Zoom levels
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2017 3:29 pm
Hi!
Congrats on such an awesome game.
I would like to suggest some ideas about the zoom levels available ingame, previously mentioned in FFF-204 and talked about in the corresponding forum post.
In FFF-204 it is mentioned that the zoom factor has been slighty changed in order to achieve a perfect 2:1 zoom, useful to perfectly see all the new HR graphics, however, I have been testing the zooming system, making captures and measuring pixels, and the 1:1 zoom (F9 default) seems correct to me, (the distance between 2 parallel contiguous belts is 32 pixels), however, I can't set exactly a 2:1 ratio in order to see all the HR entities pixel perfect; if I hit zoom in seven times from 1:1 zoom, the distance between identical belts is 62 pixels, ¿should not be it 64 pixels?
I think it would be useful to have a key to set the zoom level to exactly 2:1, similar to F9 to set 1:1, now that almost all entities are going to have HR graphics, and maybe the HUD could show the zoom % for a couple seconds when you use zoom in / zoom out, to see if we are playing in a "good" ratio that improves quality
Also, currently right now, there are 12 zoom-in levels below 1:1 ratio, and 13 zoom-out levels above the 1:1 ratio (26 zoom levels total), the biggest zoom seems to be 0.25 ratio, and the smallest zoom is 3.125 ratio, maybe an idea is to reduce the number of zoom levels and use only "easy" ratios, for example: 0.25 / 0.5 / 0.75 / 1 / 1.25 / 1.5 / 1.75 / 2 / 2.25 / 2.5 / 2.75 / 3
Congrats on such an awesome game.
I would like to suggest some ideas about the zoom levels available ingame, previously mentioned in FFF-204 and talked about in the corresponding forum post.
In FFF-204 it is mentioned that the zoom factor has been slighty changed in order to achieve a perfect 2:1 zoom, useful to perfectly see all the new HR graphics, however, I have been testing the zooming system, making captures and measuring pixels, and the 1:1 zoom (F9 default) seems correct to me, (the distance between 2 parallel contiguous belts is 32 pixels), however, I can't set exactly a 2:1 ratio in order to see all the HR entities pixel perfect; if I hit zoom in seven times from 1:1 zoom, the distance between identical belts is 62 pixels, ¿should not be it 64 pixels?
I think it would be useful to have a key to set the zoom level to exactly 2:1, similar to F9 to set 1:1, now that almost all entities are going to have HR graphics, and maybe the HUD could show the zoom % for a couple seconds when you use zoom in / zoom out, to see if we are playing in a "good" ratio that improves quality
Also, currently right now, there are 12 zoom-in levels below 1:1 ratio, and 13 zoom-out levels above the 1:1 ratio (26 zoom levels total), the biggest zoom seems to be 0.25 ratio, and the smallest zoom is 3.125 ratio, maybe an idea is to reduce the number of zoom levels and use only "easy" ratios, for example: 0.25 / 0.5 / 0.75 / 1 / 1.25 / 1.5 / 1.75 / 2 / 2.25 / 2.5 / 2.75 / 3