EPTIs BW HD possible? - Page 4
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Garmer
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0neder
United States3733 Posts
On March 06 2012 12:57 LightAngels wrote: If we scale up the resolution, it will ruin the game. The best part of BW is that you don't have a high resolution UI like SCII Do you really believe what you just said? I think the best part is the underlying game. | ||
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Sahasrahla
Germany22 Posts
Using a higher resolution is possible already as demonstrated by at least one mod. Lets skip this discussion with all its balancing and style aspects. Making a real High-Res BW with larger and more datailed sprites is an interesting idea, but it will take a lot of effort that might not be worth the outcome. I see two major issues that would need to be solved: 1.) the sprites It is not possible to blow up the original sprites in a way that they look good. They can be upscaled to prevent a pixelated look. Thats it. But not more. Your monitors are doing this already by hardware while you are playing BW. You can not recover image information that does not exist. If you think so... believe me... CSI is jerking around with you. Math is stronger than this stupid series. So there are basically two ways to solve this issue. For certain the StarCraft sprites have not been painted from scratch. They are screen captures of animated 3D models. So the easiest way - but only from a technical point of view - is to ask Blizzard to provide these original models to capture them in higher resolution. Let´s asume that this will never happen... The other way would be to create new models for all units, building, etc... interesting project for a 3D designer... but this will take man-years. 2.) the engine The StarCraft engine is based on a lot of hard-coded values. Some are tile-based, some are pixel-based. Believe me... you don´t want to mess arround with these. You would have to butcher the game memory to solve all this problems. Starcraft modding can achieve a lot, but fucking around with the most fundamental engine properties is realy tough. Creating the game from scratch will be less work for sure. Regards, Sahasrahla | ||
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craz3d
Bulgaria856 Posts
On March 06 2012 13:59 LightAngels wrote: Its much harder to play with the old UI, and people enjoy BW that way He wants to make the graphics better... this has nothing to do with the UI. | ||
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Skwid1g
United States953 Posts
But I don't think you'd be able to do this with BW and even if so, I doubt it'd actually be of any use. Interesting project nonetheless though. | ||
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G_G
Canada178 Posts
BW HD! - WC3 level of B.Net competance - SC2 level of editor amazingness - So true to the original gameplay engine that you can load up saved games, custom maps, and replays from the original and they work in BW HD - LAN - Watch replays online with others - Wide screen support, with option to force 4:3 without it stretching - $15 for the original and the HD version as a package deal on Battle.net | ||
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