Old School Pixel Fx

About
Old School Pixel FX is the ultimate tool to apply any old school or retro pixel fx on your project. Suitable for PRO Windows/Linux/Mac/Web builds. Mobile PRO is untested but suspected to work as well.

Ideal for your classic point & click adventure games as well as psuedo classic system simulators like the atari, nes and others.

Important Fix for Unity 5 (Personal & Pro!)
Simple fix to make it work in Unity 5 (even in Unity Personal Edition WEB&PC (NON-PRO) !):
- Remove old default "Image Effects" folder (if you do not use it for other fx other than Old School Pixel Fx!!!!)
- Import the default pacakge "Effects" (Assets->Import Package->Effects)
- Add "import UnityStandardAssets.ImageEffects;" as a top line to OldSchoolPixel.js
- Should all be working.

Asset store
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/23703

Features

• Choose any resolution for your game that is lower than the resolution of the viewport.
• Apply ANY image to be used as colormap. Old School Pixel FX will automatically create a new color map for you.
• Maximum of 512 colors.
• Attached 23 colormaps from: https://code.google.com/p/grafx2/wiki/PaletteRepository
• Can be used in in both orthographic and perspective.
• Works in VertexLit, Forward and Deferred Rendering.
• Runtime colormap switch is possible.

Cost
Normally: 5 Dollar. The first week: 2 dollar!

Sample Sceenshots:








Original scene:

 

Added the option to disable the either the resolution or the colormap FX on runtime.

 

Online now for only 2$:
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/23703

 

Looks good. How does it perform? Does it run on mobile?

 

The total render time for All PostFX (that includes the built-in Unity components as well) with the profiler on my test laptop is 0.7 ms on the highest quality and 0.1 ms on the lowest quality for the demo scene.

I haven't been able to try this on mobile since I don't have a mobile PRO license. However it is expected to work fine.

 

Hey there!

Was excited to try this out with Unity 5, but get this error when I import the package:

Assets/OldSchoolPixelFX/Standard Assets/Image Effects (Pro Only)/OldSchoolPixelFX.js(6,39): BCE0018: The name 'PostEffectsBase' does not denote a valid type ('not found'). Did you mean 'UnityStandardAssets.ImageEffects.PostEffectsBase'?

Will there be an update at all, or any advice?

Thanks!

QS =D

 

There most certainly will! I just have to wait a few more days until I can buy the 4 => 5 upgrade since I do not have enough funds to buy it this moment.

But as a tip: Try to change 'PostEffectBase' in OldSchoolFixelFX.js by 'UnityStandardAssets.ImageEffects.PostEffectBase' and it might work just like that.

 

As soon as Unity 5 is supported, this is a must-buy for me.

 

Simple fix to make it work in Unity 5 (even in Unity Personal Edition WEB/PC (NON-PRO) !):
- Remove old default "Image Effects" folder (if you do not use it for other fx other than Old School Pixel Fx!!!!)
- Import the default pacakge "Effects" (Assets->Import Package->Effects)
- Add "import UnityStandardAssets.ImageEffects;" as a top line to OldSchoolPixel.js
- Should all be working.

 

Nice. After lunch purchase, then.

 

We use Unity 5 for last features like PBR , not to play dowgraded graphics

 

You are free of course to use and create with Unity whatever you want. But if you ever need to have a retro effect, you know where to get it .

 

This fixed things, thanks!

I've spent the afternoon going back in time! Also: Playing with this package

Cheers! It's great fun!

QS =D

 

Hello,

I got this warning:

"The image effect Main Camera (OldSchoolPixelFX) has been disabled as it's not supported on the current platform."

What am i doing wrong?

Thanks.

 

What version of Unity are you using?

 

version 5, my project is a Android project.

 

I don't think that Android default supports image effects at all if you don't have Android PRO.
Can't seem to find that right now.

Edit: Correction it seems that android doesn't supports 3D textures. I will look into this.

Edit 2: Found the exact issue. I will make an Android & IOS friendly version and add this to the package.

 

I am glad to announce that I've created a new and improved version of the Old School Pixel FX that is now fully tested on Android as well with hardly any impact on the performance.

Small deviations in the color due to the texture conversion have also been removed now resulting in a prefect color match for your carefully picked palettes.

The changes will be submitted to the asset store tomorrow morning.

Do note that that is absolutely the last month you can get this package for the $2 it costs now. By the end of April it WILL become $5.

 

I already buy it. Do i just need to download it again? I will test it when i get home.

Thank you very much.

