What size to use for iPad buttons?

GuaveMedia

HEy,

how big (pixels) should I make my buttons to make them look like very sharp?

thx

GuaveMedia

512x...
or 768x..?

thx for help

ozboybrian

http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/36222/image-optimisation-ram-usage#Item_25

Watch the video there and have a bit of a read. This should help : )

GuaveMedia

Thank you but I already knew that^^

I exported my buttons at size 768x348...Then in GameSalad in Actors I changed size to 768x348. Then I dragged the actor
into the scene and resized it to 280x86...and now it is again unsharpe

LeonardDeveloper

I don't think it really matters, just aslomg as they're not too big and as long as they look pretty! ,
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GuaveMedia

Yeah but an Start button at an iPad has to be at size of 256x80 for me...otherwise it would look to small

Clouds

@Alex0407
•••"I exported my buttons at size 768x348...Then in GameSalad in Actors I changed size to 768x348. Then I dragged the actor
into the scene and resized it to 280x86...and now it is again unsharpe "•••

•••"how big (pixels) should I make my buttons to make them look like very sharp?"•••

If you want a button that is 280 x 86 - then make your artwork 280 x 86.
Don't make it bigger and then resize it down, doing that will not make it sharper, you will just screw up the anti-aliasting, Gamesalad is not great at scaling images down, it seems to do a 'nearest neighbour' interpolation so images scaled down can look bad.

Also by making your button so big - and then scaling it down, you waste memory by having an unnecessarily large file size.

calvin9403

See 280 is not good because it is just above 256

Try to see if you can make it to 256

And yes make the buttons smaller 756 is way to big