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You have it installed already, right? Everything points that way. Ok, so that's clearly better. Don't know if it dealt with the bottom bar better as well. I'll open a new issue to investigate, since that code snippet definitely needs more logic added for widescreen.

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Why not use that mod? If you don't have TUTU, install the widescreen mod instead. Our own scaling ideas are already tracked in #1315.

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@lynxlynxlynx I dont want to use TUTU I want a vaninlla BG1 experience, hence the reason I'm using gemRB.

Installing the widescreen mod without a direct draw plugin or a GUI mod (only 720p) breaks gui and menus. The whole reason I am using GemRB is to not have to use a ddraw plugin or GUI mod.

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We don't care about dlls shipped, we just use the modded gui files. Here's a slightly longer explanation if you haven't seen it yet:
https://gemrb.org/Features.html#wide-screen-higher-resolutions

If you're fine with the centered look, but want a bigger gui at 1920x1080, set the gemrb resolution to 960x540 and maximize the window.

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@lynxlynxlynx Thanks I watched the video, but you suggest widescreen mod at the end. From my screenshots I don't think using the mod works with gemRB. What would you suggest for a "scaled" UI with gemRB without TUTU?

Additional: I'm not understanding how you get the UI scaled in the video. I set my resolution to 1024x768 and its still centered.

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Without the mod it will always be centered and you have to resize the window, which will in turn resize everything drawn.
bg1 only supported 640x480, so it doesn't have files for anything bigger. bg2 does and that's what's in that screenshot.

re widescreen mod: make sure you're using the latest version. And yeah, it doesn't affect the main menu, just the ingame stuff.

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Good to know thanks @lynxlynxlynx with regards to the resolution.

I'm not understanding how the widescreen mod will work with gemRB. I have the latest version installed. https://github.com/Gibberlings3/widescreen/releases/tag/v3.08 in the screenshots above where the UI is completely gone.

I noticed there is a Removed obsolete GemRB mode (lynx) (hehe) could that be related to why perhaps?

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The mod creates the updated gui files to replace the original ones, that's all. If you're using it, then you have to set the same resolution as in the mod. If the gui completely vanishes, you will see python errors in the log, since something went wrong.

The latest weidu works with the latest gemrb, don't worry about that.

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@lynxlynxlynx I tried 1280x720 in gemRB and the widescreen mod. Tried a smaller resolution just in case. There are a couple of errors in the gemRb console.

MAGE: 1
current HP:6
Mod[IE_ANIMATION_ID]: 0x6310 ResRef:CHFT1 Stance: 1
TURNUNDEADLEVEL: 0 current: 0
Colors:       421075225   1027423549   757935405   218959117   387389207   370546198   67372036
WaitCounter: 0
LastTarget: 0 <NULL>    LastSpellTarget: 0 <NULL>
LastTalked: 0 <NULL>
INVENTORY:
10: FIST - (1 0 0) Fl:0x2029Wt: 1 x 0Lb
Equipped: 1000       EquippedHeader: 0
Total weight: 0
SPELLBOOK:
EFFECT QUEUE:

[GameScript/ERROR]: Target object: IDS Targeting: 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Filters: 0 0 0 0 0

[GameScript/ERROR]: Target for dialog couldn't be found (Sender: none, Type: 0).
[Actor/DEBUG]: Debugdump of Actor Imoen (Imoen, Imoen):
Scripts: <none> <none> WAITHSTL <none> IMOEN <none> <none> WTRUNSGT
Area:       ar2600 (2922, 1980)
Dialog:     Imoen    TalkCount:  0
Global ID:  10089   PartySlot: 0
Script name:none                                Current action: 8    Total: 0
Int. Flags: 0x50a00    MC Flags: 0x0    Allegiance: 128   current allegiance:128
Class:      1   current class:1    Kit: 0 (base: 0)
Race:       1   current race:1
Gender:     2   current gender:2
Specifics:  0   current specifics:0
Alignment:  0x21   current alignment:0x21
Morale:     10   current morale:10
Moralebreak:5   Morale recovery:60
Visualrange:28 (Explorer: 0)
Fatigue: 0 (current: 0)   Luck: 0
Movement rate: 10 (current: 10)

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Those are fine, it's python errors that you should be looking for. Runtime exceptions and the like.

