Forum

SnapFire

Hey All,

I've seen so many confused people when it comes to Resolution Independence. Hopefully this explanation will help those people out.
Ok here goes - Correct me if you know a better way to explain it.

The IPhone 4/s has 2x+ the pixels of a 3Gs. Therefore, if you want your game to be retina display quality on an IPhone 4/s, do the following:

Select resolution independence on the home screen of your iphone app. This will make it so that you can upload your images at 2x size and GS will automatically size them down so that they look the same as always on your screen. However, they will be retina display quality on an IPhone 4/s.

I really hope this helps. If you have any other questions or problems just post here and I will answer you to the best of my ability.
-Thomas

ozboybrian

Resolution indépendance is just the HD setting for you device.
If it is on, it will cut all image seizes in half. Compressing them for HD quality. Mainly noticeable on the i4 onwards.

If Ri is off, then then image size you import will be the image size it is if you drag it straight into the scene.

That's all there really is to it.

Edit - Oh you're just clearing things up with other people.
You're basically right if i'm wrong xD or we're both right! :))

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Support Fabled Apps! :D

Please LIKE Fabled Apps on Facebook.

Please Subscribe to Fabled Apps on YouTube.

SnapFire

Good Point.
-Thomas

MotherHoose

good @ozboybrian

do not know how the term Resolution Independence came to be applied to images!
originally the term was used to for typesetting/fontWidth … not images.

mayhap, peoples took it from TV "display resolution" … and in the context used by GS 'display'… would have been the better term to borrow.

by resolution one assumes they mean Size i.e. the Width and Height of the image
by independence one assumes they mean it doesn't depend on one platform's; the GS will figure-out which size image for the platform's OS.

with retina display the images size in the resources is larger … or the volume of pixel is 4 times greater.



@};- MH

SnapFire

@MootherHoose

I've seen that video also. However, It is slightly confusing for newbies, because they think it means that they need to actually change the scene size of their project to 960 by 640. I just wanted to clarify things.

RP

And I though it was so much deeper than that, like after years of oppression and conflict, Resolution declared independence.

Finally going to get my iPhone 4GS, so at least I'll be able to test the resolution output on my newer device vs. my 3GS.