Hi,

Well, as the title says: is there a way of resizing bitmap panels and text according to screen resolution? Obviously it's easy to work out the new size using screen_size.x and screen_size.y, but is it actually possible to resize panels and texts at all? Or do I have to provide a different bitmap for each possible resolution if I don't want enormous panels in low resolutions? Sorry if this is a dumb Q, but I can't find anything about this anywhere.

Cheers,
Keith

Just a guess (I would like to know this too), but I think that you would have to make different PCX/BMP's for each resolution since your panels wouldn't be comprised of vector graphics.

I could be wrong (I hope so).

-Jeff

Thanks for your reply - I thought this would be the case. How do other games do it - is it something usually built into the engine?

Anyone with any ideas? I guess creating various bitmaps for each resolution isn't too difficult, though it does add a fair few lines of script...

Cheers,
Keith

You can use the same bitmaps for all the resolutions; of course they'll look smaller at higher resolutions.

Hi George, thanks for your reply but what I want to do is make the bitmaps the same size at all resolutions - of course I know I can use the same bitmaps if I'm not bothered about this.

Cheers,
Keith

I searched through the WDL Manual and I found nothing for resizing Panels.

I have noticed that in many games they just deal with the Panels looking smaller when the user picks a higher resolution than what the Panel was designed for (they do of course reposition the panels).

However, I have seen many games keep the panels perspective size the same no matter what resolution was selected. In that case I am almost certain they would have just made one large panel then down-size and save it for each resolution supported.

-Jeff

Looks like this will be in a future release of the SDK.

forum topic

-Dylan

Following on from what Braxt said, all you would have to do is create one panel for 1600x1200/1024x768 (depening on you screen resolution setups in your game), then create a new function to chnage the panel size when the resolution is lowered, then call it in the main resolution change function, and on F5 it should change - I have not tried it myself but it should work - I'll try and make an example of what I mean (I probably am making no sense as I need sleep - well, better get some )

Cya!

you could just make seperate bitmaps for each resolution.

It isn't possible to resize panels... but it is possible to scale sprites placed in the level. Perhaps, if one were to define a "panel" not as a panel but as a sprite entity attached to a view, one would be able to resize it via scale... of course that would mean no panel effects like buttons, bars, sliders and the like... all things have a downside, I guess.

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