Looking at the most common monitor resolutions at Steam to see what it would take to get a 640x360 UI to upscale without shrinking or distortions, things mostly seem simple enough.
1st, 2nd, and 4th most common resolutions are straight upscaling. A 20 pixel border top and bottom for 16:10 displays (3rd and 7th most common) and a 60 pixel border left and right for 3440x1400 displays (5th most common).
But what in hell are 1366x768 displays?! (6th most common.)
Why does this exist?
@philipdrobar A 60 pixel wide decorative border around a 640x360 UI would look good at 1280x960 and 1920x1440 for 4:3 screens, and on those 3440x1440 screens.
And if it can be neatly clipped at 20 pixels wide, it also works for 16:10 screens.
1366x768 screens will probably have to play at 1280x720 and have to deal with cropped borders on all four sides.
I might be overthinking this as there could perhaps be technical solutions to take care of that, but to make a 640x360 game work in various screen resolutions without distorted pixels, these are the borders I would have to add to the UI to cover 93% of the used resolutions in the Steam user statistics. (Which somehow only add up to 97% total including "other".)
That's not too bad. But everyone who needs borders beyond that just gets a bare texture with no more details.
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