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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Xelion on March 18, 2004, 11:10:47 pm

Title: Wallpaper Picture Problem
Post by: Xelion on March 18, 2004, 11:10:47 pm

Only recently I noticed jaggedness on my wallpaper..

(http://home.iprimus.com.au/nexus387/forums/after.jpg)

and before I never had this problem, I could stretch the image to any resolution and it would still look the same like below

(http://home.iprimus.com.au/nexus387/forums/before.jpg)

anyone have any ideas whats causing this?

Title: Wallpaper Picture Problem
Post by: Drew on March 18, 2004, 11:16:31 pm

what res are u running at?

Title: Wallpaper Picture Problem
Post by: Xelion on March 18, 2004, 11:20:50 pm

both screens were @1024*768

Title: Wallpaper Picture Problem
Post by: Drew on March 18, 2004, 11:30:51 pm

what is the size of the picture?
It looks like the second screen is centered, and the first one is streched.

Title: Wallpaper Picture Problem
Post by: Stealth on March 18, 2004, 11:42:05 pm

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Originally posted by Drew
It looks like the second screen is centered, and the first one is streched.

that's because the top one is cropped, the bottom one is not (note the taskbar at the bottom of the second one)

Title: Wallpaper Picture Problem
Post by: Xelion on March 18, 2004, 11:52:41 pm

neither of them are centered, they are both stretched

Title: Wallpaper Picture Problem
Post by: Xelion on March 18, 2004, 11:56:49 pm

the original image I have is 800*600 but both the screens above are 1024*768

Title: Wallpaper Picture Problem
Post by: Liberator on March 19, 2004, 12:06:35 am

Try changing the display mode to centered and then back to stretched.

Alternately, and probably better in the long run, is resize the image to 1024x768.

Title: Wallpaper Picture Problem
Post by: Drew on March 19, 2004, 12:27:20 am

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Originally posted by Xelion
the original image I have is 800*600 but both the screens above are 1024*768

thats ur problem methinks.

Title: Wallpaper Picture Problem
Post by: Turnsky on March 19, 2004, 12:27:37 am

photoshop and blur tool on the jaggies..

Title: Wallpaper Picture Problem
Post by: Xelion on March 19, 2004, 02:09:21 am

Thanx for the help but I wasn't looking for that sort of solution, the problem didn't exist before so I think its a display issue within WinXP or the Graphics Driver, I just thought someone may have experienced this problem before

Title: Wallpaper Picture Problem
Post by: Drew on March 19, 2004, 02:14:07 am

i dout it would be cause by XP, what card do you have?

Title: Wallpaper Picture Problem
Post by: Setekh on March 19, 2004, 07:05:08 am

You may have accidentally enabled some web-desktop thing, which I know has caused problems for colour depth and quality of my background before - but that was back in the '98 days.

Title: Wallpaper Picture Problem
Post by: Xelion on March 19, 2004, 08:00:49 am

Some web desktop features are still enabled in XP so thanx to Setekh and everyone else for helping :D. All I did was uncheck the 'Lock desktop items' CheckBox

(http://home.iprimus.com.au/nexus387/forums/solution.jpg)

Title: Wallpaper Picture Problem
Post by: karajorma on March 19, 2004, 08:19:27 am

CannonFodder will be quite happy to see his renders are appreciated :D

Title: Wallpaper Picture Problem
Post by: Xelion on March 20, 2004, 01:57:02 am

Cool, always liked the pic, its got a sense of mystery..whats gonna happen next? :D

Title: Wallpaper Picture Problem
Post by: Setekh on March 20, 2004, 02:05:47 am

Heh, glad you got that solved. Silly Windows with strange fixes for even stranger problems... ;)

Title: Wallpaper Picture Problem
Post by: Lt.Cannonfodder on March 20, 2004, 04:59:03 am

That pic is from the MG anim, it's going to get more or less redone at some point. But if you'd like, I can make you a special beefed up version :D

Title: Wallpaper Picture Problem
Post by: Xelion on March 20, 2004, 07:01:53 am

Quote

Originally posted by Lt.Cannonfodder
That pic is from the MG anim, it's going to get more or less redone at some point. But if you'd like, I can make you a special beefed up version :D

That would be cool :nod:

Title: Wallpaper Picture Problem
Post by: Lt.Cannonfodder on March 20, 2004, 10:53:12 am

Enjoy :)

1600x1200
(http://3dactionplanet.com/hlp/hosted/14_year_war/LtCannonfodder/MGMiranda50151.jpg)

Title: Wallpaper Picture Problem
Post by: karajorma on March 20, 2004, 12:36:53 pm

Looks great CF :D Now go render the entire anim with bob-LS style thrusters :D

*Only joking*

Title: Wallpaper Picture Problem
Post by: Xelion on March 20, 2004, 08:37:31 pm

Thanks ;) any chance of also getting one with the original thrusters?

Title: Wallpaper Picture Problem
Post by: Setekh on March 21, 2004, 03:52:15 am

That looks real, real nice. Excellent use of blur. :yes: