higher resolution = more area seen?

in Terraria, when the window was smaller, instead of shrinking the game down, it just let you see less land and area. when you full screen you were able to see more. Will starbound be like this?

 

in the duel stream with leth, one of them had more Area seen,
so yah it does

 

Actually I believe there was also an option that said, zoom level, so even if you've got low res, you can decrease the zoom level and it'll show a bit more. Or at least I assume that's what it's used for.

 

Pretty sure there's a zoom level option like DakoShark said. But people have been wrong, and so may I.

 

It is indeed Zoom Level, it may be around the same zoom level for everyone but easy changeable so i guess it doesn't interact much with the window size.

 

It definitely does, as evidenced in the screenshots with multi-monitor support: http://playstarbound.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/evcBf.png

 

I remember they say about that, the huge zoom out levels you see there are just for the DEVs, right now the players have one limited zoom level we can use.

 

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Yeah this comment is out of topic but who cares!

 

The game supports scaling. This allows you to separate physical resolution (which you should always run at your max monitor resolution for best quality and crispness, assuming you run the game full-screen of course) from the visual zoom-in level.

You can use the zoom setting to decide whether you want to play zoomed-out (see more of screen at same time, but have difficulty spotting/controlling small things), zoomed-in (see things up-close but see less of screen at once), or some medium ground.



Still TBI if this is an out-of-game setting you choose once and stick with between sessions, or whether you can dynamically control this in-game e.g. via scroll wheel. The latter would be pretty cool IMO, as you could switch between modes based on what you are doing (e.g. zoom in when fighting melee, zoom out when running/ranged fighting, and ZOOM WAY WAY OUT when taking an awesome screenshot!)