RA2 widescreen

[kix]

I know this is already a thing for few years and everybody know it, but ill make a topic out of it

There is a way to play Robot Arena 2 (any) in wscreen mode...
All you gotta do is change the ra2.cfg file..

There are two res segments below fullscreen section

Soo... lets say i want to play it on my laptop... now without the changing, top res is 1024 X 768..
If i change the width and height on first segment (1280 X 800) it will fit the screen windowed or fullscreen..
That res is for battle, game res and 3d stuff...

Now the second segment changes the HUD, UI, And other menues... the tricky part is that after changing res you might experience cut-outs (not that i experienced)

That is it... enjoy!

Note: the res ingame will show 640 X 480 cuz devs didnt made scripts for 16:9 res..
Also save the cfg as a read only file! That will help you if you want to put 4:3 res to import templates, as you cant click on the import template while on wscreen..

[Badger]

I think we've known about this for a while. Glad you've broughit it up though, tournament hosts not recording in 1080p drives me up the wall.

Something to note is that you can't export or import paint templates while using 16:9, and you can't go right to the edges in the chassis design tab either I think.

[yugitom]

tournament hosts not recording in 1080p drives me up the wall.

Tbf, exporting in 1080p just increases rendering and uploading times. It's not like people aren't uploading in 1080p because they don't know how :P

[Badger]

OK, well at least use a 16:9 format like 1280x720 instead of 4:3 stretched or some crap.

[090901]

gotta record and render in 4:3 for max good boy points.

[kix]

I think we've known about this for a while. Glad you've broughit it up though, tournament hosts not recording in 1080p drives me up the wall.

Something to note is that you can't export or import paint templates while using 16:9, and you can't go right to the edges in the chassis design tab either I think.

O.K. so custom templates dont work... it crashed my game once... and i stopped....

now the "you cant go right to the edges" part... mine can go over the grid and corners!

the thing you can do is try to lower width in second segment for building ONLY.. again, the game was 4:3 made.... what is your PC res?

[Badger]

I think we've known about this for a while. Glad you've broughit it up though, tournament hosts not recording in 1080p drives me up the wall.

Something to note is that you can't export or import paint templates while using 16:9, and you can't go right to the edges in the chassis design tab either I think.

O.K. so custom templates dont work... it crashed my game once... and i stopped....

now the "you cant go right to the edges" part... mine can go over the grid and corners!

the thing you can do is try to lower width in second segment for building ONLY.. again, the game was 4:3 made.... what is your PC res?

Custom paint templates don't work cause you did something wrong and crashed your game once. Thanks for letting us know brother.
If you're using some 3rd world res like 720p or 16:10 maybe, at 1080p you can't use the full chassis template.
Honestly the glitches with 16:9 are minor annoyances, and you can change back to 4:3 with a couple clicks. Protip, make your ra2.cfg read-only so you don't have to re-edit it every time you want to go from 4:3 to 16:9

[kix]

O.K. Good to know!