Running MIR at a high resolution

[Cleopatra]

i'll be straight I love mir, but on my 24inch 1650x1050 monitor, its really stretched, and looks to be honest, a bit rubbish.


so my question is - is it possible to develop a high-resolution mir client?

so basically the current tiles, graphics etc will be the same size as they are, but you will see say, 1024x768 of the game, rather than, 800x600 and 640x480, which the game already is, so essentially you would see double of what you currently see. i think this would make such an improvement,

the question is, is it possible ?

 

[Chriz]

Yeah, when the DM2.3 sources were being developed someone released a 1024/768 res client, i cant see any reason why it couldnt go any higher..

EDIT::
only problem is, it'd give you an unfair advantage over other player who might be using a lower res as they wouldnt see as much on their screen..

 

[Cleopatra]

making it a 1024x768 standard would make much more sense.

and if there are people that are still using 800x600, well, then they shouldn't be allowed to play mir

 

[Sean]

Yup it's possible. Would requite a lot of tweaking.

I was playing around with this a couple of years back, here's how it looks on my monitor:
http://image.legendofmir2.org/1920.PNG

 

[Primal]

Yup it's possible. Would requite a lot of tweaking.

I was playing around with this a couple of years back, here's how it looks on my monitor:
http://image.legendofmir2.org/1920.PNG

cheat :P u can hit people on wiz wen u not in their screen!!

 

[Cleopatra]

yeah that is well cool. that looks lush. thats exactly what i mean. i can't see why people aren't raving after seeing this, there is one thing that would make mir a half decent game again, and that would be upping the graphics (and this is automatically achieved by having a higher res..)

i would definitely play a high res server

 

[Cleopatra]

would this have to be configured on the server or would it all be client side ?

 

[Zen2]

Just client side

 

[Chriz]

cheat :P u can hit people on wiz wen u not in their screen!!

Not sure about our emulators, but on euro the magic range is limited (doesnt go far off the screen)

 

[mStation]

i think the skills work also out of range with our files..

as for the resolution i think something can be surely done.. also since we got the sources now for everything if we get a good programmer behind the files we can make anything happen.. but i just need to say that, if we are going into this direction, then we need to find a middle way which will make everyone happy.. because having multiply resolutions will surely allow who has a bigger screen to have a "easier game life".. immagine a 800x600 user that needs to fight a 1920x1200 user

 

[azzi]

sean u just have to triple the size of the image for the GUI to make that work :P

 

[Snowman]

Yup it's possible. Would requite a lot of tweaking.

I was playing around with this a couple of years back, here's how it looks on my monitor:
http://image.legendofmir2.org/1920.PNG

how ****ing big is that monitor!

 

[azzi]

seems like 1920x1420 or summat

 

[Ragnar]

I agree. This would be a magnificent improvement!

 

[Omen_lom]

Definatly. Lifco when you read this thread, add an option for a change of resolution tbh

if you have a crappy screen, get a new one!!!

 

[Cleopatra]

by making a standard 1280x 1024 resolution, it would be fair for everyone

 

[Liandrin2]

Seems you all missed this then http://www.lomcn.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=43356 ???

Was done before and shouldn't be too difficult to copy the code again.

Only problem that I remember was that it made mages into gods, able to cast at things twice as far away.

 

[ChiliPepper]

cheat :P u can hit people on wiz wen u not in their screen!!

one way you could counter that is make objects fade away when there out of distance.

 

[mStation]

i think this could be made so that wizzes can rage attacks in a 640x480 or a 800x600 screen starting centered in the middle and make the rest of the screen only viewable or clickable for npcs.. this will make things fair enough and allow anyone to use any kind of res.. also the widescreen resolutions..

 

[Xanan]

it looks good, but you forget.

if theres a boss mob a mile away, wizzies can just t-bold it.