Help: Primary Viewport not increasing in size when scaled.

[DJ Diarrhea]

Hello everyone.
I'm just getting back into using SFM but I'm having a bit of an issue. Whenever I try to increase the size of the primary viewport, the size of the screen stays the same, and it just adds black bars around it instead. This means it takes up a huge amount of space for the same size screen. I am using an old 2009 iMac as my monitor, which has a resolution of 2560x1440. I just want the viewport to be larger so I can see what I am doing better. Can anyone help me? Thank you!

[Zappy]

Please show us a screenshot of Source Filmmaker's entire interface, with the black bars around the view in the viewport. I'm not saying that I don't know what you mean, I just want to see the exact details (shape, size, et cetera) for myself.

[DJ Diarrhea]

Sure! No problem.
https://imgur.com/a/uM3ckHw

[Zappy]

Originally posted by Talking Horse™ App for Android:

Sure! No problem. -Image-

Source Filmmaker's internal 3D resolution is 1280x720 by default. The view in your viewport is 1280x720 (as the view doesn't grow bigger than its resolution), so there's nothing "wrong".

If you want the view to fill the viewport, you can try to do one of the following:
- Make the viewport smaller to fit the view. (This doesn't solve your problem of it being small...)
- Decrease the resolution of your screen, to make all fixed-pixel-size elements on-screen appear relatively bigger. This affects everything, not just Source Filmmaker, though, so it may be unfavourable.
- Right-click Source Filmmaker in your Steam library (in the "Software" or "Installed" categories), choose "Properties" > "General" > "Set Launch Options...", add "-sfm_resolution 1080" (it defaults to 720 if unspecified), click "OK", click "Close", and reboot Source Filmmaker.
This will increase the internal 3D resolution, I think. If not, simply click "File" > "Export" > "Movie...", change the resolution from 1280x720 to 1920x1080 (which requires "-sfm_resolution 1080", or some number higher than 1080), click "Cancel", and then save and re-load the session.
Admittedly, I don't know if this affects views in viewports... but I'd imagine that it does. Note, though, that this can reduce performance notably.

[DJ Diarrhea]

Thanks so much for the help! I modified the launch options a bit to read "-sfm_resolution 1080 -h 1080 -w 1920" and now the viewport takes up the entire screen. Thank you again for helping me get back into SFM!