How to get black bars on the sides?

How to get black bars on the sides? "Like on games with 4:3 ratio without widescreen support"

Duke of Hazzard

#1 Posted 07 May 2014 - 10:40 PM

I like to play with the HUD bar as it makes it easier to check the ammo for various weapons, but the problem is that, in EDuke32, the bar is cut on the sides when using a widescreen resolution. I figure a fix for this would be to add the black bars to the sides of the screen and run it as if it was a 4:3 display, but I haven't seen an option in the EDuke32 menu to do that. At least, out of the ones I've tried, none did it.

So, is it possible to do it? Would also fix the weapons like RPG and Freezer being way too much to the side of the screen.

Hendricks266

Weaponized Autism

#2 Posted 07 May 2014 - 11:17 PM

EDuke32's widescreen is perfect Horiz+, so your reasons for wanting a pillarboxed mode don't make much sense. Try pressing [+] one time at your current HUD setting. This will overlay the status bar on the weapon like the mini status bars. Then, shrink the "status bar scale" setting. Bam.

Throw this patch in autoload. If you don't have any loose eduke.con or duke3d.def files, it will add Jimmy's widescreen tiles from Megaton and remove the "align to the right side of the screen" HUD bits. (Incompatible with HRP.) http://hendricks266....een_weapons.zip

Duke of Hazzard

#3 Posted 09 May 2014 - 06:31 PM

Sorry Hendricks, I'm a bit late.

You're right, EDuke32's widescreen is perfect, so pillarboxing the screen would be redundant.

What I wanted is to stretch the HUD bar to cover the whole screen, but considering EDuke32 is compatible with widescreen, it would look horrible...

And thanks for the patch!

mono20

#4 Posted 11 August 2015 - 04:07 AM

Hendricks266, on 07 May 2014 - 11:17 PM, said:

Throw this patch in autoload. If you don't have any loose eduke.con or duke3d.def files, it will add Jimmy's widescreen tiles from Megaton and remove the "align to the right side of the screen" HUD bits. (Incompatible with HRP.) http://hendricks266....een_weapons.zip

Sounds great but I can't get the patch running even in a clean installation. Is it just me or is there anything wrong with it?

Hendricks266

Weaponized Autism

#5 Posted 11 August 2015 - 09:31 AM

Do you not have autoload enabled in the startup window?

mono20

#6 Posted 12 August 2015 - 06:51 AM

Autoload is enabled. Sorry I didn't mention it.

Edit: I just renamed the autoload folder to addons and enabled that one in the startup menu. This works.