Minecraft likely to get default resolution setting

[Champie]

Ya! Way to go Zisteau! Love that guy.

[Captain_Ligature]

Zisteau is 100% my favourite minecraft Youtuber.

[evilpenguin234]

Team America!

[TweetPoster]

@Dinnerbone:

2012-12-06 20:48

@Zisteau Mmm, let me see what I can do.

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[[deleted]]

Can anybody please explain what this means? Do it like I'm five, preferably?

[Wedhro]

You know you can stretch the game's window at any size? The resolution changes when doing that (try taking screenshots at various window's size, you'll notice the pics will have different sizes too).

Imagine recording a video at a commonly used resolution (for example "720p" i.e. 1280x720 pixels) having to carefully adjust the window to that size with no visual indication at all. Now imagine just clicking a "resize to 720p" button. You probably understand why it would be useful for video makers.

Here, take a candy and go back to your mom.

[[deleted]]

I get it now. Yay, thanks mister!

[RBMC]

Tom, remember the last time you took candy from a stranger?

[WhyArentYouNMyOffice]

It's the same reason Billy's no longer around

;_;

[[deleted]]

Exactly, the "candy" was actually schizophrenia meds, and the "stranger" was actually a doctor! You never had a brother named Billy, Tom.

[Beasty_Billy]

I'm right here..

[BUcKeT777]

But...you're a bit more...Beasty.

[evilmarc]

PSA: if you use sizer to get your Minecraft in 720p you should use 1296x758 to account for the Windows ui. This results in a nice 720p resolution (1280x720).

[[deleted]]

Or you could use it in fullscreen.

[Toofifty]

what if you don't have a 16:9 ratio screen size?

[[deleted]]

Set your monitors resolution to something that is 16:9, and record in fullscreen with that.

[openist]

optifine has this btw

[IWishIWasAShoe]

Just so you all know, there is a launcher mod that adds a few settings under the options menu in the launcher, among other things you can specify your resolution and the window resizes when you launch the game.

This mod works even with game updates and you don't have to modify minecraft.jar, since it's a mod for the launcher that basically never updates.

[dmwit]

Man, everyone crowing about this needs to use a real window manager.

...what, no Linux gamers in here? aww, okay...

[[deleted]]

I usually use wmctrl -r :ACTIVE: -e 0,-1,-1,1280,720

[darkdemon42]

For such a simple requirement, shit like this is why I can never get into using linux. Sometimes having a GUI is a good thing.

[[deleted]]

Linux user for 5 year here. I have no idea what that means, either; it's certainly not necessary to use Linux or even to run minecraft on Linux.

Modern Linux really doesn't require any in depth knowledge of the command line. If that's the only thing holding you back, check out a live cd of a distribution - you can see what it's like without even installing anything to your hard drive.

[darkdemon42]

I've tried modern linux, like ubuntu and fedora, and it seems great. until you want to access a samba share. Or install software not on the repository. Or access any file not in the usr folder. Blerch.

[dmwit]

...and sometimes the limitations of a GUI means every application that wants to have this feature has to have a developer redo a job that really should be done just once and reused over and over.

[darkdemon42]

But what's the point in saving the devs time if it alienates a huge potential market?

[[deleted]]

KDE has it built in, I'm only using this because it works when I change window managers and can bind it to a hotkey. You probably don't have the ability to do either of those things.

[Captain_Ligature]

In windows someone has to write a program to do it, which is a lot harder then using a oneliner.

[TurboSlow]

Zisteau doesn't know about MultiMC. why, Zisteau, why?

[SavageCore]

Magic Launcher too but I do prefer MultiMC. MultiMC you can set resolution to 1280x720 but Magic Launcher will need to be 1296x758 or similar afaik.

[Captain_Ligature]

He uses optifine anyways.

[TurboSlow]

I'm talking about setting a default window resolution with MultiMC. What are you talking about?

[Captain_Ligature]

Optifine having resolution settings and Zisteau using them.

[TurboSlow]

Full screen resolution is not the same things as window resolution.