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### #ActualSimonForsman

Posted 25 October 2013 - 08:21 AM

OK, I'll give this a shot. I have to see it in action and the same settings for different resolutions as I can't picture how it would exactly look in terms of size (I get position) in my head. I get that you'd get more clean space but for some reason I feel like that's not ideal. I feel like trying to closely match the screen space volume the UI takes up on all screen resolutions is ideal but maybe it's just not possible.

What is res.x & res.y? Resolution x & y would be 0's wouldn't they or are you assuming the positioning was done before this code and res.x and res.y represent the top-center point?

so if you place a 0.5 units wide and 0.1 unit high healthbar 0.05 units down and 0.25 units to the left (to compensate for its width) from the top-center you just draw it at:

x = res.x / 2 + (-0.25 * res.y) //not a typo, we always multiply with the vertical resolution, the horizontal resolution only affects the origin position
y = 0 + (0.05 * res.y) 

So the size formula in the above situation would be: width = .5 * res.width & .1 * res.width?

So basically all controls have to be given a starting point of either the edges, corners, or center and then these units are offsets from that?

res.x = resolution on the x axis (or resolution width).

as for the size formula: multiply by height rather than width (otherwise things get bigger on a widescreen)

you could also multiply by whichever of width and height is smallest to handle vertical displays as well. (otherwise objects would get very big on vertical displays which you probably don't want)

### #1SimonForsman

Posted 25 October 2013 - 08:19 AM

OK, I'll give this a shot. I have to see it in action and the same settings for different resolutions as I can't picture how it would exactly look in terms of size (I get position) in my head. I get that you'd get more clean space but for some reason I feel like that's not ideal. I feel like trying to closely match the screen space volume the UI takes up on all screen resolutions is ideal but maybe it's just not possible.

What is res.x & res.y? Resolution x & y would be 0's wouldn't they or are you assuming the positioning was done before this code and res.x and res.y represent the top-center point?

so if you place a 0.5 units wide and 0.1 unit high healthbar 0.05 units down and 0.25 units to the left (to compensate for its width) from the top-center you just draw it at:

x = res.x / 2 + (-0.25 * res.y) //not a typo, we always multiply with the vertical resolution, the horizontal resolution only affects the origin position
y = 0 + (0.05 * res.y) 

So the size formula in the above situation would be: width = .5 * res.width & .1 * res.width?

So basically all controls have to be given a starting point of either the edges, corners, or center and then these units are offsets from that?

res.x = resolution on the x axis (or resolution width).

as for the size formula: multiply by height rather than width (otherwise things get bigger on a widescreen)

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