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Pompei2 (Administrator) 2010-04-02, 12:16 #1
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Subject: Request for menu background
Hi mooshie,

I have an idea how to make the menu background look good on any screen resolution! Currently it is being stretched and on some resolutions (mostly widescreen, the ones we didn't know), it looks bad.

We should simply make it wider than needed (just repeat the background on the right somehow) and higher than needed (I don't know how to make it longer though).

I will make a list of resolutions (and how much bigger to make it) for you in an hour or so. Is that a good idea? do you still have the original background image you can edit?
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moOshiE (Moderator) 2010-04-02, 17:46 #2
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which menu background?
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Pompei2 (Administrator) 2010-04-10, 22:39 #3
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The game's main menu background (with the hole on the bottom left). We need following image sizes:

The first size is the size of the image we need. The size in red in paranthesis is the resolution of the list which is most used according to wikipedia, thus you should make it fit for that resolution and then just make the background go bigger to the right for the others. I have summed the % usage from wikipedia for every group.


??% 1024 x 600 (for 800x600 and 1024x600 resolutions)
25% 1366 x 800 (for 1024x768, 1152x768, 1280x720, 1280x768, 1366x768 and 1280x800 resolutions)
15% 1440 x 960 (for 1152x864, 1280x854, 1280x960, 1440x900 and 1440x960 resolutions)
38% 1680 x 1050 (for 1280x1024, 1400x1050 and 1680x1050 resolutions)
17% 1280 x 1200 (for 1600x1200, 1920x1080, 1920x1200 and 2048x1080 resolutions)

The last one is just for all biggest resolutions available, we might not ship that, we have to think about it.
??% 2560 x 2048 (for 2048x1536, 2560x1600 and 2560x2048 resolutions)

The resolutions are taken from the graph showing them all at the same wikipedia article. I always took one (or two) that is (are) in very widespread use and grouped it with the minors that are close to it.

Damn, we're working on the menu for like 3 years now, it's gotta be the best menu a game has ever seen ;-) But I'm working on OpenGL, skeletal animation etc. stuff right now don't worry, we'll get there soon (this summer?).
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