NPP - Gmod Advanced Server Post Processing System - Script

Description of NPP - Gmod Advanced Server Post Processing System

1. 📘 What is NPP - Gmod Advanced Server Post Processing System?
2. 📕 NPP Addon Management Panel
3. ⭐ VIP Content
4. 👁️ Various enhanced and real-time editable visual effects
5. ⚙️ Server Options
6. 🔌 List of GLOBAL Gmod functions disabled by default
7. 🚀 Optimization of the default post-processing effects
8. ⚡ File size optimization
9. 🧩 Gmod addons compatible with NPP

NPP - Gmod Advanced Server Post Processing System is a revolutionary tool that allows Gmod server administrators to deeply optimize and customize post-processing visual effects. With NPP, you can synchronize settings for all players connected to your server, improve performance, and provide a unique, professional visual experience.

Your gamemode will have a unique look, making your players forget they are visually in Gmod.

NPP includes an intuitive and user-friendly management panel. All visual effects are accessible through a clear menu that dynamically adjusts based on the options activated. Variables or functionalities that are disabled are hidden, simplifying management.

Give your VIP members an exclusive advantage: the ability to configure their own post-processing effects. This feature enhances the value of VIP status on your server while adding a unique touch of personalization.

Enjoy these customizable visual effects in real-time:

Dynamic Depth of Field (Dynamic DOF)
The dynamic depth of field is often referred to more precisely as depth of field (DoF in English). It defines the range of sharpness in an image, i.e., the extent of the distance between the nearest and farthest objects that appear sharp in a scene. Dynamic DOF introduces a depth blur effect that activates when the player focuses on nearby NPCs or objects. This simulates a focus on a subject.
Depth of field is a key tool for visual storytelling, allowing the manipulation of emotions, prioritization of visual information, or stylization of a scene.

Grain
Adds a film grain effect, giving the image a cinematic or retro look. The grain effect remains a powerful tool for establishing mood, emphasizing a particular aesthetic, or evoking a specific era in the context of a film or screenshot.

Tilt-Shift (Toy Town)
Creates a blurred band at the top and bottom of the screen. This type of effect is called "tilt-shift" when used to create artificial depth of field, giving the impression that the image depicts a miniature scene. However, if you're simply referring to a blurred band at the top and bottom without the "miniature" effect, it can be an aesthetic choice or a tool to draw attention to the center of the image.
In some cases, it can also serve as a form of soft vignetting or a masking blur to soften the edges of the frame. This kind of effect is often used in cinema or photography to stylize the image or simulate a specific focus.

Vignette
Darkens the edges of the screen for an immersive and dramatic visual effect. This effect is adjustable in terms of intensity and size.
In photography or post-production, vignetting is often added intentionally to create an aesthetic effect or to direct attention to the center of the image.
Aesthetic uses of vignetting:
1- Focusing attention: By darkening the edges, the viewer’s gaze is naturally drawn to the center, where the main subject is often located.
2- Creating ambiance: Vignetting can convey a sense of mystery, intimacy, or nostalgia, or give an image a vintage feel.

The vignette effect remains a powerful tool for adding personality or guiding the visual interpretation of an image or scene.

Bloom
Adds a glow effect around bright objects, giving a sensation of radiant, pleasant brightness, ideal for enhancing light sources.

Motion Blur
Adds motion blur based on the player’s speed or the environment. This effect simulates the perception of speed and adds realism.

Color Improvement
Allows the adjustment of hues, saturation, and brightness for optimized color rendering. Useful for fine-tuning the atmosphere of the map or achieving a specific visual effect.

Sharpen
Improves the clarity of images by enhancing details for a sharper and more defined look. The Sharpen effect increases local contrast around edges and details in an image. This gives the illusion of sharper imagery, even if the pixels themselves do not contain more information. Sharpen is an essential tool for making an image more impactful, but it must be used sparingly to avoid artifacts and preserve a natural appearance.

Sobel
Draws dark outlines around objects, creating a stylized graphic effect that highlights shapes.

Sun Beam
Adds light rays around the sun, simulating a realistic and cinematic solar halo.

Associated settings:
Each effect includes detailed parameters to adjust intensity, size, or color influence (e.g., vignette intensity, grain transparency, red/green/blue tints, etc.). These settings allow fine-tuned customization based on your server's preferences or atmosphere. All connected players will see exactly what you've configured.

Easily configure NPP with these server options:
Global deactivation: Instantly disables NPP for all players.
VIP advantage: Allows your VIP members to customize their own post-processing effects.
Map-specific configuration: Activates specific post-processing for each map, ideal when lighting differs significantly between maps.
GLOBAL functions override: Allows my system to disable all default rendering hooks and GLOBAL functions related to these effects for better client-side performance.

To maximize performance, Gmod's default visual effects (e.g., DrawBloom, DrawSobel) are disabled. This optimization ensures resources are used exclusively for NPP's advanced and customized features. An option allows reactivating these features if needed.

Affected Gmod GLOBALs: DrawSunbeams, DrawBloom, DrawMotionBlur, DrawColorModify, DrawSharpen, DrawSobel, DrawBokehDOF, DrawToyTown

Discover significant performance improvements on Garry's Mod original post-processing effects in addition to those added. Here are the optimizations made on various effects, expressed in percentages:

DrawSunbeams: Significantly improved performance
DrawBloom: Significant optimization
DrawMotionBlur: Significant improvement in fluidity
DrawColorModify: Improved resource management
DrawSharpen: Optimized calculation
DrawSobel: GPU load reduction
DrawBokehDOF: Faster, smoother processing

NPP is designed to minimize the impact on connection and download times:

File sizes:
Client (Lua): 32 KB.
Server (Lua): 8 KB.
Configuration (Lua): 6 KB.

Workshop (Material): only 82 KB.

These optimizations ensure fast and smooth connections for all your players.

NPP is fully compatible with a wide range of Gmod addons. It integrates seamlessly with your existing systems.

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