or any other folder) 2. Start Pete's OpenGL2 configuration, check the Shader effect option and select click the button provided in the pic. Point to the location on where you placed the shaders(the unziped/unpacked ones) .Note that some shader such as the stroybook shader needs an additional file that must be placed along with the main shader files.

3. After selecting the location, select if the shader is in GLSlang format(gpuPeteOGL2.vp and gpuPeteOGL2.fp) or in ARB format(gpuPeteOGL2.slv and gpuPeteOGL2.slf)

4. Select the shader intensity level, the intensity level will depend on the shader, example having a Level 4 (Max) level for cartoon shader will give a thicker black boders on polygons while lesser levels is thinner.

5. After setting up the other options such as resolution and filters, click OK and your good to go. If you folks have any other additional info, corrections and shader links please Inform me through PM's or posts . SAMPLES These screenshots are taken on my PC Specs: AMD AthlonXP 2500+ @ 1.95Ghz 1024MB DDR400 Ram nVidia GeForce 6600GT 128MB GDDR3 Omega Boost ShadX's Natural Vision Shader (modded by SimoneT)