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4:3 aspect ratio tidy-up
4:3 was a bit cluttered together, both in Regular and Marathon mode. This commit aims to tidy it up a bit.
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Can you highlight the main differences? All I can tell is that you added some spacing on the left edge?
Sure (the changes were made specifically for 4:3 support and don't modify widescreen aspect ratios)
- Resized Banner, DensityGraph, and StepArtist displays (Made them smaller so they could better fit)
- Moved each of the above further to the right
- Reduced the size of the text in PaneDisplay and repositioned each of the columns (Were previously close to the edge and size was large making it cluttered on the display)
- Resized coursemode display and realigned.
- Resized groovestats loading icon and moved to a visible location (In between banner and musicwheel)
Reduced the size of the text in PaneDisplay
This part can be tricky.
The local text_zoom = WideScale(0.8, 0.9) that I used in PaneDisplay.lua was based on my decision to support stock monitors from traditional DDR cabs, which (if I understand correctly) run at 640x240 @ 15khz refresh, interlaced to give the appearance of what we'd think of as 640x480.
It's tricky because I don't think LCD screens (or even photographs) can properly simulate what 240i really looks like, which made first-hand testing impossible without the hardware. By having back-and-forth discussions with community members who had that hardware, I arrived at the fuzzy understanding that SL's Miso glyphs couldn't be zoomed any smaller than 0.8 without introducing legibility issues.
For example, the list of player modifiers and stepartist text on ScreenEvaluation are both hardcoded to 0.7 zoom, and both are difficult to read in this photo:
With regard to stock DDR cab monitors, I treated each SL screen as a conscious design decision and asked, "how important is it that this text be legible?" If it was important be legible, I didn't go under 0.8 zoom, based on the Miso glyphs in SL at that time.
I understand the glyphs themselves have changed since then, and that the goals/targeted hardware to support may also have changed. But, this was my reasoning for font zooms back then. :)
