RE: [GD-Windows] Monitor aspect detection

[Gareth L. <GL...@cl...>]

Surely what you are describing means you have a 4x3 backbuffer or projection
matrix and you are rendering to a non 4x3 front buffer ? 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicolas Romantzoff [mailto:nic...@fr...]
> Sent: 09 December 2003 17:50
> To: gam...@li...
> Subject: RE: [GD-Windows] Monitor aspect detection
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Well, frankly not really an obsession, but had a bug-report on
> point-lights lighting not being spherical. In fact, the lighting was
> making a ellipsoid mark instead of a circular one. Trust me, this was
> really obvious, and the only reason was the 1280x1024 resolution.
> 
> I know some games do "remove" those resolutions, and propose the
> 1280x960 instead, but never found that removing options from the user
> was a nice way of correcting "bugs".
> 
> The other reason for that is handling the "new" features of some LCD
> monitors being put vertically instead of horizontally. This could have
> been patched by simply comparing width and height, but that's a very
> unnatural ugly way of doing it ! :)
> 
> Nicolas.
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > 
> > I'm quite curious why this obsession, though: is it just to 
> > get it "right" or is there some virtual/physical match-up 
> > issue involved? Could you go the other way, and ask that the 
> > user adjusts his/her monitor so that the pixels are square? 
> > Perhaps ship a ruler in the box?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > 			/ h+
> 
> 
> 
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