Text placement issues at various resolutions about space-nerds-in-space HOT 10 OPEN

I have added a --aspect-ratio option to snis_client which will allow specifying an aspect ratio that differs from the display's aspect ratio as reported by the window manager. So you can specify "--aspect-ratio 16:9" and that will match the aspect ratio of the machine the game was designed on. See commit dab38d5

This doesn't really solve the issue, in that now arbitrary aspect ratios may be specified, and for some possible aspect ratios a sane UI is impossible. For example, the game will run with a 25:1 aspect ratio, but it is not possible to actually do very much with such a setup. So in that respect, I have made the problem worse by adding an infinite variety of unfixable UI issues. However, at least now if your display is significantly different than 16:9, you can try some other aspect ratios to get something more likely to work.

I will probably continue to work on the UI to make it more tolerant of various aspect ratios.

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The issue seems to persist with the patch.

http://runlinux.net/snis/snis-fonts.png

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Thanks for reporting this. Probably a silly question, but, you are trying from top of tree? Can you try:

git pull
make mostly-clean
make

Your screenshot does not look like mine at 16:9 on any computers I have tried, so I suspect you're not running the same code I am, and although it's possible something else is going on, I'm not sure what that something else would be.

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You mention a patch... perhaps I sent you a patch to try? I don't remember, as that was at least a month ago if I did.

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You're right. I was't working with the newest code. I should have done "make mostly-clean" beforehand. My apologies.

Thanks for fixing this and I hope this goes over well this weekend at the convention :)

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Ok, cool. Hope you can take some pics and/or videos. Would be cool to see.

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Similar problem when using a 3840x2160 display.
With a 1920x1080 window, the problem persists.
Only when changing the display's resolution to something like 1920x1080 do the fonts display correctly.

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Is it just the help text?

I just now made commit dcce491 which might help. It seemed to work for me at various aspect ratios and it seemed ok to me with that commit, (but setting aspect ratios via the ASPECT_RATIO variable that quickstart and snis_launcher understand isn't exactly the same thing as running on that native resolution -- I did not duplicate your screen shot when I tried export ASPECT_RATIO=16:9 for instance.

Also, if you're running full screen at a non-native aspect ratio, you'll get weird behavior with buttons and sliders and other UI elements -- the clicking doesn't land where you expect. But if you take it out of full screen, so that the window is the right size for the aspect ratio, then that particular problem disappears.

I'm also sure that at that high resolution of 3840x2160 it probably looks kind of crappy since all the single pixel wide lines will render rather faintly. The software world isn't quite ready for that resolution. Hardware world probably mostly isn't either -- you need a hellacious fill rate.

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That did seem to help in the help screen, but it's still problematic most other places.

I expected current tech to not handle 3840x2160 very well either, but that turned out to not be the case.
GTX 970 here.

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Couple of incremental improvements here:

commit 100c154
commit 33d6df8

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