vkBasalt Manager (v1.3.0)

vkBasalt Manager — Decky Loader Plugin (v1.3.0)

✨ Added

• Profiles: create as many named configurations as you want! Each profile has its own shader toggles, built-in effect sliders, and toggle key. The "Copy launch option" button adapts automatically: ENABLE_VKBASALT=1 %command% for the Default profile, or VKBASALT_CONFIG_FILE="..." ENABLE_VKBASALT=1 %command% for a named one (vkBasalt's native per-config mechanism)
• 5 more external shaders with sliders: Border, ColorMatrix, Clarity, Monochrome, and DPX join the 13 already adjustable — 18 external shaders total now expose their most impactful parameter (or two, for GaussianBlur/FakeHDR/Vignette) directly in the Quick Access Menu
• Collapsible sections: Built-in Effects and the three external categories (Light/Medium/Heavy) are now toggle buttons with a small squared +/− indicator, collapsed by default — much less scrolling to reach what you actually want to change
• Reset All Effects to Default button (Settings, marked with a red ⚠️): resets the active profile's shader toggles and built-in effect sliders, and also resets every external shader's parameter(s) back to their coded default directly in the .fx file. Note the split scope: toggles/built-in sliders reset only the active profile, while external shader parameters reset globally across all profiles, since those values live in the shared .fx file rather than in a per-profile config
• Default value shown on every slider: each of the 22 adjustable parameters (4 built-in + 18 external) now displays its min–max range and default value under its name

🎨 Changed

• Category color squares replaced with colored text: shader names and section headers are now tinted (green/orange/red/blue) directly, no separate swatch
• Removed the visual separators between Profiles / Built-in Effects / External Shaders / Settings for a more compact, continuous layout
• Unified font size (13px) across every label, shader name, section header, and button in the plugin
• The "Copy launch option" button wraps and shrinks its text instead of overflowing the panel width

🐛 Fixed

• Profile selection silently reverting to Default: the dropdown-based selector could revert to the first entry after picking another profile. Replaced with a button-per-profile list (the same reliable pattern already used for Install/Uninstall/Create/Delete elsewhere in the plugin)
• Broken launch command for profile names containing spaces: the VKBASALT_CONFIG_FILE path is now quoted
• TypeScript build warning: removed a placeholder prop that isn't part of TextFieldProps in @decky/ui

📦 Installation

Same as before — download vkbasalt-manager.zip below, then in Gaming Mode: Quick Access Menu → Settings → Developer → Install Plugin from ZIP File.

See the README for the full shader list, profile usage, and troubleshooting.

vkBasalt Manager (v1.2.0)

vkBasalt Manager — Decky Loader Plugin (v1.2.0)

✨ Added

• Parameter sliders for 13 external shaders: 4xBRZ, Cartoon, Curves, FakeHDR, FilmicAnamorphSharpen, GaussianBlur, LumaSharpen, Sepia, SmartVibrance, Technicolor, Technicolor2, Vibrance, and Vignette now expose their key numeric settings as sliders, right under their toggle in the Quick Access Menu. Unlike the built-in effects, these values are read from and written directly to the shader's .fx file (that's where ReShade shaders keep their defaults), using a small hand-picked list rather than a generic parser — kept deliberately simple to stay easy to maintain
• Colored category headers: "Light Effects", "Medium Effects", and "Heavy Effects" section titles are now tinted to match their square indicator (green/orange/red) instead of plain white text

🗑️ Removed

• Nine shaders were dropped from the bundle after review to keep the list focused on effects that add clear value: FilmGrain, FilmGrain2, HighPassSharpen, HSLShift, Levels, LevelsPlus, LiftGammaGain, SmartSharp, and Colourfulness

🧹 Internal

• Full integrity pass across the codebase: verified Python syntax, ran static analysis for unused imports/dead code, cross-checked every backend method against its frontend call site, and confirmed the shipped ZIP matches the source files exactly

📦 Installation

Same as before — download vkbasalt-manager.zip below, then in Gaming Mode: Quick Access Menu → Settings → Developer → Install Plugin from ZIP File.

