What is Median XL: Sigma

[whist]

Out of curiosity, is the 1024x768 res lock something to do with monster detection?

Not only that. I went with 1024x768 for a few reasons.

• Not everyone has big monitors
• AI are totally not meant to support a resolution too high
• The GUI would too look empty because you don't have enough stuff to fill them up (patching the gaps with big ass border is just as ugly)
• Bigger file size (bigger GUI everywhere, results in bigger file size)
• Bigger resolution means more stuff on the screen being drawn and therefore increasing the lag/overflows (on a game that could barely keep it up in 800x600)
• The worldmap becomes so ugly because you totally see outside of levels and see big black zones you aren't meant to see (in 1024x768 it isn't that bad)

etc.

[iwansquall]

tbh, im hoping for widescreen resolution at least which is 720p, but i guess 4:3 higher resolution than base is better than nothing.

widescreen now have become standard and black bar at side made it worse (ppl used stretched screen even more worse..)

[Professor-Zoom]

i was seeing this other mod and there is just 2 resolutions 1280x768 and 1024x768 and is i dont think is get ugly.

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but today most of the screens are wide and in my humble opinion 4:3 left thet ugly black coluns like tv show fron the 90s

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just think more about it plz

[whist]

just think more about it plz

There's absolutely no chance I'm redoing all the GUI code again to change the resolution

[Dude Love]

It does seem more complicated than it's worth, the more that I think about it

I'd take black bars over that ugly ass gui lmao

[Professor-Zoom]

perhaps in a future updating

[Strigvir]

Why the fuck people have problems with pillar-boxing? I bet you are the kind of people who think it's possible to shove rectangle into a square, and vise versa, without losing proportions, and is a-okay with distorted 4:3 video on a 16:9 screen as long as it's not "those ugly black bars".

[Food]

They were proposing to make the GUI in 16:9 aspect ratio, not to stretch the current (and future) 4:3 one.

As multires demonstrates, diablo can run fine in 16:9, if the GUI supports it. To solve this, multires resized the borders around GUI windows, but whist dropped support for them in sigma to simplify his work.

[void]

The increased vision of monsters will hopefully make crowd farming even easier.
Think starting a new game with some AoE like Sunstrike and having lots of monsters instantly follow you to get to lvl 5 in just a few attacks. Lovely.

[Quirinus]

you can just make your screen add black bars to the sides, so it doesn't stretch the video