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[rhomboidspace]

Does anyone know of one the already exists, or where to start to make one? I'm looking for a mod that has larger screens in the various menues other than game mode, playing at 1024 is great, then you switch to the map, and have this tiny thing. Any sugestions?

[DavidWallace]

Does anyone know of one the already exists, or where to start to make one? I'm looking for a mod that has larger screens in the various menues other than game mode, playing at 1024 is great, then you switch to the map, and have this tiny thing. Any sugestions?

Those who know the interface better than I can jump in here, but I don't think it can be done - the size of everything in pixels is pretty much hardcoded. Even the high-res mods don't make the objects in the game any bigger - they just allow you to see more of them.

[Jarno Mikkola]

Those who know the interface better than I can jump in here, but I don't think it can be done - the size of everything in pixels is pretty much hardcoded. Even the high-res mods don't make the objects in the game any bigger - they just allow you to see more of them.

Yeah, but the premise in here is that we would be using the Widescreen mod with the Worldmap mod etc so they can be made bigger. Now, I don't think that rhomboidspace is actually seeking a mod that would make the menus bigger, but the whole view bigger, so one could see more of the Worldmap instead of the small central map with huge black surrounding it... on my 1920x1200 screen...

[DavidWallace]

Those who know the interface better than I can jump in here, but I don't think it can be done - the size of everything in pixels is pretty much hardcoded. Even the high-res mods don't make the objects in the game any bigger - they just allow you to see more of them.

Yeah, but the premise in here is that we would be using the Widescreen mod with the Worldmap mod etc so they can be made bigger. Now, I don't think that rhomboidspace is actually seeking a mod that would make the menus bigger, but the whole view bigger, so one could see more of the Worldmap instead of the small central map with huge black surrounding it... on my 1920x1200 screen...

OK, I accept my argument doesn't apply to the Worldmap, which genuinely is larger than the screen. But pretty much nothing else is: the area maps, for instance, are a fixed size in pixels. I wouldn't be surprised to find that it's possible one could specifically mod the worldmap GUI to show more. You'd need to muck around with the settings in guiwmap.chu and see what happened. Can't say I'm sanguine, though...

[the bigg]

I've previously attempted to enlarge the WMAP CHU file (the only one that really benefits from a larger view area), but unfortunately the game is hardcoded to display the controls in the central 640x480 area and draw ston*.mos to the borders (I can set the WMAP area to be larger, but the result would be that it flickers once the STON*.MOS file is refreshed). Reducing the STON*.MOS files to 0x0 is a no-no, because it'd mean graphical glitches in all other views.