Bezel Scaling for ultrawide monitor

[mooock]

I run an ultrawide monitor. Is there any way to make the bezel fit or force Hypseus to run a specific window resolution.

I run it in fullscreen window

[DirtBagXon]

The "correct" way to do it would be to create a bezel (they are just png) for the ultra-wide monitor and respect the original aspect ratio of the game video. Much like you would on a vertical screen. If you do this please join and share them in the Discord #bezel channels.

The "hacky" way to correct this, and ignore the aspect ratio of the game video, is to use the -x and -y arguments to specify the resolution you want the game video window to be. But it will look stretched.

But either way, something has to give.....

[mooock]

the issue comes up when using the emulator on different monitors. I sometime switch between 4K, 1080P and ultrawide. the aspect of the 4K would fit with the 1080P but not for the ultrawide. Retroarch supports this feature and match it to the 1080P aspect. and for other emulators i have been able to do a autohotkey script to change resolution to a 16:9 that also can work. but this requires the screen to blank and is not as elegant as making the emulator always run in fullscreen 1080P or have the bezel to scale.

If its not possible, i think i will go with my autohotkey script. As this will match the bezel as long the display supports this resolution
https://github.com/mooock/Launchbox/blob/main/Autohotkey/1080Res.ahk

[DirtBagXon]

The bezel is just a PNG that is overlayed, at the top level, of the display window texture fitting the logical resolution reported by the screen to SDL. The game and bezel are one and the same element in the final render.

Retroarch loads bezels as separate entities from the game (as I understand it), so it can treat the layers as different entities and scale according to whatever options you give it. Different beasts altogether.

[mooock]

would it not be possible to have a feature for the bezel to keep aspect ratio. i guess that would fix the problem

[DirtBagXon]

Edge cases here, how many users are gonna be switching monitors with different aspect ratios and and not have bezels that they can load via a different command line argument in the different scenarios. The bezels most users with elaborate setups will utilize are custom made. The bezel pack just covers the standard 16:9 monitors. I'm happy to accept pull requests from anyone who has the hardware and can provide a working, and tested, patch for things like this. Otherwise I'll take it under contract ;) ....

[mooock]

you have done an awesome job already. I just wanted to make sure it wasn't me that overlooked a feature to make this work. I might have put in a wrong example. but having a specific bezel pack only for ultrawide would make it hard to maintain in the long run. now for Singe there is not that many games that it is a huge problem.

thanks alot for all your answers

[DirtBagXon]

Thanks, I don't know if any of the ideas here might help you: https://github.com/dsync89/hypseus-singe-bat-structured

All the best.