Attempt to proportionate some UI/HUD elements for widescreen 16:9 HD resolution (typically 1920x1080).
Description
My attempt to give this game a proportioned HUD/UI on 16:9 HD (1920x1080) screens, at least for some elements... Latest version co-author is dan2091 who provided more aspect-corrected textures, especially in: menus, sniper scope effect, and he added also an extra legacy logos mod.
STATUS: beta 0.9
Installation
Extract archive to "\base\" subdirectory of the game. 3 files will be extracted. Be sure in case they are the last loaded mods (rename it as "zzz_pack070...").
As the name of the files suggests they are independent modular mods:
pak070_ws_00_hud.pk4 (global 16:9 HUD base fix)
pak070_ws_01_sniper_scope.pk4 (corrects "sniper mode" and rotating HUD)
pak070_ws_02_logos.pk4 (adds legacy 3D Labs and Humanhead logos and intro)
Enjoy
NEED YOUR HELP
I need help with rotating elements when in sniper mode or in the shuttle: adjusting textures' horizontal size is no good in this case for the circular rotating textures (will look like a rotating oval shape)...
If someone knows how to achieve that please contact me, I'm not expert at modding id Tech 4 games.
Uploaded b0.9: fixed wide keys texture
Update b0.10: fixed launch screen proportions
If someone more expert in id Tech 4 games wants to contribute:
XBox 360 "sniperoverlay.gui": Paste.sh
PC "guis\weapons\sniperoverlay.gui": Paste.sh
PC version seems to ignore "forceaspectwidth" 😞
Have you tried asking around the other idTech4 games? I think there were people who managed to get overlays aspect-corrected. Otherwise try consulting dhewm3's creators as they managed to force PDA and menus to 4:3 in 16:9. I'm not too adept at this stuff either, but your mod has big potential.
I think for the other games it was enough to resize the textures to compensate stretching or changing values. This case with rotating circular textures is different...
Please, if you know other forums for idTech4 games try asking there pointing back to this. I asked around but nobody replied.
New version 0.9 beta uploaded.
Special thanks to dan2091 for his fixes.
Thanks for your efforts, it's really great to see this game getting the attention it deserves, can you please port the other languages of the HUD ? I'm using the french version of Prey and it crashes with your mod, i had to change the language to english to make it work, thanks for everything
It works fine on my Italian version of the game... It's not tight to a specific language.
Can you please try other languages (maybe french version has a different directory structure)?