Help with screen res iPhone 5 and 4

Jaysta

Hi, I am making my game for the iPhone 5 and when I use overscan it zooms in too far and chops off the edge of the game.

Now If I fix this it will obviously then look funny on the 5.

How can this be fixed?

Thanks.

carlblanchet

That is because Overscan is meant to do exactly that, if you pick Letterbox instead it will reduce the size to fit the screen but will have a black bar at the top and bottom if not played on an iphone five and that wouldn't look good on iPhone 4 and less.

Here's watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2pq7iy6QYXw#!

Jaysta

Thanks for the reply, do you know what the numbers would be going from i5 to i4? Cause the vid shows changing it to i4 to i5, tried a few ways and have got the width right but for some reason camera origin x wont go back to -29.

carlblanchet

I personally have not yet used or played with this trick, so I'm not too sure.

Ronaldinho10

Hi guys, i'having the same problem of Jaysta, the video shows how resize from iphone 4 4 to iphone 5,but i have the opposite problem ,i'm making a iphone 5 game and if i put legacy iphone (crop) on the preview it cuts the edges of the screen.
I watched the video,i try many solutions, for example change the game.screen.size.width to 480 instead 568 and the scene camera size height to 320 but nothing
How can i resolve this problem?
Thanks guys

alarm656

That is because Overscan is meant to do exactly that, if you pick Letterbox instead it will reduce the size to fit the screen but will have a black bar at the top and bottom if not played on an iphone five and that wouldn't look good on iPhone 4 and less.

Here's watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2pq7iy6QYXw#!

quality of this video is very good))))

Ronaldinho10

Hi guys, i'having the same problem of Jaysta, the video shows how resize from iphone 4 4 to iphone 5,but i have the opposite problem ,i'm making a iphone 5 game and if i put legacy iphone (crop) on the preview it cuts the edges of the screen.
I watched the video,i try many solutions, for example change the game.screen.size.width to 480 instead 568 and the scene camera size height to 320 but nothing
How can i resolve this problem?
Thanks guys

if i change in project info tab from iphone landscape to legacy iphone landscape and after follow the video above,could be a solution ?

carlblanchet

The fact that the sides cut off is normal, since legacy is the iphone 4 and less screen size. You can indeed develop your game with iphone legacy but this feature won't be in gamesalad for ever.

Simply have a rule in your actors that are on the side that cuts off:
~Rule~
if device.screen.size.width/height = 568 -> Change attribute self.position.x/y to their normal location.

and another rule:

~Rule~
if device.screen.size.width/height = 480 -> Change attribute self.position.x/y and move them in a bit so that they don't get cut off.

Ronaldinho10

thank for the answer ,but my problem is the background image that is cut off (

SnapFireStudios

@Ronaldinho10 - You could change the image inside of the same rules that @carlblanchet already listed. That's what i'm doing in my newest app.
- Thomas

alarm656

The fact that the sides cut off is normal, since legacy is the iphone 4 and less screen size. You can indeed develop your game with iphone legacy but this feature won't be in gamesalad for ever.

Simply have a rule in your actors that are on the side that cuts off:
~Rule~
if device.screen.size.width/height = 568 -> Change attribute self.position.x/y to their normal location.

and another rule:

~Rule~
if device.screen.size.width/height = 480 -> Change attribute self.position.x/y and move them in a bit so that they don't get cut off.

You're quiet right!)))

alarm656

thank for the answer ,but my problem is the background image that is cut off (

Background image. Rule: if attribute device.screen.size.wight = 480. change attribue: self.image.size.wight to 480. When you choose crop you couldn't see the black side and not cut off)))