ACES Team: patch for FSX , pool

>>OMG>>>>IT DOES SUPPORT WIDESCREEN, but 2D cockpits are dependant on>>the size of the bitmap that they were created in! What don't>>you get?>>If you look at the outside view or the VC then all will be>>fine. It's only 2D panels that are affected by this.>>>>I use 2D panels now that were created for 1024x768 but I use>>them at 1600x1200 on my monitor. Do you hear me complaining>>that they look 'grainy' at the higher resolution.... No!>>>>>>Of course man no! because your gauges are looking good,>doesn't matter if the mipmap are grainy to fly, while on>wideviews screen the gauges are strech and with a distorted>size and this make a difference in flying, that's the>difference between grainy and strech ;-)Effectively when you take a bitmap image with a 4:3 aspect ratio and display it on a 16: 9 device you are causing it to scale asymmetrically, causing the streching effect. While it may be technically possible for Aces to reduce this effect using an digital anamorphic distortion effect. (Similar to the anamorphic lens effect on Home Theater Projectors!) The added processing power required to perform the calculations to do this, would be too costly, especially with FSX, and is beyond the scope of the product. There is nothing preventing a 3rd party developer from creating 16: 9 bmps for wide screen panels themselves. Of course the same will be true with those. You wouldn't be able to use those on 4:3 monitors.