A practice among SBers is to downscale bigger images to make the storyboard at a higher resolution than 854/640x480 and then downscale it by script thus allowing higher resolution than osu!s default SB resolution.Ranking Criteria wrote:
Storyboard images must be at a reasonable size for their usage. For most uses (e.g. full-screen images), the maximum is 800x600 pixels for 4:3 aspect ratio images, although 640x480 is highly preferred. For widescreen mode (recommended) the maximum is 960x540 pixels for 16:9 aspect ratio images and 960x600 for 16:10 images. The editor is 640x480 at default, so there's really no need to use anything larger for full-screen purposes.
This criteria however disallows this practice and it feels like an pity because right now 1366x768 and above has been the standard for some time now.
I would suggest to change it so images up to 1366x768 would be allowed for storyboards.
(Also another thing, right now 854x640 (Widescreen) is a more common resolution for new storyboards than 640x480 so I feel that the criteria needs to reflect that)
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Changed version:
Storyboard images must be at a reasonable filesize and dimension for their usage. For most uses (e.g. full-screen images), the maximum is 1366x768 pixels. For widescreen storyboards 854x480 is preferred as it matches the internal resolution of the SB editor. For 4:3 aspect ratio images 640x480 is preferred.
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Edit 2: Rule has been changed to the above wording.