[Woolie Wool]

And who's going to make that art? Do you know how incredibly complex the interface art is and how few times anyone has successfully replaced it? I can think of exactly three all new interfaces in the entire history of FSO modding (TVWP, Diaspora, and Wing Commander Saga). That's it.

Well, that's what we have the templates for, right? I could see them extended for different resolutions...

The templates are just a gray, recolorable version of the original FS2 interface. You still have to redraw the UI, a truly monumental amount of work.

[mjn.mixael]

In all my time here.. can you name me once when something being a "truly monumental amount of work" has ever stopped me? Juss sayin.

[Phantom Hoover]

Wat?

Just do a similar thing as with the HUD table and allow the modder to create art that can work for multiple resolutions as they see fit.

Also, the number of people that play on triple monitors is much less than normal wide screens... No reason to change all the defaults for the niche crowd. I would still say a proper interface.tbl is a better solution than another game flag to add pillar boxes. It's way more important that we break the menus out of their 1024x768 prison.... This is 2013 after all.

or you know we could just use the simple, easy solution and allow pillarboxing as an option now and work on resizing all the interfaces later

[Reprobator]

200% agreed! 

[Ace]

If this is implemented, can it please have support for a texture to surround the pillarbox?