Switching between Landscape and Portrait for different scenes.

dixondonalddixondonald Member Posts: 33
edited October 2012 in Working with GS (Mac)
Half of the scenes in my game will be in Portrait and half will be in Landscape. I know I can choose one and turn my art sideways for the rest, but that is not the easiest way to work. Is there a way to choose the orientation for each scene inside GameSalad?

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  • gyroscopegyroscope I am here.Member, Sous Chef, PRO Posts: 6,598

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    I know it will be a pain to lay out landscape scenes with everything rotated 90º but I can't see any other alternative, personally...

    For certain though, you can define orientation for each scene, so the user can rotate the other way of the particular orientation, i.e for Portrait scenes, select Portrait and Portrait Upside Down; and for landscape select Landscape Left and Landscape Right. Hope that's helped.

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  • dixondonalddixondonald Member Posts: 33
    Well, the bit about defining orientation for rotating each scene helped. I didn't know you could do that. I guess I'll just be doing a lot of head turning for certain portions of the development.

    Thanks for your quick reply.
  • dixondonalddixondonald Member Posts: 33
    Just posting again in case anyone else gets this in a search. I thought of something you can do to make it a little easier to organize the actors on your stage if you have to turn your art sideways like me. If you're on a Mac, go into System Preferences, hold cmd + option and click Displays. Now you have the option to rotate your display. Problem solved!(sorta).
  • gyroscopegyroscope I am here.Member, Sous Chef, PRO Posts: 6,598

    Hey, nice one! Why didn't I think of that? :-)

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  • levi50levi50 Member Posts: 9

    Also you can open a separate project with multiple of the opposite landscape save it then exit out of GS go to where ever you saved the project go into the folder go to scenes then drag that file into your other game folder inside the scene folder as well hopefully this helped

  • imjustmikeimjustmike Member Posts: 450

    Why don't you just add a rule to all of the actors to rotate 90 when the game starts. That way you can design it normally, and as soon as the game loads, they'll rotate to the correct rotation?

    I do something similar with transparency - set text boxes to have colour which turns off when the game loads. Make it easier to lay out stuff.

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