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Nesoo

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« on: November 09, 2007, 10:41:00 pm »

I understand that it's not meant to be useful yet, but one of these is obviously much more useful than the other:

Just for kicks, I turned off blackspace and looked at it in full screen again. Still not great, but definitely better:

Basically, right now, the only way to use it is to be in windowed mode.

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Faces of Mu

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Re: Visualizer
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2007, 01:51:00 am »

You're gonna hafta dumb it down for me, Nesoo. Which is better and why do you think it is better??
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Red Jackard

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Re: Visualizer
« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2007, 07:37:00 am »

The window is better. Obviously because it is centered in the window.

And context
 

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looked at it in full screen again. Still not great

[ November 11, 2007: Message edited by: Red Jackard ]

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Nesoo

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Re: Visualizer
« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2007, 04:12:00 pm »

I figured pictures would suffice, but a text description shall follow:

I normally play 800x600 full screen with black space on (because the stretching it does without black space is ugly). When you use the visualizer in that mode, it seems to use the full width of the screen for the visualizer's width, and puts the center of the visualizer along the top of the screen instead of the center of the screen. Aside from rotating, the controls are more or less useless, as you can't really zoom in on any feature (and may have to zoom out to see anything useful at all).

Full screen with black space off also seems to use the full width of the screen for the visualizer's width, but at least it's properly centered. I have not played with the controls in this mode, and thus can not comment on them.

Windowed mode properly centers and scales the visualizer to fit in its section of the screen. The controls in this mode work beautifully.

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