Questions tagged [resolution]
The pixel resolution that the game displays in, or can be displayed in if there are multiple.
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Different resolution for UI?
I'm developing my first game for mobile devices in Unity3D. My game uses a 720p-resolution. Currently the UI uses the same one. So far so good.
I heard that professional game-developers create their ...
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What is the proper way of handling resolution and size units on a 2D game?
So I started to learn SDL2 and I want to make a simple 2D game.
Now when I render a texture I have to specify in pixels the size of the element I want to draw and also the position in pixels on the ...
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How to change application surface size without changing view size? (GMS2)
I am working on a pixel art project in GameMaker 2 with native resolution 428x240. In order to enable "subpixel" rending, I am trying to increase the resolution of my ...
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What should be the display configuration for mobile game in Godot 3.1?
I am developing a mobile game in Godot so I want to know what should be the display configuration to show the game it should be, I tried before a Web Game, and when it was played on mobile games it ...
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couldn't switch to requested monitor resolution in Windows 7
Run the game,and it shows that it couldn't switch to requested monitor resolution, DX11 could not switch resolution in Windows 7(both 32 and 64 bit ) when I tried to build the game with Unity 2017.3, ...
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How to make game playable in all mobile screen resolution using Unity Cinemachine with perspective mode?
I want my 2D game to be playable (auto scale) in all screen resolution. I'm using Cinemachine & under "perspective" mode. I found tutorial to change the screen in "orthographic" mode but there is ...
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Unity my game starts in windowed mode, but the fullscreen box is checked
When I open my game the fullscreen box is checked, but the game is windowed. If I uncheck and check the box it will go into fullscreen. What is the fix?
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What image size/resolution is best for a 2D Mobile Dress Up Game [duplicate]
I have begun the process of making a 2D dress up games (i.e. Pastel Girl and Cute Girl Avatar Maker). Majority of the tutorials I have seen always include things like game physics, but I don't need to ...
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Pixel Perfect 2D tiles
I'm trying to make an 64x64 tilemap using Super Tilemap Editor & Unity but my tiles looks terrible. I did my research about pixel perfect 2D and all of the solutions were for pixel art, they didn'...
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How to keep consistent between image quality, device range support and final size of the game?
I am developing a game with the LibGdx framework, but I would like to discuss a more theoretical question.
Criteria:
I want to support as many devices as possible for my game (phones and tablets)
I ...
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Game was resized incorrectly for no apparent reason (GameMaker)
I exported the game with the following graphics settings:
OBS - Interpolate colors between pixels would be like a Antiliasing. I do not think it is the cause of the problem, but I will test without ...
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What resolution should I render art for a 3D game for PC?
I hope this is not too stupid a question. I'm making my first game for PC and I'm wondering what resolution I should render the artwork at. It will be a fixed-perspective game, so I'm using a 2D ...
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How to allow a 2D game to work with all screen resolutions without only using Unity's Canvas Scaler
I know there's plenty of questions out there already, however it seems as though there's always an update or change to either the Unity platform, the phone screen sizes, etc.
I'm struggling with ...
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Unity game resolution lowered
I recently upgraded unity from 2018.1 to 2018.2 and also upgraded my nvidia geforce.
I have seen that the letters resolution of the program itself are better now but my game tab is going lower res ...
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Setting up a low res viewport to stretch in Unity
I am working on porting a low-res game over to Unity. In my previous engine, I had the option to set a native resolution (say, 160 x 144), and it would automatically stretch when the player entered ...
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Can't scale properly to android device in Game Maker Studio 1.4
My phone is using a resolution of 360 x 640 with a 9:16 aspect ratio. I set my room in game maker to ...
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How do I lower the resolution scale in DX11?
I've tried a lot of things including lowering the backbuffer size but that causes terrible scaling that I can't really control. I've also tried rendering the scenes to a smaller texture then scaling ...
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Objects' coordinates and scale adjustment according to different devices resolution and aspect ration in Unity
E.g I have a bunch of objects which are generated in specific coordinates. Let's say in a range of - 5 to + 5 on X axis. I came app with these numbers because of camera size I have in Unity editor.
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Mobile screen resolution and canvas size
I'm making a HTML5 game using the canvas. I was building it for my iPhone 6 which state a resolution of 1334x750 pixels but also a resolution of 667x375 points. I notice that my canvas need to match ...
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Unity Blurry on new Windows 4k Computer
I just got a Razer 14 Inch 4k with a GTX 1060 and am having some blurry rendering in unity. Also the cursor is tiny... Here is a screen shot:
As you can see, the rendering is really blurry. I came ...
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Implement resolution scaling HTML5 canvas
I'm building an hmtl5 real time game using socket.IO and node.js. If you've heard of the classic game "pong", I'm going for that. When you consider the gameplay for this game, it becomes apparent that ...
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Viewport for pixelart (WebGL)
I'm trying to display 16x16 pixel art textures (all textures have 16x16), but they are not displayed how I expected (they are ...
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Unity - get screenshots from various resolutions
To upload my app to Google Play I need to provide various screenshots. Thing is, I have only one tablet, no phone and I don't feel like virtualizing a bunch of devices. Is there a way to create ...
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Making a pixel-perfect viewport in LibGDX
My game that uses LibGDX as the graphics library, should be playable with every display. Here's the problem: It have to be pixel-perfect. That means, the scale factor must be an integer value, so that ...
