Could one of you background making ninja's try this idea: Start with an image 790x490 (with 130x225 for covers), make your background (try to stay away from the edge a bit, the 2% gets cut for ntsc) then when your all done with the background, resize it to 640x490, then if as many pal/ntsc widescreen users could test how that works out we could have our new (and only needing 1) widescreen background standard
yes but doesnt 50Hz need to be bigger , to avoid the black band ? eg.
QUOTE(jarock @ Apr 16 2009, 09:26 PM) Here is a 50hz template for black line problem.
Based on these coords:
console_coords=40,98,350,285
covers_coords=482,135
Its widescreen 853x550.
Resize after you are finished to 640x550.
A small note: I find it's much better to add your text and button text after you have resized, as doing so before then resizing and then stretching in the loader again seems to have more blur. Now thats just my view.
Also 550 pixels seems to have a better fit for me some others 530 pixels. I would recommend doing the 550 and just keep from text running into the last 20 pixels, just the theme and colour. This way your background will be more compatible and be suitable for both.