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Beautify is a full-screen image processing effect that improves the image quality in real time producing incredibly crisp and vivid scenes.
Check out the comparison image below (a sample capture from Unity courtyard demo scene). White rectangles show areas affected by Beautify - compare the bottom one, the stairs, look how Beautify is capable to restore detail:
Beautify uses smart algorithms in a single pass, resulting in a very fast image effect, and can be used in mobile:
- Improves local pixel contrast, enhancing visual features and producing sharp images.
- Reduces or completely removes banding in gradients, usually seen in sky boxes due to color quantization.
- Adjusts pixel saturation, boosting pixel color without oversaturating the image.
- Implements several heuristics to reduce or remove any artifacts over edges or thin objects, like wires.
Beautify is very easy to use, just add the image effect to your camera, choose a preset and that’s all.
Works with forward and deferred rendering paths as well as linear and gamma color spaces.
Check out the video and screenshots below for a few examples of what Beautify can do:
A dew demo scenes are included to demonstrate the different presets and their effects. This is what a simple Unity terrain and the standard skybox in the scene looks like with Beautify:
Thanks to Beautify, the mountains on the right look sharp, with better perceptual resolution and the sky is smooth and vivid (no banding). This same example works on mobile with almost no performance impact.
In addition to its unique image enhancement algorithm, Beautify also includes the following effects:
• High quality and performant Bloom with threshold, intensity and fine-tuning customization options + Anamorphic Flares!
• Lens Dirt with angle to light source or brightness based, intensity controls and customizable dirt texture (includes two dirt textures).
• Genuine and GPU based Sun Flares with lot of customization options.
• Depth of Field + Bokeh with advanced options like transparency and exclusion layers…
• Vignetting - colored vignetting with intensity+radius control.
• Night & Thermal Vision with nice effects like distortion, GPU noise and scan lines.
• Sepia classic effect.
• Outline - add colored borders around objects.
• Frame option - add a subtle colored frame around the image.
• ACES tonemap operator - no need to add an additional tone mapper - ACES included and processed in the correct stage along the rest of effects!
• Eye Adaptation and Purnkinje Shift - simulates retina reaction to quick changes in rumination or color blindness under low light conditions.
Grab Beautify now and boost your game visuals with a single click. Thanks!
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