Preview Only What Will Be Seen On A Phone?

CharlieG97

When you preview your game you see the entire project screen of which a small outer margin will not be included in the version you publish. Is there a way of previewing ONLY the inner rectangle of the preview screen?

CharlieG97

Can anyone help me here?

jamie_c

Hi Charlie, see the screen shot attached. The outside white rectangle is the live area of your game, this is what gets previewed and shown on the device. The inner white rectangle is the camera tracking zone and the outside grey rectangle is the pasteboard. Hope that makes sense and helps.

CharlieG97

Hi Charlie, see the screen shot attached. The outside white rectangle is the live area of your game, this is what gets previewed and shown on the device. The inner white rectangle is the camera tracking zone and the outside grey rectangle is the pasteboard. Hope that makes sense and helps.

So as long as I leave the inner rectangle where it is and use no camera movement rules (so basically keep my display as shown in your screenshot) then only the inner rectangle will be seen when on my phone?
What I was wandering is if there is a way to display just the inner rectangle when I hit the green play button as I currently see both the inner and outer rectangles which makes it hard to determine what the game would actually look like, or am I doing something wrong?
Finally, if I extend the inner rectangle to the same size as the outer one, can I use this whole screen leaving actors that need to be unseen but still used in the grey area?
Thanks for the help, I just want to make sure I'm making the game correctly from the beginning, I'm quite new to GameSalad.