 

As soon as the update is available you can hit "Update" in the In-Unity assetstore since you already bought it. Do note that due to Unity's quality check it can take up to a week until the asset is accepted! So please be patient until it is accepted. I will post a message here when it is ready.

 

Sorry man i can't figure out how to set this up. I dont have Unity 4 Pro but I have Unity 5. Will it make a difference what version I use.
Thanks

 

It does not make a difference after the update that I send to Unity at the beginning of the week. You can wait until the update is accepted (I expect the ending of this week or the beginning of next week) and it should work perfectly right away.

If you want to start with it now you have to remove any remaining "~/Standard Assets/Image Effect/" folders other than the one in the folder "OldSchoolPixelFx". Then import Effects (Assets->Import Package->Effects). Open the file OldSchoolPixelFx.js and add "import UnityStandardAssets.ImageEffects;" as a top line. It should be working now.

If not please tell me what step you get stuck.

 

Looks like a sick retro filter! Would be nice to see a video of it being used. Pixel-y filters can lose a lot of their quality/consistency when animated.

 

Thanks! I will make a video later on today and post it here.

Edit: Something came in between. Will fix ASAP.

 

Instead of a video I have a small demo scene here: http://peculiardeveloper.com/u3d/OldSchoolPixelFX/

Warning: Music at start!

Enjoy!

 

The latest version has been updated on the Asset store:

- Exact colormap correction
- Unity 4 & 5 Compatibility
- Mobile support (Unity 4 android Pro, Unity 5)
- Grayscale supression

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/23703

 

Is there a way to change the downscale at runtime? I'm trying to use this on mobile and need it to adapt to different resolutions, but I am having difficulties doing this. What I have in the editor seems to override any changes I make. I really want to make sure what I set the downscale to divides cleanly by the screen resolution of the device.

Also, could you possibly add a setting to cleanly downscale by DPI?

 

Can you copy paste the code you have used. I have no problem changing the resolution from an external script by simply changing osp.width and osp.height (osp = OldSchoolPixelFXMobile reference).

 

Thanks for the response. I was just fiddling with the source to try to make that happen with no luck. I'll try it with an external script using osp. If that doesn't work as expected I'll let you know.

 

I just bought this too and it looks great.
But is there any way of doing any kind of dithering for color transitions?
I would like to have bayer dithering in my game.

 

I will look into this and add the most suited form of dithering.

 

There we go, new dithering modes based on ordered dithering. Allows the use of your own dithering maps as well:

 

whenever i import OldSchoolPixelFX, i get this error

Assets/OldSchoolPixelFX/Standard Assets/Image Effects (Pro Only)/OldSchoolPixelFX.js(8,39): BCE0018: The name 'PostEffectsBase' does not denote a valid type ('not found').

note I am using 5.1

 

Have you imported the image effects asset from assets/import package...?

 

Yes, you need to import the Standard Unity Package named "Effect".

 

Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but I have the Demo scene open and I can't seem to figure out how to use dithering. I'd really appreciate if Gobla could point the way Thanks in advance!

 

Omg. My sincere apologies. I did upload the package but never submitted (finalized) it in the web form...

I submitted it now and it should be in the update in a few days...

Again my sincere apologies.

 

No worries! Thanks for the quick reply and submitting the updated package. I look forward to checking it out!

 

For those that want to import the package on runtime it could occur that settings are not properly applied. I've made a fix that handles this and is submitted with the next package. For now you can do the following:


In "OldSchoolPixelFX.js", "OldSchoolPixelFXDither.js", "OldSchoolPixelFXMobile.js" and/or "OldSchoolPixelFXDitherMobile.js" change the following:

Add:

Code (JavaScript):

1. public var backupTexture : Texture2D;

Below:

Code (JavaScript):

1. public var basedOnTempTex : String = "";

=========================================

In the function:

Code (JavaScript):

1. public function Convert (temp2DTex : Texture2D, path : String) {

Add:

Code (JavaScript):

1. backupTexture = temp2DTex;

Below:

Code (JavaScript):

1. converted3DLut2D.Apply ();

=========================================

Finally, add the following function to the code:

Code (JavaScript):

1.     function Awake() {
2.         if (converted3DLut2D == null && backupTexture != null) {
3.             Convert(backupTexture,basedOnTempTex);
4.         }
5.     }

Enjoy!

 

I have made some quick demonstrations using the pixel fx shader.
Some videos:

 

This asset looks so cool, shame it's been depreciated!

 

I hate coming across cool assets that get deprecated. Sure this is old but it looks good. Wish more developers would just open source or make the assets available for free.