ideas for Big displays

Post by **Modanung** » 29 Sep 2005, 21:37

No, maze puzzles/maps would be easier, still giving high-res players advanatages.

Post by **Talaroc** » 30 Sep 2005, 04:59

Is there a reason that, for smaller displays, everything can't be scaled down, so that they see the same number of tiles, just at a smaller scale?

Tenche · Post by **Tenche** » 30 Sep 2005, 10:06

ya

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Post by **Bjørn** » 30 Sep 2005, 19:18

Talaroc wrote:Is there a reason that, for smaller displays, everything can't be scaled down, so that they see the same number of tiles, just at a smaller scale?

This simply poses the same technical problems as scaling everything up for higher resolution displays. If we solve either we have probably solved both.

Post by **Crush** » 30 Sep 2005, 20:20

i doubt that the tiles and sprites would still look good when automatically rescaled.

here a screenshot scaled 1:1. thats how it would look at 800x600.

here rescaled to fill the same area at 1024x768

here for 640x480

i used bicubic interpolation. this might be too slow to use it on the fly. that means we will only have such a good quality when we precalculate the tilesets for every possible resolution. when we rescale everything at runtime the graphical quality will be even worse.

xand · Post by **xand** » 01 Oct 2005, 00:24

Isn't a higher resolution mostly to see more ?

At least I remember that all those top down games I played
just increased the view-size. I was always happy too see more.

And btw: Thats one of the big reasons to play a game windowed.
Scaled to 1600x1024 tmw would look strange imo...

maci · Post by **maci** » 01 Oct 2005, 06:13

jup

it was not about scaling the tiles it was about seeing more tiles at the same time

Post by **Rotonen** » 01 Oct 2005, 12:44

Since we're open source, I think we cannot prevent people from increasing the map viewsize, but I also think our default client should have the same area visible for every resolution. And since we're open soruce it's not that hard to do pre-scaled tiles for different resolutions if people want them (they could have custom repositories).

Post by **Matt** » 01 Oct 2005, 14:02

Well it wouldn't matter. If the server sends only the informations about a area that is always the same people can modifiy the client, but they only would see the map. no monsters, players, items, npcs, balblalbalbaa

ktm · Post by **ktm** » 01 Oct 2005, 21:55

if any resizing takes place, i'd say to go with even numbers for scaling. that way we could use scaling methods suitable for "snes-style"/"comic" content (

hq2x, hq3x etc) so the resulting images wouldn't look too crappy (some even say snes games scaled via this method look better than the originals). bilinear/bicubic etc are okay for natural images, but crap for pixel art.

samples:

2x scaled

3x scaled - this one actually looks quite good ^_^

4x scaled

on second thought: unfortunately that'd limit the valid sizes to 800x600, 1600x1200, 2400x1800 etc, which could be a little too high for some people... unless we cut something off at the borders, giving them a disadvantage...

Post by **Crush** » 01 Oct 2005, 22:32

that method really looks good. does gimp support this algorithm?

ktm · Post by **ktm** » 01 Oct 2005, 23:30

dunno - doubt it though, since the size multiplier's fixed, so it wouldnt work too well as a plugin. but you can use the standalone versions instead.