Widescreen statusbars (v2401)

[NightFright]

You aren't even in widescreen mode judging from that screenshot. In that case you wouldn't need any of the statusbars from this project, TBH.

[Fluuschoen]

You aren't even in widescreen mode judging from that screenshot. In that case you wouldn't need any of the statusbars from this project, TBH.

It works just as well with 4:3, and I would need it, because I'd like to change the status bar. STARMS is buggy in wide screen as well.

[Delfino Furioso]

add "+LogFile .\path\to\file.log" to your gzdoom command line
then post the resulting file here

It's DSDA-Doom v0.24.2.

then launch dsda manually from a command prompt, adding "1> .\path\to\file.log 2>&1" at the end of the command line

[NightFright]

Looks like the mystery is solved. He is trying to use widescreen statusbar replacements with pwads that don't include an STBAR lump on their own. That means the original STARMS is used, which is the expected behavior.

I'm afraid it's not meant to work like that, m8. However, you can fix it by manually copying the proper STARMS lump into the statusbar replacement wad, if you really need it that badly.

[Fluuschoen]

Looks like the mystery is solved. He is trying to use widescreen statusbar replacements with pwads that don't include an STBAR lump on their own. That means the original STARMS is used, which is the expected behavior.

I'm afraid it's not meant to work like that, m8. However, you can fix it by manually copying the proper STARMS lump into the statusbar replacement wad, if you really need it that badly.

Yup, already did that, and it works!

Yay!

Sorry, didn't know that STARMS is seperate from STBAR, hence I thought it's some kind of bug, and this is why I also didn't specifiy that I'd like to use it with all WADs, that have the original STBAR.

[VoanHead]

I hope it's not much of a bother to suggest having another widescreen status bar to be added to that big folder: a WinXP styled Status Bar.

Here's a download link for it if you want to check it out, too: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9zqfhi9d39xbj ... P.wad?dl=0

[NightFright]

Is that one part of any real PWAD or it's a standalone release (just the statusbar)? If so, it's pretty difficult to create without a source image (I am aware this is based on the official WinXP wallpaper, but finding the exact cropping dimensions/settings used for this might be quite hard).

It would help to contact the author for that info.

[Coincident]

Hello! I recently downloaded the latest version of this project from GITHUB, and I'm having an issue with doom_wide.wad.
It looks like the status bar is a few pixels shorter than full widescreen, which in dsda-doom (v0.25.6), causes there to be a hall of mirrors effect on both corners of the screen.

Those pixels stay red after you've taken damage; yellow after you've picked up items; etc.
I tried a few other wide status bars for custom pwads, but only doom_wide.wad seems to have this problem.

[NightFright]

That's odd. The statusbar has the proper dimensions (426x32), like all the others. Did you try ultrawide statusbars instead? They end with "_uwide" in their file name. If you load another with "_wide" and it shows the same issue, then it might be a problem with the port.

After a quick test, it seems indeed as if the statusbar is missing one pixel on each side in widescreen. It would probably have to be 428x32 instead. However, since other ports display this correctly, I would assume DSDA is doing something differently here. I am using the dimensions from widescreen graphics provided with the Doom Unity port.

[Rox_Sox]

Noticed videos online of nobody using a widescreen hud for Haste.wad. So I decided to give a crack at making one myself.

First time doing something like this so I'm not sure if I did it correctly, but I tested it in both GZDoom and DSDA-Doom with Haste.wad and it worked.

[NightFright]

Changelog:
- Added: Arrokoth, Atonement, Cydonia, Harmony (Re-Release), Hell on Earth Shareware, Herian 1+2 (wide), Knee-Deep in Knee-Deep in ZDoom, Lunacy, Machete, TNT Goes Boom!, Ultimate Doom in Name Only
- Updated: Memento Mori II (replaced MAPINFO with wrong level names with DEHACKED)

[Coincident]

That's odd. The statusbar has the proper dimensions (426x32), like all the others. Did you try ultrawide statusbars instead? They end with "_uwide" in their file name. If you load another with "_wide" and it shows the same issue, then it might be a problem with the port.

After a quick test, it seems indeed as if the statusbar is missing one pixel on each side in widescreen. It would probably have to be 428x32 instead. However, since other ports display this correctly, I would assume DSDA is doing something differently here. I am using the dimensions from widescreen graphics provided with the Doom Unity port.

I apologize for the late reply. I solved the problem on my end by asking a friend for a fixed version of doom_wide.wad that was 428x32, and used that instead.
It seems that newer versions of dsda-doom no longer have the hall of mirrors effect I posted above, so the pixels no longer get red / yellow.
But the missing pixels are still there, only they're just permanently black, which is harder to notice. The doom_wide status bar from the Unity port is indeed 2 pixels short.

Basic steps:

I. Image preparation
- Create a new image with 426x32 pixels [Unity port format]

If it's not too much to ask, can you edit this old post? The "426" needs to be replaced with "428" because currently these instructions are misleading.
I was just trying to create a wide statusbar version for a pwad that is not yet supported, and I ran into the same problem I had months ago: 1 missing row of pixels on each side. The status bar I created was too short.

Happy new year by the way!

[Coincident]

Widescreen status bar for Cosmogenesis by NoReason: https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/1 ... slaughter/
Tested with the latest versions of GZDoom and dsda-doom.

Is it ok to post the file here as an attachment or should I submit a pull request?

[NightFright]

The measures of 426px are correct (or at least tolerable), but only if you are using 400p as target resolution. In the future, I will probably optimize my statusbar images to have a width of 576px, which would make them compatible with aspect rations of up to 21:10. I won't be able to apply these changes retroactively to all entries in my collection, but Trov has done that already in his ultrawide branch, anyway.

Note:
The Github dev build now has an ultrawide version of the original Doom statusbar, based on Trov's release.

[NightFright]

Changelog:
- Added: Ad Mortem, Back to Saturn X Ep.3, Doom 2 Minus Doom, Doom Classic Redux, DBP13: Alien Bastards!, Emergency Christmas (= H2H-Xmas), Headless Chicken, Hell's Bane, Jamal Jones Ep.1, Nostalgia 2, Realm of Chaos 25th Anniversary
- Updated: Doom (ultrawide version), H2H-Xmas (cleaned up)

Note:
From now on, all new statusbars will have a width of 576px (instead of 426px) for ultra-widescreen (21:9) compatibility.