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

[Greg S. <gr...@st...>]

You could create art work for each resolution that you're supporting - for
example, appropriate sized tiles that maintain your ratio for 800x600,
1024x768, and 1600x1200, then limit the screen resolutions to those values.
Sort of sprite based LOD.  It's more art time, but probably not TOO much
more as I imagine most of the source material is high-res renders anyways.

Barring that, I think the only other viable solution is to show more tiles
on screen.  You're not going to ever get any more detail out of them by
blowing them up (arguably less, thanks to filtering), so why not just show
more?  That leaves it up to the user - if they're squinting to see
something, they'll bump the res back down to the default.  Sure it could
screw up balance - but if the game is designed for a certain resolution,
only those who bump it up are going to get the advantage.  And if seeing a
few extra tiles is so important to someone who is competing, they're going
to know about and take advantage of the higher screen res anyways.  Some
pretty popular games have successfully taken this approach, including Age of
Empire/Kings.

-----Original Message-----
From: gam...@li...
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Brian Hook
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 5:22 PM
To: gam...@li...
Subject: Re: [GD-General] More screen res love (tile graphics)


>I'm confused... isn't the problem different aspect ratios?

That can be a problem, but I'm not even looking that far ahead.

>I don't
>see how different resolutions from your target resolution with the
>same aspect ratio are a problem.

If you design your artwork as a 32x32 titles, then your game is
predicated upon, say, 15x10 tiles in your play area if you designed
it around 640x480.

Now you try to run at 1024x768.  You can either fit more tiles on the
screen (but note that they'll be much smaller and harder to
identify), which can screw up play balance, or you can try to scale
up your artwork to match, which will obviate any advantage of going
to a higher resolution.

The typical solution is just to force things into 640x480 mode, but
on an LCD monitor the interpolation artifacts are so severe that this
isn't really a tenable solution either.

Brian




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