Re: [GD-General] More screen res love (tile graphics)

[Ben H. <cr...@ca...>]

>You know, a whole book could be written about dealing with=
 multiple
>screen resolutions...
>
>Handling text seems easy enough if you use something like=
 FreeType.
> Handling 3D stuff is obviously easy enough as well.  The GUI
>components can be handled either by drawing them vector style or=
 by
>having multiple resolutions for your components.
>
>What doesn't scale well, unfortunately, are tile graphics, be=
 they
>isometric or just good old 2D grids.  If your artists makes a=
 set of
> 32x16 tiles designed for 640x480, then going to other=
 resolutions
>is going to be problematic.

Most games I can think of simply show more of the surrounding=
 area at 
bigger resolutions, which neatly sidesteps the problem.

Admittedly, that does give the higher-end machines an advantage,=
 but 
they already have an advantage because they're less likely to=
 suffer 
from jerk-o-vision.

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