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Author Topic: Is there a way to expand the screen's visual content?  (Read 501 times)

Umi

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Is there a way to expand the screen's visual content?
« on: April 28, 2010, 07:55:03 pm »
Not make each pixelated sprite bigger, but show more of them?  To show more tiles on-screen?
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Re: Is there a way to expand the screen's visual content?
« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2010, 08:26:30 pm »
increase the GRID (for windowed mode) or FULLGRID (fullscreen) settings. the format is x:y, as in thismanytilesacross:thismanytilesup+down

keep in mind if you cram more tiles than will fit at your resolution the individual tiles will be squished and probably look weird. there's a page somewhere that will automatically calculate the correct ratio for you, but basically determine your resolution divided by the width of each tile. so for a 16x16 tileset at 1280x800 you'd do:

1280 / 16 = 80
800 / 16 = 50

GRID:80:50
« Last Edit: April 28, 2010, 08:29:07 pm by AncientEnemy »
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Umi

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Re: Is there a way to expand the screen's visual content?
« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2010, 09:00:52 pm »
Ah thanks.  I take it that is the most tiles as will fit on screen at a time?

And as it turns out, I have 1280x800, so that works out very well.  :D
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Re: Is there a way to expand the screen's visual content?
« Reply #3 on: April 28, 2010, 09:14:30 pm »
Quote from: Umi on April 28, 2010, 09:00:52 pm
Ah thanks.  I take it that is the most tiles as will fit on screen at a time?

And as it turns out, I have 1280x800, so that works out very well.  :D

Nah, I like to run a 9x9 character set at 1440x900 resolution for a 160:100 grid size.
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Umi

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Re: Is there a way to expand the screen's visual content?
« Reply #4 on: April 28, 2010, 09:22:12 pm »
What is the default tileset size?
And are there any smaller ones?
« Last Edit: April 28, 2010, 09:32:20 pm by Umi »
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Scarpa

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Re: Is there a way to expand the screen's visual content?
« Reply #5 on: April 28, 2010, 09:32:37 pm »
Quote from: Umi on April 28, 2010, 09:22:12 pm
What is the default tileset size?

Hmm the default curses character set is 8x12 which I can't stand since it's not square.

The default 'tile' set is just curses munged to 16x16. I don't know what the Mayday tileset is because I only use character sets.

There are as small as 5x5 character sets. The tilesets all seem to be at least 16x16
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Umi

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Re: Is there a way to expand the screen's visual content?
« Reply #6 on: April 28, 2010, 09:41:57 pm »
Awesome, this was just what I was looking for guys.  I tinkered with it until I got to 120:75 and that is perfect for me.  Thanks for all your guys' help.  :)
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Re: Is there a way to expand the screen's visual content?
« Reply #7 on: April 28, 2010, 10:29:30 pm »
FYI, once the merge is done there will be the ability to just drag the corner of the window to resize, and to zoom using the scroll wheel.
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