changing the size of the gray

Hello users.

My name is Alastair Jack. I would like to ask if you can increase the amount of "gray area" (or offscreen area) around the layout? Would you know if this possible to perform? I desire to place more objects outside the frame without crowding myself too much.

Yours sincerly, Alastair.

ps. sorry for my english, I'm from Australia.

You can close the properties, object and right sidebars. Or just double click on the header to make them dock-able.

that does not increase the size of the gray area, that only widens your view of the layout.

"Control + mousewheel Zoom in/out. "

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/construct/index.php?title=Keyboard_shortcuts#Layout_editor_shortcuts

If that's not what your looking for, then your on your own, cause I don't know nothing bout changing the laws of physics.

you could set the playarea to 10 by 10

Hello users.

My name is Alastair Jack. I would like to ask if you can increase the amount of "gray area" (or offscreen area) around the layout? Would you know if this possible to perform? I desire to place more objects outside the frame without crowding myself too much.

Yours sincerly, Alastair.

ps. sorry for my english, I'm from Australia.

I think, that newt is right - you may zoom-in / zoom-out, so you can increase the grey area. And your layout will be in the left higher corner. The rest place are ready for your objects.

Or you may just create a new layer, insert there something that you want and - when necessary - show or hide layer to use objects from that layer.

P.S. "sorry for my english, I'm from Australia". Nice joke!

so the answer is no, you can't increase the gray area, thanks anyway.

CTRL + ZOOM OUT (Mousewheel) is what I think you're looking for. I'm not sure where you got "no" from.

I think the extra layers was a pretty good idea. Plus its pretty easy to put the objects wherever you want during run time.

Might even be a cool idea for Construct 2 to have a way to hide objects via folders.

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I do get what your talking about. You basically want a way to increase the padding area which unfortunately, is the opposite of how it was built.

Hey put in a suggestion in for C2, the devs might just do it.

I would prefer a setup similar to GameMaker to be completely honest. Objects can be defined, but don't 'exist' unless you specifically place them on the screen. When making a big game having all those objects floating in the nether is a bit distracting.