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"I'd like to rework the engine to use a 16:9 virtual resolution for the GUIs instead of the one Doom 3 shipped with, but surely it's not as simple as finding and replacing every reference to the old virtual resolution of 640x480 in the codebase."
Reader, it was as simple as that.
lmfao really? god i love how weirdly simple the doom 3 source code is sometimes
IIRC this is possible without changing the code, I have to look it up and will reply again later
I think it was forceaspectwidth and forceaspectheight in a windowDef (probably the "Desktop" one).
So if you set forceaspectwidth 1920 and forceaspectheight 1080 you should be able to use coordinates and widths in 16:9 fullhd resolution, and all that is then scaled to the virtual 640x480 and then scaled to the actual screen resolution automatically (should be more or less lossless as floats are used).
(Could be that dhewm3 still scales it to 4:3 with black bars on left right, in that case try also setting scaleto43 0 in the windowDef).
Update: It's likely that this wouldn't change anything with the current code, but for a standalone project you can just make the r_scaleMenusTo43 CVar default to 0.
It's also possible that this isn't properly scaled (with black/empty bars) in non-16:9-resolution, but that might be fixable if needed
committed to butchering doom 3? please do that game is so boring and can only be made more interesting
e: okay I forgot about quake 4 so it is in fact possible to make doom 3 less interesting
