Hibernatus-zoom grassing issues

[anonymous32]

I am firing up Elma now for the first time in a long while.

I am encountering graphical problems on the fifth level: desiring to preserve the original aesthetic experience, I have doubled the resolution to 1280x960, using "2.00" as the zoom value -- that way, the background sky is almost placed as it should, which is great.

Problems started upon entering the fifth level, in which I noticed the grass is starting up way further than originally intended.

Would there be any way for output to be doubled up from 640x480 so as to fill up most of a modern 1080p screen, although preserving the intended aesthetic experience?

EDIT: an ultra-compatible wrapper program that would intercept DirectX calls, then double-scale and feed back each frame through some sort of decent algorithm -- feasible?

[Lousku]

Now, here's the sort of high details faggotry I can stand for!

[anonymous32]

Now, here's the sort of high-details faggotry I can stand for!

This is the kind of support I appreciate.

retro: http://i.imgur.com/evBjK.png
current: http://i.imgur.com/pT8XG.png


EDIT: another, perhaps more-feasible, solution proposal, outside of having to tinker with the graphics layer:

- crafting a bigger-textures LGR suited for integer-factor scaling (which serves to avoid artifacts introduction) -- that is, for the "1280x960" modern resolution;

[anonymous32]

I have been fiddling with this for the past hours, and unfortunately it seems the LGR-crafting route is unviable -- I have been rescaling every texture and grass picture manually (through GIMP), but the end result does not solve the zoom problem, grass still being buried beneath starting uphill-battle bricks.

[Lousku]

Grass works in mysterious ways. There's probably nothing you can do to make it appear precisely the same as it originally looked. :/

[abruzzi]

Nevertheless it must be challenging to explore such nuisances, I'm glad that we have a person here that is interested in these things. I don't know a thing on this topic unfortunately, but wish you see the light in the tunnel. Also might ask domi. Just to refresh: http://trivia.idiaths.ru/

[anonymous32]

Grass works in mysterious ways. There's probably nothing you can do to make it appear precisely the same as it originally looked. :/

Short of having someone interested enough to hack in some fix to the Hibernatus code (for this long-time-unremarked bug to be hacked out).

[Lousku]

Grass works in mysterious ways. There's probably nothing you can do to make it appear precisely the same as it originally looked. :/

Short of having someone interested enough to hack in some fix to the Hibernatus code (for this long-time-unremarked bug to be hacked out).

It might have more to do with how grass works. You could test this by making a bigger version of the level with the same aspect ratio including grass polygons...

[anonymous32]

I have found a solution: stopping worrying, and playing at original resolution, with surrounding black bars.

EDIT: operating-system virtualization; enhancement-request ticket; integer-factor scaling: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10852