I've been trying my best to study universal builds and get the hang of them, but I am still very confused... I feel you have the best way of going about this and was wondering if you could help me out?
I am making a vertical (portrait) endless runner type game with multiple scenes; (menu, gameplay, shop, characters...etc). I've created my entire project for iOS, in iPad (portrait). What I am trying to do is scale everything down to fit smaller devices, including android devices.
Is there a simple project file you could possibly send my way, that I can view for my type of game?
I've been trying my best to study universal builds and get the hang of them, but I am still very confused... I feel you have the best way of going about this and was wondering if you could help me out?
I am making a vertical (portrait) endless runner type game with multiple scenes; (menu, gameplay, shop, characters...etc). I've created my entire project for iOS, in iPad (portrait). What I am trying to do is scale everything down to fit smaller devices, including android devices.
Is there a simple project file you could possibly send my way, that I can view for my type of game?
Thanks, your help is greatly appreciated !
@As Of Latte You don't have to scale anything down, your camera will just get taller you only have to take that into account. I will make another video for portrait builds using a simple endless running sort of thing.
Here's a portrait video build. A basic endless runner sort of thing not much to it really but should help you get going, I also put the finished project below.
@BBEnk This is awesome!! Thank you so much! You didn't have to go through all the trouble of making a vid tutorial, but I greatly appreciate it Everything works perfect!
One small thing...I do have a black space above the game while previewing on other devices, other than iPad. Like you mentioned, I have to take into account my graphic size while designing, correct? What would you recommend a good background size to design in, that would fit with all devices?
@jigglybean the actors don't stretch just the the camera so more of the scene is visable, But sometimes you may have a background that needs to loop and in Landscape the camera gets wider so you will have to take that into account to make your actors fit. So you can just stretch them out to fit as one easy example, or tile them also.
I've been building my game based off your universal build portrait template and everything has been going great. Thanks again!
My question is;
What rule would I input to say if actor moves off the top of the screen, it would be a game over?
The code I'm using now works with iPad preview 50%. But with iPad 100% preview or iPhone devices, I can continue moving the actor off the top of the screen and a game over is never reached... Would it be something with the camsize or offset attributes? I just can't seem to figure it out, to work consistently for all devices
Here's what I am using now. Thanks in advance for your help!
@BBEnk I've about finished my very first game. The thing is, I have a few buttons and backgrounds that move into position and do something (i.e play music, etc.) when it's at x-position or another actor is at x-position. I'm assuming using this would mess with positions and so some rules i set wont exactly work. Suggestions?
BBEnk I've about finished my very first game. The thing is, I have a few buttons and backgrounds that move into position and do something (i.e play music, etc.) when it's at x-position or another actor is at x-position. I'm assuming using this would mess with positions and so some rules i set wont exactly work. Suggestions?
This doesn't change any position's just the camera size, But you will have to account for the extra screen area. For instance if your actor currently move's to x.position 512 and plays music "which is center of iPad display".
Now on iPhone5 x.position 512 is no longer the center so you would add to your rule that says move to position 512 you might change it to move to position 512+offSet/2.
@BBEnk said:
whoisjose04 said:
Now on iPhone5 x.position 512 is no longer the center so you would add to your rule that says move to position 512 you might change it to move to position 512+offSet/2.
@NimbleBug said:
BBEnk is this new "Device Platform attributes" helpful to fix this "Stretch" no distortion
I think it would be a lot more trouble because you would have to detect each device and adjust from there, when my way detects every device iOS,Android,ETC to start with and adjust from there automatically.
@BBEnk said:
I think it would be a lot more trouble because you would have to detect each device and adjust from there, when my way detects every device iOS,Android,ETC to start with and adjust from there automatically.
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If you have a single scene game this video might make it even easier to set up for universal. I should have mentioned this in above video I forgot.
This works the same as above but uses a camera origin offset to center play area.
Video and project below.
Nice @BBEnk !
What should I change if my game is in iPad Portrait?
