We've been talking about this a bit in IRC, but NOiZE asked me to post it here as well.
As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. I think this should illustrate the issue somehwat:
http://kujeger.net/imgdump/taspring/tas ... roblem.jpg
In the top part, I started TASpring with a resolution of 1280x960. I cropped the image to 1280x480, keeping it centered.
In the bottom part, I started TASpring with a resolution of 1280x480, and grabbed a screenshot.
As you can see, when spring renders at a widescreen resolution you get a very noticeable fish-eye lens effect.
This works out okay enough when using a widescreen monitor, but when you use two monitors it becomes very..distracting, since the area with little distortion will be split along the middle of the two monitors.
It also makes putting the minimap on one monitor unplayable:
http://kujeger.net/imgdump/taspring/screen000.jpg
I believe Yeha mentioned it's the FoV that does this, Is it possible to "fix" this? It would be awesome to use one screen for the minimap, or just for a larger field of play.
Camera/Perspective issues with Widescreen and Dual Monitors
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Also a lot of gui elements are stretched:
as shown in the above image. Perhaps this could be a easy fix.
And one final thing, the blue message box is in the middle and i can't move it so it's a bit anooying to read lines of text over 2 screens because of the border in between, so making that blue box movable will fix that.
Of course the newgui is comming, but how long will it actually take?
And if these fixes are small, i don't see any reason why someone shouldn't patch this
as shown in the above image. Perhaps this could be a easy fix.
And one final thing, the blue message box is in the middle and i can't move it so it's a bit anooying to read lines of text over 2 screens because of the border in between, so making that blue box movable will fix that.
Of course the newgui is comming, but how long will it actually take?
And if these fixes are small, i don't see any reason why someone shouldn't patch this
Can you show us shots of 0.73b1? A lot fo GUI components have had their layout code rearranged and tweaked and changed.
For example I've not noticed the sidebar stretching in 0.73 unlike 0.72b1.
Aside from that everything seems fine on my 16:10 aspect ratio widescreen 21" monitor (except being unable to run at my native resolution of 1680x1050 and reverting to 1280x960).
Simply put, SDL doesnt have very good support for dual screen modes...
For example I've not noticed the sidebar stretching in 0.73 unlike 0.72b1.
Aside from that everything seems fine on my 16:10 aspect ratio widescreen 21" monitor (except being unable to run at my native resolution of 1680x1050 and reverting to 1280x960).
Simply put, SDL doesnt have very good support for dual screen modes...
Well, that'll be because your at one of the extremes, the amount of space you're viewing at any one time is huge.
Although I agree that the side bar and so on would be better if they allowed for more items to be shown rather than being stretched. Afterall I'd prefer to double the nubmer of menu items than double the height of menu items.
Although I agree that the side bar and so on would be better if they allowed for more items to be shown rather than being stretched. Afterall I'd prefer to double the nubmer of menu items than double the height of menu items.
Holy crap, I've never heard of any kind of monitor running on a resolution like that. What sort of laptop/monitor have you got, just for curiosity sake?
My laptop's native res is 1280x800... Spring doesn't seem to distort noticably, but I mainly use it for testing while developing on my main rig.
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Oh also, did you know you can disable the screen stretching and just have the monitor run wih black bars around the picture? It's handy for some things, like to get a few extra FPS while playing a very demanding game or whatever. It's different to set up in nvidia and ati control panels, but just sorta hard to find. The option's not where you'd expect it. If you'd like to give it a try, I can find the locations for you.
My laptop's native res is 1280x800... Spring doesn't seem to distort noticably, but I mainly use it for testing while developing on my main rig.
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Oh also, did you know you can disable the screen stretching and just have the monitor run wih black bars around the picture? It's handy for some things, like to get a few extra FPS while playing a very demanding game or whatever. It's different to set up in nvidia and ati control panels, but just sorta hard to find. The option's not where you'd expect it. If you'd like to give it a try, I can find the locations for you.
i got 2 monitors Caydr....
anyway i found some more weird stuff:
Trees kinda disappear after 2049x900 (So basicly when the width gets bigger then 2048)
2048x900:
Trees work fine!
2049x900:
My trees are gone!!!
But zooming in brings them back, however they lost their leaves!!
EDIT:
When i set 2560x1024 in fullscreen mode, the trees do work with the current release, however from the SVN 2052 it does not work
anyway i found some more weird stuff:
Trees kinda disappear after 2049x900 (So basicly when the width gets bigger then 2048)
2048x900:
Trees work fine!
2049x900:
My trees are gone!!!
But zooming in brings them back, however they lost their leaves!!
EDIT:
When i set 2560x1024 in fullscreen mode, the trees do work with the current release, however from the SVN 2052 it does not work
