Widescreen --> OpenJK?

[Teancum]

I'll keep it short: I'm just curious if @@DT85 plans to implement the widescreen support to OpenJK. That'd be such a welcome addition.

[Guest Redemption]

I don't entirely understand... I thought what they did by enabling r_mode -2 gave you you're native resolution. If by what you refer to is the hud elements and such then, YES... I am curious also.    

[minilogoguy18]

@, it's gone further than that, the DF2 renderer supports widescreen only with actual toggle settings in the menu to choose a variety of resolutions as if the game shipped that way. Pretty sure 4:3 support has been removed since no ones using that type of monitor anymore.

[Guest Redemption]

 

with actual toggle settings in the menu to choose a variety of resolutions as if the game shipped that way

 @@minilogoguy18 but the game already does that... Still not sure on what @@Teancum actually means though.

[minilogoguy18]

No, I mean having ONLY widescreen choices in the menu, there is no more 4:3.

[Guest Redemption]

Ohh.. Thanks for clearing that up for me. What about what @@Teancum said?

[Teancum]

@, it's gone further than that, the DF2 renderer supports widescreen only with actual toggle settings in the menu to choose a variety of resolutions as if the game shipped that way. Pretty sure 4:3 support has been removed since no ones using that type of monitor anymore.

Huh? I know tons of people who still rely on their not-yet-broken 4:3 LCD, especially on secondary PCs that play old games like Jedi Academy.

 

Still, not my code, so I shouldn't complain.

[Tempust85]

The code is largely @@ent 's and its upto him if they want to implement it in Openjk.

I've added support for widescreen resolutions in the r_mode code, so we aren't just using that custom resolution method.

While the toggle for widescreen works, the menus just became too much of a hassle to make sure they worked for both 4:3 & 16:9 so we've the dumped 4:3 option in setup. You can always set the r_mode to be a 4:3 resolution, but beware the menus won't always display correctly.

 

 

 

EDIT:

 

When the 1 level PBR demo is out, the menus will be there for anyone to play with. I have the 4:3 resolutions commented out, so you could just un-comment them and the 4:3 aspect ratio option.

 

Maybe one day down the track I'll come back and make sure the menus look fine using 4:3 resolutions, but there's just so much to do right now and very little man-power.

[Jeff]

I still play on a 4:3, so that's two of us at least.

[Ramikad]

I still play on a 4:3, so that's two of us at least.

 

Three

Although it's unlikely that I'll still have the same monitor when I'll update to a system able to run GL2, whenever that will be.

[minilogoguy18]

Man, I thought I was late to the 16:9 party years ago, can't believe people are still using 4:3.

 

You guys should upgrade, there are always deals out there to be had.

[Teancum]

I can't speak for others, but I just treat it as an "if it ain't broke" situation. My main PC has a widescreen monitor, but only because I got a good deal at a garage sale.

[Tempust85]

My last 4:3 monitor was a CRT, so long ago now.

[ensiform]

OpenJK can't implement properly scaled HUD and remain compatible with mods or rewrite a new separate API code path.

 

JKA and OpenJK have supported any resolution since forever actually.

 

The only problem was you couldn't host a local server with jamp.exe and have a non 4:3 resolution without crashing which was fixed shortly after the source dump release. Playing on a server without also being a host worked fine at any though. Just the HUD isn't scaled, nor was the fov adjusted.

 

The fov is adjusted with OpenJK SP and OpenJK mod code for mp + ja++ with several options to customize to ones liking.

 

Hopefully this clears up some confusion over what people mean by resolution support.

[minilogoguy18]

Yeah, not to confuse,  when we meant support we meant being able to choose 16:9 in the settings menu in game rather than having to do it through cfg file editing, we also have menus, load screens and hud redone so that there is no stretching.

[Tempust85]

Well, not exactly redone. The ratio code from ent takes care of any stretching.