Mudlord's Generic HLSL Shader Patch

[mudlord]

Okay, here's a generic patcher to add HLSL support to any D3D9 based app.

Theoretically.

This is tested to work with Rice Video and BSNES. Copy protected apps are not supported. Same goes for packed targets.

Any testing and feedback is appreciated.

EDIT: Update 1 posted.
EDIT2: Major update

http://vba-m.ngemu.com/personalpage/...ds/shaders.rar

[wadibahi]

G00d work

[@ruantec]

Originally Posted by wadibahi

G00d work

it´s indeed a great tool

i personally love to see great tools with a great GUI.... and this tool has definitely both!

[Titus03]

Originally Posted by @ruantec-Man

it´s indeed a great tool

i personally love to see great tools with a great GUI.... and this tool has definitely both!

I agree with you. GUI is great.

Just tried testing it with other D3D9 based programs. Dunno if they all were copy protected I tried, but it complained "nothing patched!". Only program it patched was NFSU, but shaders did no effect to it. I followed all the instructions and I'm running it with a card capable of pixel shaders.

Testing is pending.

[mudlord]

Hmmm, well copy protected games are encrypted to protect against modification. A good program to detect copy protections for games is Protection ID.

As for your NFSU game, are you running a "unpatched" game? Though it depends on how the release group reversed and unpacked the SafeDisc protection on that game...

As for supported apps:
* All BSNES versions
* All Rice Video DX9 compiles
* Colin McRae Rally 2005 1.1 (Starforce unwrapped)
* Just Cause (RELOADED)

As for unsupported apps:
* F.E.A.R (RELOADED) - memory writing error
* Direct64 - loads imports differently to other DX9 plugins

[Rebel_X]

hey! nice program! I have suggestion here if you don't mind

Why don't you make the program run in the background and intercept all D3D9 calls (just like 3D Analyzer) and make changes with Shaders effects to actual running game or emulator (post processing), this is gonna be great, since it can work for larger set of applications or even windows itself (Am I going to far with my imagination!!) and It's gonna be nice to add the filters from Pete OGL2 plugin and others and switch between them by certain key combination!

I am telling you it's gonna ROCK! it's GENUINE idea, there is no other program on the net (AFAIK) can do that, and you might make some money from it if you have PayPal and make it commercial! think about it..

But to be honest! I don't know if this is gonna work since all the drawing using DirectX applications is:

lock video hardware
draw stuff on back buffer
unlock video hardware
show stuff on screen (flip back buffer with front buffer)

Sorry I am not that much in DirectX programming, but I think it's close (similar) enough!

[mudlord]

and It's gonna be nice to add the filters from Pete OGL2 plugin and others

That would require hooking OpenGL too...

Why don't you make the program run in the background and intercept all D3D9 calls (just like 3D Analyzer) and make changes with Shaders effects to actual running game or emulator (post processing)

Thats exactly how the patch works. It forces the program to load d4rk.dll to intercept all calls to D3D9.DLL, which is the main DLL for Direct3D9. It then interferes with how the rendering is done so that it adds a additional render pass to add shaders. However, making changes while its running is a bit more complicated. I know there is one app for OpenGL things that does exactly what you describe. And its open source too.

this is gonna be great, since it can work for larger set of applications or even windows itself

If there is a decent way to hook D3D8 apps and add assembler shaders to that, then thats D3D8/9 covered. Your idea of messing with Windows though is a whole different ball game :P.

lock video hardware
draw stuff on back buffer
unlock video hardware
show stuff on screen (flip back buffer with front buffer)

More like:

Lock render surface
Draw
Unlock render surface
show stuff

[fried_egg]

post some more pics!

[mudlord]

If people interested....I might :/

[Rebel_X]

I am..

But you didn't answer mah question clearly (I think I didn't explain it in a good way)

My question is, instead of patching the program, why don't you make your program resident in memory and systray. and intercept the calls to d3d9 calls when it happems (just like trigger) or even add a white list to your program that when those applications are running do patching in (RAM) memory instead of patching EXE files.. (similar to what Game Cheater programs do about hacking memory addresses).. without copying any dll to game directory or whatteva...

