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Guys, please tell me, is it possible to set the resolution to 1280x1024 in Heroes 3?
Posts from Heroes III in high resolution!
ewgeniy
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As far as I understand, no. You can run them in windowed mode at any resolution, but the window itself will be 800x600.
Но поскольку я нищий,
у меня лишь есть мечты.
Я разостлал свои мечты пред вашими ногами.
Ступайте бережно, ибо вы ступаете по моим мечтам.
DARK_DRAGON
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Yes, it’s a drawback that you can’t change the image settings in Heroes.
Одна древняя легенда гласит,
Что темный дракон весь мир покорит,
Темный дракон - безликая тень,
Теперь навсегда ночь сменит день.
Он свергнет всех местных Богов,
Ни сила, ни воля не сдержат его.
Рыцарь, король - все одно для него,
С ним в битве исчезнет и зло, и добро.
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Что темный дракон весь мир покорит,
Темный дракон - безликая тень,
Теперь навсегда ночь сменит день.
Он свергнет всех местных Богов,
Ни сила, ни воля не сдержат его.
Рыцарь, король - все одно для него,
С ним в битве исчезнет и зло, и добро.
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this isn't a drawback; it's a harsh reality.
Ten years have passed, and yet we all continue to play them.
The graphics themselves were designed for an 800x600 resolution. In other resolutions, it gets stretched.
Ten years have passed, and yet we all continue to play them.
The graphics themselves were designed for an 800x600 resolution. In other resolutions, it gets stretched.
ewgeniy
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It stretches in other resolutions.
Но поскольку я нищий,
у меня лишь есть мечты.
Я разостлал свои мечты пред вашими ногами.
Ступайте бережно, ибо вы ступаете по моим мечтам.
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Well, 800x600 is a 4:3 aspect ratio, so you can increase the resolution while maintaining this proportion, and nothing will be stretched. It's just that the game is designed in such a way that the resolution is constant... Regarding the program - it is undoubtedly useful, but I set it to 16-bit, and I don't notice any difference.
Do you know what resolution is? If you stretch from 800x600 to 1024x768, what will happen? On a CRT monitor, there will be more pixels, and on an LCD monitor, several pixels will have to act as one, and the image will blur.
I may not have expressed myself correctly, but it is impossible to improve the picture in any way.
It's not very enjoyable to look at pixels the size of peas.
Many modern programs have special icons for a color depth of 32 bits. And the difference is actually quite noticeable.
DARK_DRAGON
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How can it not stretch? It will stretch.
Do you know what resolution is? If you stretch from 800x600 to 1024x768, what will happen? On a CRT monitor, there will be more pixels, and on an LCD, several pixels will have to act as one, and the image will blur.
I may not have expressed myself correctly, but it will not be possible to improve the picture in any way.
It's not very enjoyable to look at pixels the size of peas.
Regarding the program - it is undoubtedly useful, but I set mine to 16 bits, and I don't notice any difference.
Here is the archive; there are 2 shortcuts. Switch from 32 to 16, and you will see the difference.
Одна древняя легенда гласит,
Что темный дракон весь мир покорит,
Темный дракон - безликая тень,
Теперь навсегда ночь сменит день.
Он свергнет всех местных Богов,
Ни сила, ни воля не сдержат его.
Рыцарь, король - все одно для него,
С ним в битве исчезнет и зло, и добро.
.
Что темный дракон весь мир покорит,
Темный дракон - безликая тень,
Теперь навсегда ночь сменит день.
Он свергнет всех местных Богов,
Ни сила, ни воля не сдержат его.
Рыцарь, король - все одно для него,
С ним в битве исчезнет и зло, и добро.
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yes, but the pixels will be huge. I mainly play on a laptop, and my native resolution is 1280x800. It's impossible to play in fullscreen mode; my eyes hurt when I try to read the text.
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Guys, can you tell me how to play this wonderful game with a resolution of 1024x768, or at least 1280x1024 or 1280x800? The standard 800x600 doesn't look good on a 19" monitor with a large dot pitch. :smile41:
SandroXXL
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Apparently, there is no way to do that. There are no such mods, and the game's interface is designed only for an 800x600 resolution.
Просто еще один
AlexSpl
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2prain: Play in windowed mode. As I understand it, you have a full-size monitor, so in full-screen mode, besides everything else, the image will be slightly stretched vertically. (800x600 - 4:3, 1280x1024 - 5:4)
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I recently came across games like Duke Nukem 3D and Doom II, games from 1995 (originally they ran at 800x600 or even 640x480 and took up 10-15 MB). I downloaded them and was amazed; they supported VERY high resolutions, and the graphics didn't degrade; it was exactly the same as in the original, only at 1024x768 and higher. So, it's possible that there are also Heroes III :smile13: versions out there that have been updated, but I'm tired of searching.
Kluka
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I'm sure that such a version of Heroes III doesn't exist, because for this, the game would have to be almost completely remade.
The difference in graphics from the Doom II you mentioned is as follows:
Doom II contains wall textures, after which, at any resolution, it performs its transformation according to the principles of constructing a three-dimensional image.
In Heroes, the situation is fundamentally different. If you unzip the \data\h3bitmap.lod file (there is a topic about this on this forum), you will see that all the images displayed in the game (from background images with buttons to player flags, images of buildings in castles, etc.) are all ordinary bmp files that are displayed by the program without distortion.
Even if we assume that there is a file that contains the coordinates of the displayed objects, the formulas for transforming from the cell number to the window coordinates, etc., then to meaningfully change the resolution, you would have to redraw all the graphics, and in my opinion, this is more difficult than rewriting all the other components of the game.
Wlk777
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I recently came across games like Duke Nukem 3D and DooM II, games from 1995 (originally they ran at 800x600, or even 640x480 and took up 10-15 MB). I downloaded them and was amazed; they supported VERY high resolutions, and the graphics didn't degrade; it was exactly the same as in the original, only at 1024x768 and higher.
So, it's possible that there are also Heroes III :smile13: versions that have been reworked, but I'm tired of searching.
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I'm sure that such a version of Heroes III doesn't exist, because for that, the game would have to be almost completely remade.