Hey friends,
So I've put together a simple game because I wanted something that ran on my phone - it spawns tiles, you click/tap the tiles, good times.
The problem I'm having is this: my phone (Galaxy S4) defaults to an unchangeable resolution of 1920x1080 (aka 1080p). As such, the tiles and fonts - which look fine on PC at the default 800x600 - are tiny on the phone.
My current workaround is to simply triple the size of the tiles and font if the game is running on Android (not with scaling - I tried that first, it made most text get drawn off screen).
It's 4:40am and I'm not much for math, so I was wondering if anyone could suggest an algorithm for appropriate font sizing/tile scaling to suit a variety of resolutions.
Love file attached, or find it here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/512 ... tapv1.love
Similarly, the Android APK can be found here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/512 ... etapv1.apk
Font Scaling
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- Prole
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Font Scaling
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Re: Font Scaling
love.window.getPixelScale() is what you need.
Re: Font Scaling
How does that help? And isn't it enough to just check what the resolution is with love.window.getHeight and love.window.getWidth?Joemag wrote:love.window.getPixelScale() is what you need.
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Re: Font Scaling
It is used to display graphics at a size the user is expecting.T-Bone wrote:How does that help? And isn't it enough to just check what the resolution is with love.window.getHeight and love.window.getWidth?Joemag wrote:love.window.getPixelScale() is what you need.
Its better than getWidth and getHeight because for example my nexus 5 has a higher resolution than my nexus 7 but the screen is smaller.
And there are devices that have bigger screens and a higher resolution.
So it depends on the density and not on the resolution.
The best font size would for example be:
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12*love.window.getPixelScale()
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- Prole
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Re: Font Scaling
I saw that method in the documentation and immediately assumed it was for dealing with retina displays. It works perfectly for this situation! Thanks, mate!
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