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Widescreen format...
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Okay, I''m looking at the possibility of including a widescreen (letter box, movie style, whatever you want to call it) mode for an app, but what is the standard height & width? Is the fov any different?
Morgan
I could be wrong, or there might be more than one, but I think that the ratio( or one of them)is 16:9
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Yeah, 16:9 is a common standard.
I think there are three widely used standards.
NTSC (4:3, common american TV)
PAL (not sure, I think it is 16:9. Mostly in Europe)
And a specific format used exclusively in France.
Only for cultural purpose. Use 16:9, it will be fine
EL
I think there are three widely used standards.
NTSC (4:3, common american TV)
PAL (not sure, I think it is 16:9. Mostly in Europe)
And a specific format used exclusively in France.
Only for cultural purpose. Use 16:9, it will be fine
EL
most of my widescreen movies are around 2.1-2.35:1. according to trueSpace, the ntsc standard letterbox resolution is 736x398. you could probably scale that to 800x? or 1024x? rather easily, if you wanted to.
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Thanks everybody! I''ve been guessing up until now, but 736x398 does look right.
Morgan
Morgan
16:9 is the mode used in Goldeneye and Perfect Dark for the N64... So I would assume that 16:9 is right....
736x398 is nearly 16:9 (16.64:9), so 16:9 is the way to go.
736x398 really are strange resolutions for a monitor, though, so I''d choose 800x600 with two 75-pixel heigh black stripes for a 800x450 resolution.
EL
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736x398 really are strange resolutions for a monitor, though, so I''d choose 800x600 with two 75-pixel heigh black stripes for a 800x450 resolution.
EL
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