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  • Ok, so after reading a bunch of different posts and tutorials on this matter(eg. Supporting multiple screen sizes) I've made a decision.

    I'm gonna use Scale outer mode + landscape orentation for my game, since the way I design it it won't be a problem is the player sees more. However that still leaves a few questions so I can make this work properly, please help if you can.

    1. What is the biggest size iOS device(iphone/ipad) on the market at the moment?

    2. What is the most common size for iphones/ipads(and if possible which iOS version/s correspund with this size)?

    3. How do I center my layouts so that they scale out from the center instead of pos 0, 0?

    4. Where do I set the orentation? By landscape orentation I mean the player has to hold his device horizontaly and the game runs from right to left, or am I understanding this function wrong?

    Thank you.

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  • 1/2. : Google is your friend...

    Nowadays, it seems to be the iphone 5 that is the most common, with a screen resolution of 320x568. The link will give you all the details.

    3. : on start of layout=> set scroll to X/Y

    X and Y should then be calculated based on the current displayed resolution

    4. : not sure for this one but I would say that if you only do landscape, use the System.set layout angle action to put it to 90�

  • Cool, thank you very much.

    One more thing, is there any way to edit the "Scroll to" behavior so that the camera only follows the player on the X axis(or substitue some events to achieve this)?

    I know I could just make the player static and have the background scroll, but from what I remember reading in another post that has some problems when using scale outer mode.

  • VIKINGS

    then don't use "Scroll to" behavior. Instead of it, maybe there's an action about scrolling screen with xy coordinate.

  • I know there is shaircast, but like I said, that might cause problems with scale outer mode...

  • VIKINGS : I think he was thinking about the System>Scroll to position Action, which does the same as the scrollTo behaviour

  • I tried, doesn't work. I found this post on making a smooth camera using the "lerp" expression. Any idea how I should modify it so it only follows my player on the X axis, ignoring the up and down movements he does?

    In case you need the info, at the moment my player moves 1 pixel every tick, but that may change in harder levels.

    scirra.com/tutorials/626/making-a-smooth-following-camera

  • Bump.

  • Well, in this tutorial, there is an event :

    Keep the X as it is, and don't change the Y (put "Self.Y" in the Y slot, or a constant).

    Even if there is no scroll on Y, you have to choose at what Y the camera is.

  • system every tick - system scrollto player.x, 350 (or whatever other y suits you)

  • Yes!!! LittleStain is right, so simple, can't believe I didn' think of it! Thank you very much mate.

    Thank you too Guizmus, but it looks like I don't need to bother with lerp for now. Still good to know, I'll save it, might come in handy later on.

  • Cool, I will check it out, thank you.

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