Automatically change actor size/position for different device aspect ratios (Template)

nikkon

Hi,

Thought I would share a template I created to convert my iPad app "Loopy Lost His Lettuce" to iPhone/android version.

It basically works out the percentage difference between the devices screen aspect ratios and moves/resizes the actor accordingly.

This has allowed me to create one version which will move actors to the correct position on all devices irrelevant of screensize (with overscan enabled). I mainly used this on all overlay HUD actors. The majority of my project was designed within the android 4:3 area.

I'm still relatively new to gamesalad so if you find any issues let me know. I'm sure the template can be improved so feel free to modify/improve and post it back to help other users.

Also note as my project was created at iPad retina res, for the iPhone version I resized all my images by 50% from within the gamesalad project file. This set the images close to the native iPhone resolution and improved performance quite a bit.

Hope this of some help.

Have uploaded template here > http://www.mediafire.com/?2g0j7wuls7i12wo

Thank,

Nick

nikkon

Also note > I used this to convert from iPad to iPhone/Android. I have an attribute called "isPad". When this is false it will enable the dynamic changes.

When i published my;

iPad version I set 'Platform' within gamesalad to :iPad Landscape: with "IsPad" to True.

For iPhone version i set 'Platform' to "iPhone Landscape" with "IsPad" set to false

For the android/Nook/Kindle version i set 'Platform' to "Kindle Fire Landscape" with "isPad" set to false.

mrpacogp

well, i,m testing this values on android, and works fine, but one question..

On your project when you say:
change attrib game devicewidthno to (1024-(1024*((( game.Screen.Size.Width / game.Screen.Size.Height )/(1024/577)*100)*0.01)))/2)

1024 x 577 is camera size isipad is false really?
and the two first 1024-(1024?

Game device height is calculate on 768 (ipad height)-577 (camera height)?

And at finally,
game devicepercentchange is (( game.Screen.Size.Width / game.Screen.Size.Height )/(1024/577)*100)*0.01

1024/577 is another time camera size really?

I have to check RI i know, but my project was made on iphone legacy and my scene is 2048x512 with camera size 480x320 and i want to test how works with that resize techniques.

Its using overscan all time really?