Thank you in advance
@BonepileGames the constrain attribute that gets the new camSize is the only thing you would change so it would read,
attribute game.camSize to: game.screen.size.height*768/game.screen.size.width
and change attribute current.scene.camera.size.height to camSize.
and thats it.
Hey @BBEnk,
I've been trying my best to study universal builds and get the hang of them, but I am still very confused... I feel you have the best way of going about this and was wondering if you could help me out?
I am making a vertical (portrait) endless runner type game with multiple scenes; (menu, gameplay, shop, characters...etc). I've created my entire project for iOS, in iPad (portrait). What I am trying to do is scale everything down to fit smaller devices, including android devices.
Is there a simple project file you could possibly send my way, that I can view for my type of game?
Thanks, your help is greatly appreciated
!
@As Of Latte You don't have to scale anything down, your camera will just get taller you only have to take that into account. I will make another video for portrait builds using a simple endless running sort of thing.
Here's a portrait video build. A basic endless runner sort of thing not much to it really but should help you get going, I also put the finished project below.
@BBEnk This is awesome!! Thank you so much! You didn't have to go through all the trouble of making a vid tutorial, but I greatly appreciate it
Everything works perfect!
One small thing...I do have a black space above the game while previewing on other devices, other than iPad. Like you mentioned, I have to take into account my graphic size while designing, correct? What would you recommend a good background size to design in, that would fit with all devices?
I think the longest background will be about 1366 so I build mine out to 1400 just to be sure theres no black space.
Awesome stuff @BBEnk thanks so much. I have a question though. I get kinda lost around the part where you prevent your actors from all stretching too.
Can you point me in the right direction where I need to look?
thanks
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@jigglybean the actors don't stretch just the the camera so more of the scene is visable, But sometimes you may have a background that needs to loop and in Landscape the camera gets wider so you will have to take that into account to make your actors fit. So you can just stretch them out to fit as one easy example, or tile them also.
Thanks! I actually then watched the landscape video and it all became a bit clearer
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Hey @BBEnk I had a quick question.
I've been building my game based off your universal build portrait template and everything has been going great. Thanks again!
My question is;
What rule would I input to say if actor moves off the top of the screen, it would be a game over?
The code I'm using now works with iPad preview 50%. But with iPad 100% preview or iPhone devices, I can continue moving the actor off the top of the screen and a game over is never reached... Would it be something with the camsize or offset attributes? I just can't seem to figure it out, to work consistently for all devices
Here's what I am using now. Thanks in advance for your help!
self.Position.Y > game.Screen.Size.Height+self.Size.Height should work fine.
or you can use camSize.
self.Position.Y > game.camSize+self.Size.Height would also do same thing.
@BBEnk Awesome, worked perfect
Thanks.
@BBEnk I've about finished my very first game. The thing is, I have a few buttons and backgrounds that move into position and do something (i.e play music, etc.) when it's at x-position or another actor is at x-position. I'm assuming using this would mess with positions and so some rules i set wont exactly work. Suggestions?
@whoisjose04 said:
This doesn't change any position's just the camera size, But you will have to account for the extra screen area. For instance if your actor currently move's to x.position 512 and plays music "which is center of iPad display".
Now on iPhone5 x.position 512 is no longer the center so you would add to your rule that says move to position 512 you might change it to move to position 512+offSet/2.
got it.. will implement and test. Thanks!
@BBEnk is this new "Device Platform attributes" helpful to fix this "Stretch" no distortion
I think it would be a lot more trouble because you would have to detect each device and adjust from there, when my way detects every device iOS,Android,ETC to start with and adjust from there automatically.
@Lost_Oasis_Games some thing like this ?
Why actor lock do not follow background ?
help me please.
@l3anl7 said:
You have them on a non-scrollable layer, like what was said in your thread below not sure why your asking this in my thread about universal build.
http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/comment/559065/#Comment_559065
I've to try but I ccan't do this.
Using Universal Build and Parallax scrolling, Two simple ways to make it work.
Template in video:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/58782733/scrollTest.gameproj 2.zip
Video: