smooth pixel perfect camera exampleHEADmain

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+//[[
+//
+//  applies sub-pixel offset to the viewport texture for smooth camera movement
+//  while keeping pixel-perfect rendering. 
+//  - game is rendered with camera snapped to integer pixels (pixel-perfect)
+//  - this shader samples the texture with a UV offset = (smooth_pos - snapped_pos)
+//  - the offset creates the illusion of smooth camera movement
+//
+//  offset: (subPixelX, subPixelY) in UV space (0-1 range)
+//  texture must have 1px padding on each side to avoid black bars when sampling.
+//]]
+
+extern vec2 offset;
+
+vec4 effect(vec4 color, Image tex, vec2 texture_coords, vec2 screen_coords) {
+    return Texel(tex, texture_coords + offset);
+}