"Screen scaling: Gameplay" cuts off approach circles

[Qunas101]

Type

Game behaviour

Bug description

If you set Screen scaling to Gameplay, you would see approach circles getting cut of at the edges. This is very distracting during gameplay and turns this option unusable. It's the only option that does not affect other menus and keeps map bg full screen.

I'm not sure about balancing, maybe that's a separate discussion, but how it looks currently is very wrong imo

I also saw this discussion and it seems to be a similar issue

Screenshots or videos

Version

2024.130.2

Logs

compressed-logs.zip

[bdach]

I'm not sure about balancing, maybe that's a separate discussion, but how it looks currently is very wrong imo

The balancing is the point. You would have an advantage if approach circles weren't cut off.

[Qunas101]

I understand that, but you can still play around with horizontal/vertical scaling and essentially trade vertical cutting off with horizontal, depending on the map perhaps. Is it not a balancing concern?

For example:

Default settings	More vertical space with less horizontal to stay at the same size

[bdach]

I'm not sure what those last screenshots are showing. Can you describe in more detail?

[frenzibyte]

I'm just going to mark this as a duplicate of #5353, no need for another thread.

[Qunas101]

My bad. Do I still describe it or just move on?

[bdach]

@Qunas101 please do because if the clipping can be somehow bypassed somewhere else then we may need to actually introduce it there too

[Qunas101]

It's not completely bypassed, you are "trading" vertical slicing for horizontal

So what I did was increase vertical scaling to it's max and decrease horizontal scaling until the playfield overall stays at a desired scale.
This results in no approach circles getting cut off at the top and bottom of the map, but instead they will get cut off at the sides of the map. So if a map has a few hit circles near the side edges, the impact will be minimal. The reverse logic applies

[Qunas101]

Personally, I don't think seeing full approach circles is that beneficial, but you probably know more than me. I'm just reporting my observations