Back to General and Gameplay Programming

GUI aspect ratio independence

rpiller · 2013-10-30T19:46:18

I'm making a 2D GUI for my game. I get screen resolution independence by using percentages for x, y & width, height for the controls relative to it's parent container where the top level is the entire screen. This helps make my GUI look exactly the same on all resolutions of the same aspect ratio. Now I want to make it aspect ratio independent so that I don't have to make my screens per aspect ratio. So when I initially make the GUI, I use a base screen res/aspect ratio to get it to look just right. I want to take this base and make it look the same (positioning and sizing) on any resolution the player selects for the game. What is the math on something like that?

General and Gameplay Programming Programming

Started by rpiller October 25, 2013 01:09 AM

19 comments, last by rpiller 10 years, 5 months ago

rpiller

838

Author

October 30, 2013 07:46 PM

Anyone have ideas on how to handle dynamic text controls (like a label control) to get text to "scale"? The engine I'm using uses TTF where you specify the font size. Since scaling fonts generally look horrible I don't think drawing to bitmap then scaling would work very well. Any algo to find best font size to use based on control, height I guess it would be? As I'm typing this it almost seems like control height would maybe dictate the size of the font. Anything else to think about?