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What is the perfect sprite size for new ipads with retina displays [closed]
The graphic designer is sending me huge sprites 3000px in width drawn by hand. And now the company is hiring a professional painter to paint huge oil paintings for the game for other levels. Nothing ...
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How to force keep the aspect ratio and specific resolution without stretching the output screen view?
I'm using Screen.SetResolution()
But when I run in Android device, it shows the output image is stretched to fill up the full screen which I don't want. I want it to keep the aspect ratio properly.
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Best base resolution for a pixelart project for bigger audience [closed]
I've been working on Top-down 2D pixel art project for quite some time. When I first started my project, I actually set application surface, display and game window to match 1:1 - with that said, the ...
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Why is the image appearing smaller, in the scene?
I have a fresh Unity project, with just one 480x800 pixel image. It's platform is set to Android, and the aspect ratio in the game view is WVGA Portrait (480x800). However, the image doesn't occupy ...
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Understanding pixel art in Unity 2d
I am struggling to understand the basics behind pixel art in Unity.
I understand what a unit is, and that if I draw my sprite with 16x16 pixels, I should set PPU to 16.
Take stardew valley for ...
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Tiled: handling multiple map sizes
I have two sets of assets (lo res and hi res) that are exact replicas of each other except one set is twice the size of the other and used for larger screens. At runtime, I find the users screen size, ...
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Web Game Resolution [closed]
I'm starting on a new game that I intend to release via the web (HTML + Javascript). I would like to be able to make a reasonable decision about what screen resolution sizes to support, and what ...
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Are these all possible mobile devices resolutions?
In Unity, there's a switch where you can set your desired resolution and check if the game looks ok:
If I target the app for portait only - do I have to worry only ...
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How to solve problem with Terrain Flashing and then disappears when flying away?
I am making flight simulator( my first Unity project) , the biggest challenge so far is terrain, so whenever I fly away from it (not that far) the terrain starts flashing and disappears which is just ...
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I'm having resolution issues; does my math suck?
There are a lot of scripts involved so I'm just going to give a generalized description of the process.
First, a 1x1 square tile is created. Second, that tile is placed out of the way, and 16 x 10 (...
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Does decreasing rendering resolution also decrease the amount of polygons in my 3d models?
When lowering my game resolution I reduce the pixel count of the final rendered output image, does the 3d model I use to render the final image also lose polygons?
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Unity - how to switch between ratios in a Scene View?
I'm complately new to Unity, but I know what's going on, I've made some games with LibGDX earlier.
In GDX, to handle all ...
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Is there a way to get native resolution of device window/display on android?
When change the framebuffer resolution by calling
Screen.setResolution(1920,1080)
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How to change Unity's display settings/resolution?
Unity displays in poor quality on my computer (the software itself), I was wondering how to change resolution/display settings?
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Should a Game include Multi-Monitor Support? [closed]
I'm coding a 2D platformer in SDL2 and c++ and was wondering if there's an expectation for videogame's to support Multi-Monitor setups and if so, if it applies to 2D platformers.
As a bonus question ...
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how to correctly scale box2d in libgdx
I'm currently using 800x480 resolution and FitViewPort and I divided that by PixelPerMeter variable which is equal to 10 and that helped to move my box2d body faster. But when I tried to use fonts I ...
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Scaling my pixel art platformer from 720p to 1080p
I'm developing a pixel art 2D platformer for PC and smartphone, but I'm stuck on a technical issue.
I chose to have a 32x32 tile resolution, and a 64x64 character sprite resolution. The levels are ...
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Libgdx handle screen resolutions
I know there are some questions to this topic, but i didnt find a
satisfying answer for my problem yet.
I'm learning to use libgdx right now, and I'm not sure about handling different screen ...
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What image resoluiton for sprites in 2D mobile game? [closed]
I am an experienced iOS developer, however I have never worked on games before. We are planning to make a mobile game using Unity 3D.
Our graphics designer needs to know what resolution should he ...
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Unity Remote screen resolution
I just made a game using Unity. However, when I tested the game on unity remote, the resolution or graphic of the game was really low compared to the actual game. Would this change when I deploy the ...
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How to handle different resolutions in SDL2?
What is the easiest way to set different resolutions with SDL2?
I was trying to use the SDL_RenderSetScale() function first, but for some reason it alters the ...
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Per-Texel lighting? (not per-vertex or per-pixel)
In my game, I have a 3D shader that does lighting using color ramps on models with very low resolution textures. Basically, the vertex shader calculates color values for direct light and ambient ...
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How to set widget size that is independent of screen resolution/density in kivy
I had coded a simple click game with Python-kivy to android.
You should click dots which are popping out randomly at screen. I set their size 20px to 60px as your level. But it seems when I try on ...
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XNA/MonoGame screen scale and keeping aspect
My aim is to make a simple 2D platformer, the idea is that it will be a base resolution of 480x270 (16:9) which can scale x2, x4(1920x1080) or go full screen.
I basically do:
graphics....
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DirectX 11 - Problem with low resolution decals
I'm trying to add a decal system in my DirectX engine but i'm facing some problems with the quality of the textures projected. Every other no decal texture look fine, but these ones look really bad.
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Is it a bad idea to “map” the mouse position on the screen so that collision detection works regardless of resolution?
Consider a game who's default resolution is 800x600. Objects with collision masks are placed in a game world of size 800x600. The collision masks can detect when the mouse collides with them.
Now ...
