Game 1024x768px - beamer 800x600px ?

[Iliya]

Hello,

I received the following question via email about my game which is 1024x768px.

Hi,

once upon the time ... I got this adventure series, named cosmos quest., some time ago, and right now we remembered the still unfinished part 4 and we would like to play it to its end...

It works, quite good, but there is one question still open: Is there a chance to play it with a lower resolution? The background: in my living room we installed a beamer, a relativelly easy one, with a resolution of only 800x600. It would be great to play via this screen because of the better visibility for two or three of us...

best regards,

Martin & Sabine

Please advise.

Thank you.

[Crimson Wizard]

There's an experimental custom resolution AGS build that allows scaling games down:
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=49014.msg636473535#msg636473535

I would not suggest creating a real game with that yet (unless really wanted), but it may be used to run existing games with new settings.

How to make a test:
All you need from the package is "acwin.exe" (AGS runtime engine). Copy it to the game's directory. Add following lines to the configuration file ("acsetup.cfg") under "[misc]" category:

Code: text

renderstyle=proportional
screenwidth=800
screenheight=600

Run "acwin.exe". Your game should be scaled down to 800x600.

To be honest, I do not have much reports about how well this works. Scaling is performed using Nearest-neighbour algorythm, and scaling down too much will cripple the picture.
You may set "gfxFilter" to "None", but you may also try other non-nearest-neighbour filters, like anti-aliased NN, or Hqx2/3. The image will be first scaled up with the filter, but then scaled down to required resolution. There probably may be some difference depending on which you use.

Just a demonstration of what happens to 800x600 game scaled down to 320x240 (for a test):
[imgzoom]http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/3912/8myx.jpg[/imgzoom]