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MAking 4K playable with bigger Texts?

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JackOfOwls:
The main games and the major TCs seem to scale very well at 4K but mods like Wings of Dawn are unplayable at 4K, I noticed, unless you have your nose up to the display.  Parts of Blue Planet Complete also has texts too small to read in 2160p but most of the main text scales okay.  I wish there was a one-all solution for this.  I'll probably have to uninstall WOD unless there's a fix other than dropping down to 1080p (I've gotten too used to 2160p quite frankly and Freespace looks great at that resolution though I do notice severe banding that the other mods don't have in Blue Planet as if it were only 16-bit ).

Goober5000:
The scaling is dependent on the mod's configuration of its HUD gauges.  For total conversions, it should be possible to fix this by using the file included in the MediaVPs (mv_root-hdg.tbm).  But Blue Planet adds a few new HUD gauges that aren't part of the standard configuration, so it would be necessary to ask the mod makers to support 4k.

JackOfOwls:

--- Quote from: Goober5000 on March 13, 2024, 11:35:21 am ---The scaling is dependent on the mod's configuration of its HUD gauges.  For total conversions, it should be possible to fix this by using the file included in the MediaVPs (mv_root-hdg.tbm).  But Blue Planet adds a few new HUD gauges that aren't part of the standard configuration, so it would be necessary to ask the mod makers to support 4k.

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I think the HUD elements were of acceptable size in those TCs at 4k but the messages and dialogue texts were just too small.   It's a problem with a lot of games from older eras of course that either still supported 2160p+ or could be hacked to be 4K.  I only recently discovered that the dgVoodoo wrapper can upscale 1080p to magnificent 4K on old DirectX 8 and earlier games but keeps the tiny fonts at a much larger and more readable 1080p.  The side effect unfortunately was that movies and cut-scenes were severely enlarged and cropped.  I wish there was something similar for the FS games.  It's those tiny dialogue fonts and HUD messages that kill me at 4K, even on my 65" LG screen.

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