[Akalabeth Angel]

I'm making this poll for research purposes so please answer accurately.
Basically, I'm thinking about doing some cutscenes and I would prefer to optimise them for the most regularly used setting.
Subtitle text in cutscenes does not seem to be centre-able, rather one just has to eyeball it after trial and error in Fred. However as far as I know this will change for different resolutions.

Though images are centreable and if everyone plays at 1280x1024 it might be worthwhile just to create text images since it seems they can be centred onscreen. (at that resolution the default text is so bloody small)

[Fury]

Stopping at 1280x1024, huh? 1680 x 1050 is what I use.

[Akalabeth Angel]

Stopping at 1280x1024, huh? 1680 x 1050 is what I use.

I'm just going by what's available in the launcher options. Does your launcher allow 1680x1050??? I had assumed they were all the same but maybe it depends on one's monitor and video card.

[Fury]

Yes, the launcher detects available screen resolutions and displays those fs2_open supports. Which are at least 4:3 and 16:9 resolutions.

[Akalabeth Angel]

Yes, the launcher detects available screen resolutions and displays those fs2_open supports. Which is basically 4:3 and 16:9 resolutions.

Bah.
So . . . likely it will be almost impossible to centre text in the middle of the screen for a cutscene. Erg. Ideally text should be centreable and then be able to offset from that centrepoint. That way text could be placed in relation to the centre of the screen, regardless of resolution rather than basing it from the top left of the screen. Though of course both could be useful depending upon what the FREDder intends.

Well I'll leave it a few days, hopefully a trend emerges.

[Wobble73]

Was playing 1600x1200 on my 19" CRT monitor, but as that is now dying, (suspicious pops and cracks from the rear) I have obtained a 14" LCD screen which only allows resolutions of up to 1024x768.  

[Snail]

Fields 7 and 8 in the show-subtitle SEXP center it in the screen. Maybe you could try that and see if it works?

Code: [Select]

show-subtitle
Shows a subtitle  Takes 4 to 12 arguments...
1: X position (negative value to be from right of screen)
2: Y position (negative value to be from bottom of screen)
3: Text to display
4: Time to be displayed, not including fadein/out
(optional)
5: Image name
6: Fade in time
7: Center horizontally?
8: Center vertically?
9: Width
10: Text red component (0-255)
11: Text green component (0-255)
12: Text blue component (0-255)

[General Battuta]

1680x1050.

[Macfie]

1440 X 900

[Spoon]

1680x1050 as well

Yes, the launcher detects available screen resolutions and displays those fs2_open supports. Which are at least 4:3 and 16:9 resolutions.

I have a 4:3 screen and a 16:9 screen in a dual set up. I switched the primary monitor around once and the launcher instantly gave me different resolutions to pick from.

[Qent]

1920x1200. My sister uses 1680x1050.

[Rodo]

1680x1050 ^^

[Dragon]

I'm using 1024x768, my display is capable of 1680x1050, but I rarely used it recently, mostly because of immense number of textures on Steve'o's ships.
1680x1050 is the mode I'm using for normal playing, not mod development. (don't worry about WiH final, it will be optimized, it's just not done jet)

[Thaeris]

1440 X 900

Same here. 17" notebook perhaps? 

-Thaeris

[Macfie]

1440 X 900

Same here. 17" notebook perhaps? 

-Thaeris

No LG W1952TQ monitor

[SpardaSon21]

1680x1050.

[Iranon]

1920x1200 here.

[CP5670]

2048x1536. FS2 is a game that greatly benefits from high pixel densities, due to the long viewing distances.

As for the cutscene subtitles, they did not scale at all with the resolution when I last tried them. The text looked microscopic and the positions were off. Unless something has changed, I suggest avoiding them altogether and using training messages instead.

[Aardwolf]

1000000x5821394809

no srsly, 1280x800, my laptop's native resolution

[hip63]

1680x1050