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@lynxlynxlynx Ok so it seems like I'm not seeing any relevant errors in the console with the widescreen mod installed and the UI is missing. Any suggestions?

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What happens if you press i for inventory?

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What happens if you press i for inventory?

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Hmm, looks like the mod did something wrong. The window is not centered and the black bar below is from it being too big. It's resized to the full height, so in effect the centering is not visible.

Looking at my last changes in 7941510, are your guiw08.chu and guiw10.chu in the game override folder identical? If not, you can try with the code changed to use guiw08 if that changes anything.

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Hmm, looks like the mod did something wrong. The window is not centered and the black bar below is from it being too big. It's resized to the full height, so in effect the centering is not visible.

Looking at my last changes in 7941510, are your guiw08.chu and guiw10.chu in the game override folder identical? If not, you can try with the code changed to use guiw08 if that changes anything.

Neither of those files are in my BG1 folder.

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Huh?! Are any *.chu in override?

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Huh?! Are any *.chu in override?

Yes

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then try with copying guiw.chu to guiw10.chu

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then try with copying guiw.chu to guiw10.chu

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You have it installed already, right? Everything points that way. Ok, so that's clearly better. Don't know if it dealt with the bottom bar better as well. I'll open a new issue to investigate, since that code snippet definitely needs more logic added for widescreen.

Awesome thanks!

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Got a fix ready, but it's equivalent to what you've already done. The mod just doesn't pad the bottom window and leaves gaps.

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So you mean "equivalent to what I've already done" as in the last screenshot I posted? Is there anyway we can scale the UI and center the dialog box?

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Manually editing the CHU should be relatively easy (you could do that with NearInfinity). Or you could delete all the other new chus in override. But I don't really see the point — is all this hassle worthy for just having taller sidebars and less visible space?

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"Not worth it" is a valid opinion i guess.

It would just be nice to not have black and have the option of having floating UI gem-rb as-is functionality. Here is some screenshots of what it could look like.

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Ok, but that's different from what you were asking in the previous post. Both can be done with mods, just apparently not the base widescreen one. And unless it patched the exe to do this programmatically, it would work with gemrb as well.

On our side is just #1315. Replicating screenshot 1 would be silly, why give away the real estate? The mod used imagery padding, since the way the window is drawn in the game, even if those areas were transparent, you'd still see only black.

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Sorry I'm not understanding what you mean "different".

The goal of this is to have a true "vanilla" experience without any other mods. This is almost the case with gemRB, but with the floating UI. You suggested using TUTU, but that is not my aim here. It would be nice if you could have a non-floating UI with gemRB as it seems to be the best way to have a vanilla experience without modding.

Then you suggested using the widescreen mod which requires other UI mods at higher resolutions.

My original description for this issue was one of the screenshots, I just posted a different one as a suggestion if that made it easier.

If you don't think its "worth it" I can understand, but I just thought it would be cool to have an option for a non-floating UI. I do think the floating UI is very cool, but some might like the full UI experience that is not feasible with mods or any other manner right now (obscure Polish UI scaling mod only works at 720p, TUTU is too heavy for vanilla experience).

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I suggested using the tutu gui mod, since you posted it as an example. It works there, because bg2 is used to play bg1, meaning the base resources are available. For us the tutu requirement doesn't really matter, since gemrb can run all ~7 major engine versions. It's the modified/new data that counts (and can be perhaps taken from the mod without even installing it). The issue I closed this as a duplicate of will eventually enable a crude approximation without extra data, but that's it.

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I am not understanding why you suggest the TUTU mod again. I do not want to use TUTU. If this is not possible then I will move on. I just thought it was a nice feature idea for gemRB.

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The renderer doesnt currently support scaling. Something that it will do after #1771, but that wont be along for a long while. Next year probably.

Somebody could (fairly) easily add background tiling (probably mirrored to get a better look) to address the blackness, but thats about it code wise. Anything more would have to be a new CHU pack and we cant really steal resources from the originals to build that. Mods are probably outside the scope of this repo, but if somebody made a good GemRB mod, we would probably host it in a new one if asked.

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