My second question is, if I copied shader effects from pete OGL2 plugin and renamed them to *.fx file, is it gonna work or not, is it written in HLSL 1, 2, 3 or 4

[mudlord]

My question is, instead of patching the program, why don't you make your program resident in memory and systray. and intercept the calls to d3d9 calls when it happems (just like trigger) or even add a white list to your program that when those applications are running do patching in (RAM) memory instead of patching EXE files.. (similar to what Game Cheater programs do about hacking memory addresses).. without copying any dll to game directory or whatteva...

Ah, now I know exactly what your talking about. So, your asking about code injection? Well, it could be something I can look into....

My second question is, if I copied shader effects from pete OGL2 plugin and renamed them to *.fx file, is it gonna work or not, is it written in HLSL 1, 2, 3 or 4

It won't work. HLSL shaders are entirely different to GLSL shaders.

[Rebel_X]

any ideas how to convert them since I am interested in cartoon shader effects to run it on PC games..


Edit
second thing if you could do what my suggestion say "above" I think it's gonna increase the compatibility even if using SecuRom safedisc or packed exes..
although, I don't know if it's possible to modify any memory address if it was allocated in protected mode :/

[mudlord]

any ideas how to convert them since I am interested in cartoon shader effects to run it on PC games..

There is nothing stopping interested people in learning HLSL syntax to port Guest's shaders to D3D's HLSL shader language. Though, I do have a basic shader for cel shading.

second thing if you could do what my suggestion say "above" I think it's gonna increase the compatibility even if using SecuRom safedisc or packed exes..
although, I don't know if it's possible to modify any memory address if it was allocated in protected mode :/

I'm afraid I can't discuss any further about it, as since this forum is hosted in the USA, the DMCA is in effect there, and RE'ing of protections, even if for things like this, is possibly illegal.

[Rebel_X]

Originally Posted by mudlord

I'm afraid I can't discuss any further about it, as since this forum is hosted in the USA, the DMCA is in effect there, and RE'ing of protections, even if for things like this, is possibly illegal.

Man, we are not talking about Piracy or anything, you could say its for Educational purposes only..
Edit: What I am saying increase the chance of the program to run with those applications..

But anyhoo, don't stop to improve this little program, there is a lot of things can be done, don't abandon this project please

[fried_egg]

wow that music is obnoxious mudlord!

[TheCloudOfSmoke]

Originally Posted by fried_egg

wow that music is obnoxious mudlord!

It looks and sounds like a keygen. j/k

[Rebel_X]

Originally Posted by TheCloudOfSmoke

It looks and sounds like a keygen. j/k

I always liked Commodore 64 MOD music, they are awesome..

There was a site called KeyGenMusic.net But I don't know it's down since the first of this month.. Lucky me, I downloaded the Music Pack for all keygens, countless hours of Awesome music that blow my mind..

[mudlord]

It looks and sounds like a keygen. j/k

Well, that is exactly what the point is.

It is meant to be like a crack.

There was a site called KeyGenMusic.net But I don't know it's down since the first of this month.. Lucky me, I downloaded the Music Pack for all keygens, countless hours of Awesome music that blow my mind..

I prefer Modland

[Rebel_X]

Well, I wonder the RAR file less than 3MB, but the Music Pack from KeyGenMusic (RAR) till this January contains more than 1000 mods, and over 28MB.. from all KeyGen Crews from A-Z..


PS: I wonder why downloading AllMods file takes ages, 2KB/S, although I tried downloading something else it's over 100kb/s ... shoot..

Edit: Damn, it's just huge text file contains all music files and directory structures..
And it says also the ModLand server is slow for downloading and it's just mainly for uploading, and suggests to use mirrors.. thats why..

[mudlord]

Damn, it's just huge text file contains all music files and directory structures..
And it says also the ModLand server is slow for downloading and it's just mainly for uploading, and suggests to use mirrors.. thats why..

Yes, the Modland server has around 70GB or more worth of public domain music.....