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Originally Posted by Wenai
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No. We cannot choose 1920x1080 as the minimum resolution. People using a laptop with integrated graphics are probably sitting at approx 1280x720. UI assets sized for 1080p would be basically unusable. We ran into this when sizing the tracking window. Some wanted it to be 1000px tall, but at 720p it would get cut off. We ended up making it 600pixels so that it could fit comfortably at 720p.
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Now we understand part of the problem. You are basing decisions on a resolution used by LESS THAN ONE PERCENT of PC gamers. The current steam hardware survey results are below I understand this is not a 100% correlation to p99 users, but it's probably the closest thing you can get.
Even understanding that 11.63% of people are at 1366x768 (modern low end laptop), you can not ignore the 80% of people that are going to have a poorer experience here. We are forced to use a UI designed for 800x600 and it's a problem.
If the projects goal is "add some textures to the UI, we don't really care about a classic ui scale and user experience though". Great job. You're on the right track. Keep ignoring everyone who is having a bad time.
If the projects goal is "recreate classic eq feel" then I think having a semblance of proper UI scale would be important, and as a bonus would give most people an interface that is much easier for them to use.
I understand this is hard, and that the best fix probably involves having multiple versions of the UI(different scales). But considering
even the lowest common demoninator is using a higher resolution than this velious UI was designed for, some degree of scaling is necessary even if there is only 1 version of the UI.
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