Setting up your UI

[Danth]

Originally Posted by Deliverator [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Does 4:3 make a difference because you can see more up/down than you can in 16:9?

That is correct. If you want to be obsessive you can go to even narrower ratios and gain even more up-down vision, at the cost of the viewable screen area being quite skinny. A square-ish window probably makes for the best compromise. 16:9 is generally usable, especially for users who favor third person. Ultra-widescreens, wider than that, can cut off so much as to seriously hinder the user.

Danth

[Xallis]

Originally Posted by Deliverator [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Does 4:3 make a difference because you can see more up/down than you can in 16:9?

Yeah, from testing it seems like vertical FOV will keep going up if you keep reducing width but past 4:3 you're losing too much horizontally. It may just be a camera trick but it also seems like you can zoom out much further in 4:3.

[Deathrydar]

Originally Posted by Deliverator [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Does 4:3 make a difference because you can see more up/down than you can in 16:9?

I played this game in widescreen for so long. Just a few weeks ago I went 4:3....

Now I will never go back.

[Tecmos Deception]

Originally Posted by Deathrydar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I played this game in widescreen for so long. Just a few weeks ago I went 4:3....

Now I will never go back.

Ugh. I'm not sure I can do it. My 1920x1080 monitor doesn't leave me enough black space to do much of anything with if I center the view area, and if I right- or left-justify, it fucks with my brain that the center of the play area isn't the center of the monitor. I even moved the monitor over so I'm centered on the play area but it still was driving me nuts. And having chat windows overlap between the black border and the play area is another mindfuck unless I put a black texture behind the window, and then that's just a different sort of mindfuck.

I guess I could probably get used to it in a week? If I don't go insane first.

What's the benefit of a little more vertical field of view anyways? Not having to look up and down a little when fighting giants or stuff in plane of sky? Lol.

[Jibartik]

Originally Posted by Tecmos Deception [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ugh. I'm not sure I can do it. My 1920x1080 monitor doesn't leave me enough black space to do much of anything with if I center the view area, and if I right- or left-justify, it fucks with my brain that the center of the play area isn't the center of the monitor. I even moved the monitor over so I'm centered on the play area but it still was driving me nuts. I guess I could probably get used to it in a week?

What's the benefit of a little more vertical field of view anyways?

[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] "cool didn't notice that ceiling before."

[Deathrydar]

Originally Posted by Jibartik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] "cool didn't notice that ceiling before."

Exactly! Plus the game just looks better cause it's squished together more and not all stretched apart. And a small amount of pixels on your screen looks much better squished up than stretched out!

[Gustoo]

Just try it. Yeah

[Deliverator]

Also how do you do that? I don't see how to make it look like that...

[Xallis]

Originally Posted by Deliverator [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Also how do you do that? I don't see how to make it look like that...

I didn't know about it until this thread:

https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...d.php?t=336121

Played blue in 16:9 for years with no issues but gonna give this a try for this go-round.

[Xallis]

I think the command that worked for me ended up being

/viewport 640 0 1440 1920

or somewhere thereabouts on a monitor running at 2560x1440 - probably some shaved off here and there since I adjusted my window size to not overlap the taskbar.