Fixing the Screens(Work flow)

You did do something. you created 1366 x 768 textures for the multiplayer and mission custom screens with their respective 800 x 600 images pasted and centered, but you didn't create 1366 x 768 mission standard screens with their respective 800 x 600 images pasted and centered.

The question is why?

"1.21 gigawatts directly to the flux capacitor."
"Specifics Bob"

Ummm, errrr, ummm.

There must have been a reason. It has been nearly 10 years since I did some of that work/research, lol.

Now that I actually stop and think about things there is no reason why I can't simply make new screens and just adjust the coordinates on the .CON files. In fact, because certain screens aren't centered I won't have to "translate" the coordinates using an app I built to recalculate.

I guess the reason I never bothered adjusting the screens was because I was focused on the multiplayer experience. Single player was on the back burner...for 10 years. I have been so focused on making the LR Launcher, making new map textures, running the website I never mentally revisited the single player screens.

Update: Just remembered Menu.dat is the issue. Modify it and you get checksum errors with different resolutions.

Update 2: Copy-cat came up with the perfect fix for this with the Menu.dat issue. He always thinks out of the box!

New thought: I never explored the differences with the original single CD version of the game from the 2 CD tactical version. Did it have a modified Menu.dat? Will an LR mod designed for the 2 CD version screw up slightly on the 1 CD version?

If I remember correctly the patches that installed multiplayer capabilities overwrote the menu.dat.

Finding someone running the 1 cd version that is willing to reinstall is going to be a challenge.

I have the 1 CD version on my laptop. Will compare tomorrow probably.

No differences. Looked at the tactics CD and it is totally self contained and uses it's own executable.

Always good to be extra careful.

Update: I recruited my kid to make a python script to make the processing of the menu.dat easier. There are a ton of lines to process for the new X,Y coordinates and my old method was too slow.