Did something change with rendering in 2.07? Projection looks...off

[kerrle]

So I play Dark Mod at 3440x1440 and have for the past couple years - the UI is stretched, but the actual in-game rendering has always looked fine.

 

But I just got everything updated to 2.07 and, since then, no matter what I do with FOV the in-game world just looks...wrong. Warped. As though the image is squishing or stretched in a fish-eye manner outside the center of the image. You see it most distinctly when standing in place and just rotating the camera left or right.

 

I couldn't say when exactly this would have been introduced; it's been probably six months since I've run through a mission. Config is, I believe, basically unchanged:

 

...

seta r_customHeight "1440"

seta r_customWidth "3440"

seta r_fullscreen "1"

seta g_fov "90"

seta r_fovRatio "2.388889"

seta r_aspectRatio "0"

...

As I said, I've tried various settings for FOV with no real luck.

It's hard to explain what it looks like; I can toss up a capture on Youtube if that'd help.

[stgatilov]

There were some configuration changes in 2.07 related to resolutions, aspect ratio and such stuff.

 

If the 3D rendering of the game itself looks stretched, please rename darkmod.cfg to darkmod_old.cfg and restart game.

After that the new darkmod.cfg file will be created, and you can copy the bind commands (that's your keyboard/mouse settings) from darkmod_old.cfg back into new darkmod.cfg.

This is what is usually called "reset darkmod.cfg" and I strongly advise you to do it.

[stgatilov]

By the way, a regular screenshot of well-known place will probably be sufficient.

[kerrle]

Letting the config recreate itself seems to have fixed it, though comparing the files no obvious difference stands out.

 

Regardless, thanks for the suggestion.

 

Also, I note the game successfully picked up my resolution (I'm guessing from the current desktop settings?) but didn't then set r_fovRatio to the correct value, leading to 4:3 rendering being stretched across the full resolution. Has setting that value programmatically when the resolution is set been considered?

[duzenko]

Has setting that value programmatically when the resolution is set been considered?

You're right of course

The problem is, there's too few developers and we're all on 16:9 screens

Being the open source community project and all, these issues should be either raised via the bug tracker or signing up for beta testing

Thank you for understanding

[stgatilov]

Also, I note the game successfully picked up my resolution (I'm guessing from the current desktop settings?) but didn't then set r_fovRatio to the correct value, leading to 4:3 rendering being stretched across the full resolution. Has setting that value programmatically when the resolution is set been considered?

I thought r_fovRatio should be kept at zero, which is the default.

 

To be honest, the set of such settings should be reduced to r_customWidth and r_customHeight only, with other settings being 0 unless player feels adventurous.

I guess we are not yet there.

[nbohr1more]

Hmm...

 

http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=Resolutions

 

r_fovRatio is supposed to override your aspect ratio setting to allow custom ratios for wide-screen (etc).

[stgatilov]

Hmm...

http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=Resolutions

r_fovRatio is supposed to override your aspect ratio setting to allow custom ratios for wide-screen (etc).

Yes, but didn't I try to streamline the whole thing recently?

It should be no longer necessary, I guess...

[nbohr1more]

Yes, I remember that.

 

And since deleting the Darkmod.cfg seems to have worked... It seems to be (working ^tm)

 

We should probably open a survey thread to see if the auto-configure feature works then alter the wiki

to reflect what we do now.

[kerrle]

It was stretched with the value set to zero; I had to manually set it to 2.38889 (or whatever) to fix it.

 

I'm actually a software developer (with OpenGL experience) in my day job. I'd be interested in helping with this stuff - I'll poke around the repo this evening.