OK, I've gone ahead and enabled notifications for this topic so I won't miss another post. Only just realised this is possible!

OK, I have double-checked my laptop screen resolution and the highest it will go is 1366x768.

Ah yes, I meant to say 1366 x 768 rather than 1280 x 720. The issue is the same, though - it can manage 3x zoom in low res but only 1x zoom in hi-res (which is the same size, but higher resolution, as 2x zoom low-res).

And indeed, the DPI settings won't make any difference if it's a screen res issue.

I have tried, as you suggested, turning off the minimap, which definitely filled the entire width of the panel/screen.  The two attached screen photos show the results.

Thanks for sharing these, it's good to see how things look on different machines. I can of course simulate 1366 and other resolutions on my machine, but it's still good to have an actual comparison.

I do appreciate that my laptop is now a little long in the tooth and doesn't support 1920x1080, which would be ideal.  I will have to look into upgrading it soon.

I was careful not to outright suggest that you buy a new laptop, since that's a pretty naff support response! But yes, if you can treat yourself sometime, go for it

I will also try playing SLX on my desktop PC - which is older, but I have a really good 1080p IPS monitor, and run Windows 10 in 1920x1080.  I expect that I'll get more favourable results on that.

Almost certainly!

In the meantime though, one of the jobs on my list is to look at dynamic resizing of the skill panel so that it always matches the width of the game window. I've wanted to do that ever since I began with SLX, and now that it's been brought to my attention by someone who actually uses the program I'll definitely bring it up the priority list.

Much better!



Implemented in Commit 2afcb82c5 with Config menu option added in Commit ae0af2f3f.

Well, from the screenshots alone, it looks like the Level Select screen is being displayed correctly - the icons aren't supposed to be much bigger than that. The recently-added tooltip hints should help with these in the meantime, and I'll look at what can be done to improve the Level Select screen in general (a full overhaul isn't completely out of the question, but it may take some time).

Meanwhile, from the in-game screenshot it looks likely that your laptop's display has a max resolution of 1280 x 768. With that being the case, unfortunately it simply isn't wide enough to fit the full panel on the screen at 2x zoom in hi-res. Most laptops nowadays have a standard resolution of 1920 x 1080, and that's what I'm working to with SLX. We could consider reducing the number of possible skill types to 12 instead of 14 - and, I did in fact consider this for some time, but concluded that it would be a relatively drastic change to make for the sake of supporting older screen resolutions.

Definitely do double-check your laptop's display settings; it's possible that you may be able to go to a higher resolution, and this is what you'd need to do. If this isn't an option, then as a workaround for now you can head to the Config menu (F2 from the main menu screen), go to the Graphics tab, and un-check "Show Minimap". This will increase the size of the panel buttons considerably, and you can use the Zoom In/Out function to quickly move to another part of the level.

I'm also considering adding "Nudge Left/Right" hotkeys, which would quickly jump the screen left or right. Now that "Show Minimap" is optional, it seems like it might be a worthwhile feature.

So if I had a wav file that had the desired sound effect, I'd just need to rename it to "Bye.wav" and SLX would use it in place of the "bye.ogg" file, if the ogg file wasn't detected?

Correct, but de-capitalise it to be sure (so, "bye" instead of "Bye"), and rename "bye.ogg" to "bye2.ogg" or something in case you ever want to switch back.

Also, I recommend using this OGG Converting tool to convert the .wav to a .ogg (not entirely necessary, but it does save disk space).

It's also worth placing a separate copy of any mods you make in a separate folder (call it something like "SLX mods") and keep that folder somewhere handy. That way, when you update SLX, you have all your mods in one place.

Note: I did consider adding a "mods" folder to SLX for this purpose (similar to the one in Lemmini), this might happen at some point in the future. That way, mods can always be drag-dropped into the new copy of SLX. For now though, they must be performed again manually with each update.

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Meanwhile:

Postview cursor hotspot updated (Commit 593e81c14)
Tooltip hints added to Level Select menu and Config menu (Commits 1e8c3f8f4 and d2a37aeb1)

The other styles are still very early in development.

Your ideas sound fab, and based on the quality of your existing tilesets (particularly the chalk set) I'm very much looking forward to seeing your work!

Any suggestions would be welcome!

This is a tough one. I'm usually full of ideas, but when it comes to tilesets I can't seem to think of anything both original and worthwhile.

I think a really good beach/tropical theme could be good, but it's difficult to come up with abstract shapes. The tendency is to go full palm trees and beach balls!

It's like Pieuw said, the original tiles are a toolbox to build anything. What's needed, then, is perhaps to think more elemental and abstract with it rather than coming up with a very specific theme that immediately conjures up pre-existing shapes and images.

I'm in the process of migrating the project over to GitHub. For now, I'm pushing everything to both the Bitbucket origin and a newly set-up GitHub remote repo. This will be the setup until further notice; if you want to collab/clone/fork, please do so via the SLX GitHub repo. Thanks