RE: [GD-General] Vector GUIs

[Mick W. <mi...@ne...>]

We did 720p for Tony Hawk 4 on XBox, still maintained mostly 60fps.
1080i was also reasonably, but I think we ran out of memory.  It looked
pretty cool though.

I've always found that you can scale HUD bitmaps with impunity,
especially if they are destined for display on a TV.   Even on HDTV, the
typical console user is sitting much further away from the TV than a
typical PC user is from their monitor, so they don't notice a few
stretched or missing pixels.

When changing from 4:3 to 16:9, we actually just correct the 3D
elements.  2D stuff we just leave it as is.  Nobody notices.

I know one person who watches regular 4:3 TV stretched out to 16:9,
because he feels it looks better.  The brain can compensate for a lot,
and the average user does not mull on these things. 

Mick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: phi...@pl...
> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 9:16 AM
> Noel:
> > Having said that, we also take it into account and ended up not
> supporting HDTV in MechAssault.
> 
> I wonder what proportion of console titles actually support 
> HDTV, beyond 480p. All those extra pixels have to come from 
> somewhere. 480p at 60fps, or 1080i at 15fps. 1080i at 60fps, 
> with your 480p/i mode drawing 25% of potential. Supporting 
> HDTV properly, sort of implies short-changing people without 
> it, which is 99% of your market (self included).
> 
> Cheers,
> Phil