See the README for the full shader list and troubleshooting.

vkBasalt Manager (v1.1.0)

vkBasalt Manager — Decky Loader Plugin (v1.1.0)

✨ Added

• 27 new external ReShade shaders with dedicated names, categories, and descriptions: 4xBRZ, AdaptiveSharpen, Border, Cartoon, Clarity, ColorMatrix, Comic, CRT, Curves, Daltonize, Defring, DPX, FakeHDR, FilmicAnamorphSharpen, FilmicPass, GaussianBlur, HQ4X, LumaSharpen, Monochrome, Nostalgia, Sepia, SmartVibrance, Technicolor, Technicolor2, Tonemap, Vibrance, Vignette
• Automatic depth capture: depthCapture in vkBasalt's config now toggles on/off by itself depending on whether a depth-dependent shader (Comic, FilmicAnamorphSharpen) is active — no manual setting to remember
• Category grouping for external shaders: split into 🟩 Light, 🟧 Medium, 🟥 Heavy sections (color-matched headers), each sorted alphabetically

🎨 Changed

• Category indicators switched from round dots to colored squares (🟦🟩🟧🟥) throughout the UI
• "Toggle key" setting redesigned as a full-width field, consistent with the other buttons in Settings
• "Copy ENABLE_VKBASALT=1 %command%" now shows a green checkmark on success instead of text feedback

🐛 Fixed

• Case-insensitive shader file matching: multi-word shader filenames (e.g. AdaptiveSharpen.fx) previously failed to be written into vkBasalt.conf due to a naive capitalization guess; the plugin now matches filenames properly regardless of case
• Clipboard copy reliability: added a fallback to the legacy execCommand("copy") method, since the modern Clipboard API is often blocked in Steam's embedded browser context
• AUR mirror requests: added a browser-like User-Agent to curl/wget calls to avoid being blocked by anti-bot mirror rules
• OPENSSL_x.x.x not found errors: the Decky backend's PyInstaller-bundled libraries were leaking into subprocess calls (curl/wget/tar); LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now stripped before running them

🗑️ Removed

• Global activation mode: the plugin no longer offers a toggle between global and per-game activation — it's per-game only now (ENABLE_VKBASALT=1 %command%), which is safer and more predictable. Existing installs that were set to global mode are migrated automatically on first load.
• Per-shader external parameter editing: dropped for simplicity; edit a shader's .fx file directly if you need to change its defaults
• "Copy DISABLE_VKBASALT=1" button: removed as redundant now that global mode is gone
• A few shaders were dropped from the bundle after review: FineSharp (multiple techniques in one file, unsupported by vkBasalt), FilmGrain, FilmGrain2, HighPassSharpen, HSLShift, Levels, LevelsPlus, LiftGammaGain, SmartSharp, Colourfulness, SuperEagle

📦 Installation

Same as before — download vkbasalt-manager.zip below, then in Gaming Mode: Quick Access Menu → Settings → Developer → Install Plugin from ZIP File.

See the README for the full shader list and troubleshooting.

Full Changelog: v1.0.0...v1.1.0

vkBasalt Manager (v1.0.0)

vkBasalt Manager — Decky Loader Plugin (v1.0.0)

First release of vkBasalt Manager as a native Decky Loader plugin — manage vkBasalt entirely from the Quick Access Menu, no terminal or Desktop Mode required.

✨ Features

• One-click install/uninstall of vkBasalt (64 and 32-bit) from the Chaotic-AUR mirror, plus the bundled ReShade shaders
• Built-in effects (CAS, FXAA, SMAA, DLS) with toggle switches and live parameter sliders
• External ReShade shaders — any .fx file dropped into ~/.config/reshade/Shaders shows up automatically
• Configurable toggle key (default: Home)
• Per-game activation — copy ENABLE_VKBASALT=1 %command% to clipboard in one tap, paste into a game's launch options

📦 Installation

1. Download vkbasalt-manager.zip below
2. In Gaming Mode: Quick Access Menu → Settings → Developer → Install Plugin from ZIP File
3. Select the downloaded ZIP
4. Open the Quick Access Menu, find vkBasalt Manager, and install vkBasalt from there

See the README for full usage, effect list, and troubleshooting.

⚠️ Known limitations

• Profiles, diagnostics, and import/export from the original bash script aren't included — this release focuses on the core install/configure workflow, better suited to the Quick Access Menu format
• External shader parameters aren't editable from the plugin UI; edit the .fx file directly if you need to change one

🙏 Credits

• vkBasalt by DadSchoorse
• ReShade and its shader ecosystem
• Decky Loader