The ability to make the background in Letterbox Scale tranparent

I would love to be able to make the background in the letterbox scale mode transparent. The reason is that I really like how the letterbox scale mode centres the game on the screen.

Letterbox scale is the best option IMO. However, if you could make the background transparent, you could see the objects around the viewport.

Sizing your game is always one of the hardest things to do as a developer.

It would also be great if we could access the background color programmatically.

I have been prototyping some games and I think if these two features were added, it would make the gaming experience much better.

"Scale inner" fullscreen mode essentially extends the viewport to fill the bars in letterbox scale mode, which sounds like what you want?

The scale inner doesn't work exactly the same way as what I am describing.

A transparent background would be the best solution.

I don't understand what you mean, then. The game is displayed over the background. So if you make the background transparent, what do you expect to see under it?

Take a look at this.

imgur.com/a/YD13nEo

I think if we could make the background transparent, it would make sizing on all screens really easy.

w3schools.com/tags/att_body_background.asp

I don't know what to tell you, because as far as I can tell, "Scale outer" is exactly what you're asking for. It's already there!

I see what you mean.

Is it possible to center the scale outer? Right now it's pushed to the left.

imgur.com/a/MuCa4wL

Is there a way to do that?

The layout scroll bounds are probably interfering with the larger viewport. Try enabling unbounded scrolling for the layout.

Thanks for all of your help. That works!