Posts from Heroes 5 – by Azmadon (Izmail).

For example, you could redesign the Necropolis’s skeleton production building into a Lich production building!

I noticed that there is no white background in the display on the map. But it is still "blue"... Why?
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Brrr, it's scary to imagine what will happen to the garrisons on my favorite map X)

This might explain why Ganyshka doesn't have any background issues. His image was resized after the background was removed, but the last two "sufferers" were already the right size.
So, it turns out you need to stretch them first, then reduce them? That's when the quality will definitely suffer.

There! Much better now!

Is there something wrong with the aspect ratio, or are the screenshots being compressed?

Maybe it's just because I'm playing with the initial expansion that makes it fullscreen. In my opinion, this corresponds more closely to the concept of "Normal."
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Perhaps the issue lies in the initial expansion pack I'm playing. That is, playing in fullscreen.
I believe this aligns more with the concept of "Normal."

If the horizontal stretching doesn't bother you, then yes.

Yeah, that's what I mean. It's an old game, and I remember that you need to do some tricks to play it on a widescreen.
Take a look, but I would try to fix it if possible, because that way the result of modding will be better. Otherwise, your icons should be square, but during testing, you see them as rectangles, which means they don't look the way your users will see them.
But overall, good job, good luck.

it's a matter of habit. you know, if you play like that for several years without paying attention, you won't even notice it. But those black bars on the sides of the screen – you'll notice those right away!
So, the question is, which way is more comfortable to play? 😅

It’s probably more comfortable to play when everything is displayed correctly, like in the screenshot below. I don’t understand what those “bands” are about.

the screenshot doesn't capture them properly; otherwise, in my "correct" version, I get a game image with black rectangles on the sides.
if you reconstruct it, it looks approximately like this:
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by the way, my screenshot from your example is actually in the "incorrect" aspect ratio because I only made the last one in the "correct" one. 🤔

Your last screenshot is stretched. It shouldn't be. This reminds me that you have an HD screen, but the game itself is 1024x768.