PRISM.Sharpen - A Photographic Sharpening Effect for Unity

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Asset Store Link: https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#!/content/101643
Current Status: LIVE!

Current Version: 1.03

PRISM.Sharpen uses a modern photography-based algorithm to increase the perceptual resolution of textures in your game.

Used in PRISM since 2.0, the core of PRISM.Sharpen separates the most popular effect of the PRISM package into a standalone, and adds new “Photographic” style sharpening options.

If you’ve ever had someone comment on your game’s textures looking ‘low res’, or are generally unhappy with how blurry your textures are, PRISM.Sharpen is the solution.

  • High Performance
  • Simple to use
  • Suitable for mobile & VR
  • Production-Ready
  • Works by default in HDR

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Cool, but could ellaborate on what’s “photographic” about it?

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Sure! It’s basically described as that for a few reasons,

  • It’s intended to produce “Photographic” results, ie. nice and sharp, with no game engine specific artifacts visible (like bilinear filtering/AA blur)
  • The “Photographic” sharpen type option uses a specific algorithm that is typical in many photo-editing programs but not very common in games.
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PRISM.Sharpen has been resubmitted to the asset store - first one got declined for not having a demo scene, which is a new thing to me - but have now included a nice small bloat-free demo scene that shows off the sharpening capabilities nicely, and resubmitted. Heres to hoping it won’t take as long!

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PRISM.Sharpen is now LIVE on the Asset Store!

Get the best sharpening effect for Unity today: http://u3d.as/Y7i

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We would like to buy it, but Unity 2017 is minimal required version? Cannot use in 5.6 ?

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PRISM.Sharpen works perfectly in 5.6 - that’s what I’m using for production myself actually :slight_smile:

I may have to re-upload using 5.6 though… I forget how the asset store works these days

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Got a great update coming up with a feature that anyone who uses grass and deferred rendering with PRISM.Sharpen will really enjoy. Basically, it’s a super cheap depth test that really helps reduce shimmering on super thin bits of grass.

Check out here for a before-and-after gif: Imgur: The magic of the Internet

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PRISM.Sharpen is now 30% off on the Asset Store Mega-Sale! Click the link in my sig to pick up a one-click sharpen effect for your game!

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GoGoGadget Hi, is this hdrp compatible?

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Untested, and not explicitly supported. HDRP is still a bit of a pandora’s box.