[SUGGESTION] Aspect Ratio support

For example:

if Aspect Ratio 4:3 then set Object position to X1, Y1

if Aspect Ratio 16:9 then set Object position to X2, Y2

Could be useful, I think

You can already do this using the Browser object's expressions to calculate the aspect ratio yourself, or the scale inner/scale outer fullscreen modes with carefully designed layouts. I don't think there needs to be a new feature for it.

Ashley

Perhaps a bit off topic, but why isn't a "stretch" mode possible or important enough to be implemented for the scaling modes? By "stretch" i mean, that the exact area of the layout you define in the layout editor would be shown, just stretched over all of the available screen space.

I could see this being extremely helpful for mobile applications, where you have to deal with a surprisingly wide variety of screen resolutions and aspect ratios. Or i could just be honest and say that this feature would help numerous lazy developers in making a game, without having to worry about the part of layout that's visible to user (moving/scaling GUI elements is a pain in a certain place i shall not name) or black bars around the screen (e.g. wasted space that looks unprofessional), at the expense of slight visual artifacts, such as round objects being elliptic...

pls respond

Surely not? It looks horrible. And technically it's distortion and is regarded as a fault. I think letterboxing is far better than an ugly stretch.

szymek

I've had the same "problem" ... I wanted to mentein the game's scale the same regarding the aspect ratio or resolution. The solution was quite simple (no math involved <img src="smileys/smiley4.gif" border="0" align="middle">). More info:

http://www.scirra.com/forum/topic79444.html

Also, you can do what you want by calculating the aspect ratio yourself:

http://www.scirra.com/forum/topic79392.html

Ashley

Is there a way to change the scale mode during gameplay ? For example: I use Scale Outer, but if the layer is smaller than the Window Size, than change to Scale Inner.