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Re: RII - Resolution Independent Interface[message #205457] Sat, 03 January 2009 16:08 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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When you resize down it can work relatively well if the resize isn't that large (say 1600x1200 down to 1280x960).
The problem with resizing is this. Imagine you want to determine the color for a pixel in the new (resized) image. You would have to consider the pixel values of the according pixels in the old image. For the sake of simplicity let's say these are only two pixels and that we have to take the average value/color of these pixels. In paletted images the pixel values are indices to the palette. So when take the average of two old pixels
 0.5 * value(P1) + 0.5 * value(P1), value(P1)=10, value(P2)=17
       LightRed          DarkRed
we get a new value
 = 27/2 = 13.5 = 13
that may have a completely different color (like yellow).

When we compute rgb values first and then interpolate then, the result may be a color that was not in the palette before. And if we are unlucky we get a new color for every new pixel and eventually run out of free places in the palette (if there were any at all).

So there is much work to do it right for very questionable results. An image processing program can do it much better. So, why not just load a well (pre)made image.

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but it would have been nice to just make some really good Hi-Res stuff and reduce the size ingame (like done with most game interfaces now).

Most game interfaces use actual rgb images that can be scaled reasonably well.

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Oh and if you could remove the overlap from the different STI's from the current interfaces that would be helpful as currently there is overlap that make's integrated camo and other effects really hard to line up.
Hmm, .. what? Do you have screenshots?

BTW, did anyone looked into the XML files and tried to modify them?

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