Porting reforged loading screens to 1.30 WC3

[Malistroth]

I'm playing 1.30.4 version of the game with black bars on the left and right sides in menus and loading screens and I wonder if it's possible to take the loading screens from Reforged and port them to the old version of the game.

 

[Dr Super Good]

In theory it should be possible. The image would need black bars added to top and bottom to be made 4:3. If that version supports any sized BLP files (not all old versions did) then making it a single high resolution BLP file should be possible. Otherwise it would need to be fragmented into a mosaic of images at most 512x512 pixels. With the mosaic method, for really high resolution images a special loading screen model may be needed which allows for more tiles.

The end result will be the 16:9 high quality loading screen pillar boxed with black bars at top and bottom into 4:3. Kind of like it being zoomed in.