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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / 2d graphics for games with custom resolution

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bergice
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Posted: 26th Oct 2010 20:20
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Hi, i just have a short question here.

Lets say i made a game that went fullscreen and set the resolution to the desktop size.

Then i made a menu image say 1440x900 in resolution, which would fit well if i ran the game on my computer. Now if someone else was to run it or if i changed my resolution or connected it to a projector with a different resolution then this menu screen would not fit the window.

Now what can i do (except for making the menu image in lots and lots of different resolutions) to make this always fit. Could i scale the image to fit the screen, should i center the image? What is the best way to approach this?

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baxslash
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Posted: 26th Oct 2010 22:47 Edited at: 26th Oct 2010 22:48
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Hi bergice, I tend to make my menu images fairly large but set to a 4:3 ratio (IE. 1280x960) then scale it based on the height of the display or the width depending which is larger than 4:3...



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bergice
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Posted: 27th Oct 2010 21:52
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Thanks baxslash, that code works pretty smooth.

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BatVink
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Posted: 27th Oct 2010 22:58
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I would add to this that SvenB's image kit V2 in WIP includes a fantastic image resize function, to keep the graphics as near to the original in quality as possible.

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=176270&b=8

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bergice
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Posted: 28th Oct 2010 02:49
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Yea i was just looking at that, looks like it has some nice commands availible.

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