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Playing Starcraft in Higher Resolution?

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jra64
Profile Joined November 2008
United States104 Posts
December 15 2008 03:13 GMT
#1


Wondering if it was possible. It looks like that's what happened at 3:07 of this video. Anybody know how this shot was taken? I thought playing Starcraft at a higher resolution wasn't possible.
-jra64
Jyvblamo
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada13788 Posts
December 15 2008 03:14 GMT
#2
I think they spliced together 4 different shots in that video, and no, I'm pretty sure it's impossible to play SC in a higher resolution, or everyone would know about it. =P
PH
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States6173 Posts
December 15 2008 09:37 GMT
#3
That's a pretty awesome effect, though. That would make observing at offline events sooo much cooler if they threw in shots like that every now and then...

To answer your question, no, SC can't be played at any resolution other than it's standard tiny size.
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Highways
Profile Joined July 2005
Australia6111 Posts
December 15 2008 09:56 GMT
#4
Playing in higher resolution is too noob friendly though.:p
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IzzyCraft
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States4487 Posts
December 15 2008 10:15 GMT
#5
Lol well you could in theory make it bigger but your account would get banned so fast on bnet for having a heavily moded sc dlls etc. Also it would make alot more space for everything like your bottom half would be fucked up etc. I assume it is possible because it's just sprites that can be stretched and scaled also there used to be d2 stuff like that for like 1280x1024 sizes etc but the ui was so fucked up on those mods.
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Kentor *
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States5784 Posts
December 15 2008 10:17 GMT
#6
On December 15 2008 12:14 Jyvblamo wrote:
I think they spliced together 4 different shots in that video, and no, I'm pretty sure it's impossible to play SC in a higher resolution, or everyone would know about it. =P

awesome idea
distant_voice
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
Germany2521 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-12-15 10:22:06
December 15 2008 10:21 GMT
#7
what would be interesting is if someone could modify the windowed mode plugin for chaoslauncher so that the window has a 800x600 or a 1024x768 solution.

the effect in the video is awesome. must've been a lot of work to put that together.
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zobz
Profile Joined November 2005
Canada2175 Posts
December 15 2008 10:55 GMT
#8
I used to take lots of screenshots of the same instance of a replay and splice them when i was more newblier. It was fun. Alot of those massive pictures were of games of me vs computer though. I'm quite sure i have one of the climax of a classic nada replay involving a large scale carrier vs battlecruiser confrontation on lt. I always wanted to take a giant picture of the whole map in an on-going game like those map previews you see, and poster it on my wall or something.
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jra64
Profile Joined November 2008
United States104 Posts
December 15 2008 14:45 GMT
#9
Woah, it's probably way harder to take tons of screenshots of a replay at the exact same moment in time as opposed to taking them with video and just syncing the frames.
-jra64
Zoler
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Sweden6339 Posts
December 15 2008 14:52 GMT
#10


its like this one at 0:34

Boxer ftw btw
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Shadowfury333
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Canada314 Posts
December 15 2008 22:51 GMT
#11
On December 15 2008 23:45 jra64 wrote:
Woah, it's probably way harder to take tons of screenshots of a replay at the exact same moment in time as opposed to taking them with video and just syncing the frames.


Replays can be paused, so I doubt it would be too hard.
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niteReloaded
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Croatia5282 Posts
December 15 2008 23:19 GMT
#12
On December 15 2008 23:52 Zoler wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuSOvG-eGmU

its like this one at 0:34

Boxer ftw btw

whoooooaa this one is goood
R3condite
Profile Joined August 2008
Korea (South)1541 Posts
December 15 2008 23:22 GMT
#13
On December 15 2008 19:21 distant_voice wrote:
what would be interesting is if someone could modify the windowed mode plugin for chaoslauncher so that the window has a 800x600 or a 1024x768 solution.

the effect in the video is awesome. must've been a lot of work to put that together.


it's hard to make resolution better.. because u r creating pixels that were never there... so u don't noe where and wat to add there

i don't think it's possible unless blizzard does it... if some1 else does it it'll be their depiction of wat high resolution of a dark templar or something like should look like...
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DeathByMonkeys
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States742 Posts
December 15 2008 23:59 GMT
#14
On December 15 2008 23:52 Zoler wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuSOvG-eGmU

its like this one at 0:34

Boxer ftw btw


Little off-topic... but that Boxer vid is so damn epic. God damn he was so innovative, with the skills to back it up.
Shadowfury333
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Canada314 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-12-16 00:12:00
December 16 2008 00:11 GMT
#15
On December 16 2008 08:22 R3condite wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 15 2008 19:21 distant_voice wrote:
what would be interesting is if someone could modify the windowed mode plugin for chaoslauncher so that the window has a 800x600 or a 1024x768 solution.

the effect in the video is awesome. must've been a lot of work to put that together.


it's hard to make resolution better.. because u r creating pixels that were never there... so u don't noe where and wat to add there

i don't think it's possible unless blizzard does it... if some1 else does it it'll be their depiction of wat high resolution of a dark templar or something like should look like...


Doing it would involve pulling more map and sprite data from the RAM to the main screen. While 2D games don't quite work like 3D games, in that they don't have a camera so free movement around the place isn't possible, they do have the map data buffered in RAM, where the visible sections are taken from RAM and drawn on the screen. I imagine a 3rd-party tool to make it work would be similar to a maphack, but instead of changing visibility information, it changes how many pixels of the map are drawn at a time.

TL;DR version: The data is all there, it is just a matter of drawing it to the screen.
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capek
Profile Joined September 2008
United States585 Posts
December 16 2008 01:21 GMT
#16
On December 15 2008 23:52 Zoler wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuSOvG-eGmU

its like this one at 0:34

Boxer ftw btw

Probably one of the best boxer videos ever.
Possibly the greatest SC:BW highlight video ever.
yoshtodd
Profile Blog Joined October 2004
United States418 Posts
December 16 2008 04:59 GMT
#17
Man I miss watching Boxer play. He will always be the Emperor.
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Phyre
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States1288 Posts
December 16 2008 05:18 GMT
#18
They made Street Fighter HD, I wish SC would get similar treatment one day.
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Boblion
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
France8043 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-12-16 05:30:23
December 16 2008 05:29 GMT
#19
On December 16 2008 14:18 Phyre wrote:
They made Street Fighter HD, I wish SC would get similar treatment one day.

This + a good map editor + some unit AI corrections and a bit better pathfiding would be better than SC2 imo.

edit: oh and custom hotkeys + apm live and lan latency.
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thunk
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States6233 Posts
December 16 2008 05:33 GMT
#20
On December 15 2008 18:37 PH wrote:
That's a pretty awesome effect, though. That would make observing at offline events sooo much cooler if they threw in shots like that every now and then...

To answer your question, no, SC can't be played at any resolution other than it's standard tiny size.


They can't, because it requires 4 different streams or so and really good synchronization of those 4 (or so streams). It'd be impossible to setup before the action is gone.
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