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? for Gary King about development...

Discussion in 'Archived Threads 2001-2004' started by Troy LaMont, Aug 20, 2001.

  1. Message #1 of 9 Aug 20, 2001
    Troy LaMont

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    What's involved in making a game widescreen? I'm familiar with the process for DVDs. Is it similiar and why aren't any major game publishers doing it?
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    Morgan Jolley

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    I'm not an expert, keep that in mind.
    They have to redo the screen so that it displays a wider image and then they need to tell the icons on screen (like a speedometer) to be their normal size as widescreen, which is why they appear crunched in 4:3 view. The way they do it is probably through mathematics. I dunno.
     
  3. Message #3 of 9 Aug 20, 2001
    Gary King

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    On the Xbox, not much more is involved than simply setting the resolution to a widescreen resolution, and adjusting your viewport transform so that you don't get distortion (which is really simple).
    I can't imagine much more is involved than that on other consoles (assuming the hardware supports widescreen output); however, on consoles with stricter requirements on video memory, the additional framebuffer size might things more difficult for developers, depending on how they want to use the hardware.
     
  4. Message #4 of 9 Aug 21, 2001
    Troy LaMont

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    Gary,
    Thanks for the info, greatly appreciated. I guess the debate on whether or not game developers will implement this in their games is moot (look at the Pan & Scam debacle).
    I guess those of us with widescreen TVs will have to hope and cross our fingers on that issue. [​IMG]
     
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    Dean Cooper

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    Gary King

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  7. Message #7 of 9 Aug 22, 2001
    Troy LaMont

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    Dean,
    Thanks for the info! [​IMG]
    Gary,
    I can tell based on your responses to some of the Xbox questions that you're somewhat 'excited' about seeing it's potential come to life and thrust ahead.
    Question: Are other people in your field and/or similiar fields as equally excited about Xbox's potential?
    Just curious. I wouldn't know the first place to look to even gather information on that front.
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    Gary King

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    Well, real-time graphics is a very hardware-dependent field, so newer and more powerful hardware generates quite a bit of excitement. And Xbox is very new and very powerful... and it fixes all the annoying things in DirectX, which is really nice, too.
     
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    Troy LaMont

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    So that .. would.... be a .... yes?! [​IMG] [​IMG]
    Thanks.
    My problem now is finding a component video switcher for my; DVD, PS2, XBOX AND HDTV! Sheesh, problems never end.
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