UI Scaling

rubiklukerubikluke Join Date: 2013-12-30 Member: 191123Members
in Ideas and Suggestions
I know, this is really only my fault for playing on a laptop. But the UI scaling for lower resolutions makes it next to impossible to play commander. If you want to see why I can't command, try commanding on 640x400 resolution for a while. UWE, possibly make some sort of fix for this? It would be greatly appreciated.
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  • HunterDigiHunterDigi Join Date: 2013-12-18 Member: 190244Members
    edited January 2014
    I agree with this, but I suggest something a little diferent, add a render scaling option that underscales or overscales the render resolution, keeping HUD elements at screen resolution.
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  • meatmachinemeatmachine South England Join Date: 2013-01-06 Member: 177858Members, NS2 Playtester, NS2 Map Tester, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Supporter
    640x400? REALLY? You should be able to get a decent enough fps for commanding on 800x600 at least.
    I agree with you through and through but I don't understand how you can play this game at all on such a low res
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  • SamusDroidSamusDroid Colorado Join Date: 2013-05-13 Member: 185219Members, Forum Moderators, NS2 Developer, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Gold, Subnautica Playtester, NS2 Community Developer, Pistachionauts
    Well, seeing as I've already made a ton of optimizations for lower resolutions, and it's still bad for THAT low of resolution, that is as good as it is going to get.
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  • HunterDigiHunterDigi Join Date: 2013-12-18 Member: 190244Members
    edited January 2014
    @SamusDroid Why not render scaling then ? Using high resolutions for HUD elements and decrease resolution of 3D render... a simple percentage would be great, like render at 50% the resolution... or even 200% which makes some nice antialiasing.
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  • SamusDroidSamusDroid Colorado Join Date: 2013-05-13 Member: 185219Members, Forum Moderators, NS2 Developer, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Gold, Subnautica Playtester, NS2 Community Developer, Pistachionauts
    It already does scale a lot of things...some things just can not be scaled.
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  • Mattk50Mattk50 Join Date: 2013-02-04 Member: 182824Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    maybe he's trying to command 4 games at once
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  • HunterDigiHunterDigi Join Date: 2013-12-18 Member: 190244Members
    SamusDroid wrote: »
    It already does scale a lot of things...some things just can not be scaled.
    Not sure if you understand what I meant... ever played a Unreal Tournament 3 or Serious Sam 2 or 3 ? They have a render scale option that allows the 3D part of the scene to be rendered lower or higher than your screen resolution, that can help both people with low fps and people with higher end PCs which want supersampling, all this while keeping the HUD at screen resolution, therefore no more font or scaling issues with HUD.
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  • AurOn2AurOn2 COOKIES! FREEDOM, AND BISCUITS! Australia Join Date: 2012-01-13 Member: 140224Members, Forum Moderators, NS2 Playtester, Forum staff
    Yes, but NS2 does not have this option. Which is what he was trying to say.
    Sadly.
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  • HunterDigiHunterDigi Join Date: 2013-12-18 Member: 190244Members
    Well, this is the suggestion section, so I'm suggesting that render scaling is added :}
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  • HatninjaHatninja Join Date: 2014-01-16 Member: 193198Members
    This would help a ton with performance for a lot of computers!
    400x300 and below is downright unplayable
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